Panpsychism on the Reef

Island Information

See Lady Elliot Island website and especially the FAQ.

Participants

• David Chalmers (ANU)
• Sam Coleman (Hertfordshire)
• Liane Gabora (British Columbia)
• Philip Goff (ANU/Liverpool)
• Geoff Lee (UC Berkeley)
• Pat Lewtas (American University of Beirut)
• Michelle Montague (Bristol/Texas)
• Hedda Hassel Morch (Oslo)
• Brentyn Ramm (ANU)
• Gregg Rosenberg
• Jonathan Simon (ANU)
• Galen Strawson (Reading/Texas)
• Keith Turausky (Texas)

• David Chalmers, Panpsychism, emergence, and Russellian monism
• Philip Goff, Why panpsychism doesn't help us explain consciousness
• William James, The mind-stuff theory
• Galen Strawson, Realistic monism: Why physicalism entails panpsychism?

• Pierfrancesco Basile, Some remarks on panpsychism and mental composition
• Michael Blamauer, Taking the hard problem of consciousness seriously: Dualism, panpsychism and the origin of the combination problem
• David Chalmers, Consciousness and its place in nature
• Sam Coleman, Mental chemistry: Combination for panpsychists
• Anthony Collins, Answer to Clarke's third defense (esp. sections 16-24)
• Shan Gao, Quantum, consciousness, and panpsychism: A solution to the hard problem
• Philip Goff, Experiences don't sum
• Philip Goff, Can panpsychism get around the combination problem?
• Philip Goff, There is no combination problem
• Philip Goff, From Mind to World chapters 5, 6, 7, 8.
• David Ray Griffin, Panexperientialist physicalism and the mind-body problem
• Stuart Hameroff and Jonathan Powell, A psycho-physical bridge between brain and pan-experiential quantum geometry
• Graham Harman, Zero-person and the psyche
• Tam Hunt, Kicking the psychophysical laws into gear: A new approach to the combination problem
• Patrick Lewtas, What is it like to be a quark?
• Michael Lockwood, The grain problem
• Grover Maxwell, Rigid designators and mind-brain identity
• Luke Roelofs, How to combine experiential subjects
• Gregg Rosenberg, Summary of A Place for Consciousness
• Gregg Rosenberg, The theory of natural individuals
• William Seager, Panpsychism, aggregation, and combinatorial infusion
• William Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson, Panpsychism
• Itay Shani, Mind stuffed with red herrings
• David Skrbina, Panpsychism
• Galen Strawson, Panpsychism? Reply to commentators with a celebration of Descartes
• Galen Strawson, Selves excerpts 1, 2, 3.
• Keith Turausky, Contemporary panpsychism: Varieties and vagaries
• Ken Wilber, Waves, streams, states, and self

• Sam Coleman, The real combination problem: Panpsychism, microsubjects, and emergence
• Philip Goff, Inflationary forms of Russellian monism / The multiple location hypothesis
• Liane Gabora, Amplifying phenomenal information
• Patrick Lewtas, Building minds: Solving the combination problem
• Gregg Rosenberg, Causality and the combination problem

Friday, July 20

1:30pm Arrive Lady Elliot Island (on 1pm flight from Hervey Bay)

4pm David Chalmers, The combination problem for panpsychism (and opening discussion)

Saturday, July 21

Morning: Glass-bottomed boat tour

1:30pm Galen Strawson, Facing down the combination problem

3:15pm Philip Goff, Inflationary forms of Russellian monism / The multiple location hypothesis

5pm Liane Gabora, Amplifying phenomenal information

Sunday, July 22

1:30pm Sam Coleman, The real combination problem: Panpsychism, microsubjects, and emergence

3:15pm Michelle Montague, Subjectivity and panpsychism

5pm Geoff Lee, Phenomenal deflationism and the combination problem

Monday, July 23

1:30pm Gregg Rosenberg, Causality and the combination problem

3:15pm Hedda Morch, The causal theory of panpsychist combination

5pm Jon Simon, Mixed feelings about the combination problem: A defense of quasi-constitutive panpsychism

Tuesday, July 24

1:30pm Pat Lewtas, Building minds: Solving the combination problem

3:15pm Brentyn Ramm, Panperspectivism and the compounding of consciousness

5pm Keith Turausky, Picturing panpsychism

Wednesday, July 25

1-3pm: Closing discussion

4pm: Depart Lady Elliot Island (arrive Bundaberg 4:30pm)