Definitions For Panpsychism

Noun

PANPSYCHISM (plural - or s) (philosophy, metaphysics, uncountable) The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect. (philosophy, metaphysics, countable) Any specific doctrine or system of panpsychism.

Usage notes

Strictly speaking, panpsychism is a very general term. Any ontology that takes mind or some quality of the mind as ubiquitous can be take as panpsychist. In contemporary usage, panpsychism is synonymous with panexperientialism rather than pancognitivism. Panexperientialists take experience of some form as ubiquitous, while pancognitivists take cognition in some as ubiquitous. The following terms may fall under or overlap with the concept of panpsychism, but are are distinct from the concept in everyday usage: animism (the supernaturalistic belief in a multitude of — more or less anthropomorphic — spirits animating the features of the world, characteristic of many traditional tribal religions pansensism and hylopathism doctrines that everything senses — very closely related to panpsychism hylozoism, panbiotism, and panzoism doctrines that all matter is intrinsically alive; their similarities with and distinctiveness from panpsychism chiefly centres on how the underlying concepts of “life” and “mentality” are defined panexperientialism the doctrine that everything experiences — “at present the most fully articulated form of panpsychism” {{w, David Skrbina}}, Panpsychism in the West, {{w, MIT Press}} (2005), {{ISBN, 9780262693516}}, page 21 pantheism and panentheism — doctrines that God or the Divine Principle “saturate” the Cosmos — in the former God is identical with the universe and every material thing is a part of God; in the latter God transcends the universe The doctrine of the world soul which states that the universe in its totality has a single unifying spirit — such a doctrine is usually panentheistic.

Related terms

panpsychist

Translations

Azerbaijani: panpsixizm Bulgarian: панпсихи́зъм, m Catalan: panpsiquisme, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 泛心論, tr=fànxīnlùn Dutch: panpsychisme Estonian: panpsühhism Finnish: panpsykismi French: panpsychisme, m German: Panpsychismus, m Greek: παμψυχισμός, m, παμψυχία, f Hungarian: pánpszichizmus Indonesian: panpsikisme Italian: panpsichismo, m Japanese: 汎心論 (はんしんろん, hanshinron, sc=Jpan) Latvian: panpsihisms, m Polish: panpsychizm, m Portuguese: panpsiquismo, m Romanian: panpsihism, n Russian: панпсихи́зм, m Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: панпсихизам, m : Roman: panpsihizam, m Slovak: panpsychizmus, m Spanish: pampsiquismo, m Swedish: panpsykism Ukrainian: панпсихі́зм, m

Alternative forms

{{alt, en, pampsychism}}

Etymology

"in full life" and (modern) {{cog, el, παμψυχισμός, , panpsychism}}.

See also

emergentism