This volume, originally a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, uses the recent writings of Philip Goff as a jumping-off point for discussions of panpsychism — the idea that consciousness is a fundamental and pervasive aspect of our universe that cannot be understood in other, more basic, terms. The contributors to this book explore various issues of panpsychism from the perspectives of science, philosophy, and theology. Some papers focus on further motivating and developing the panpsychist position. Others explore various challenges that the panpsychist faces. Collectively, they shed new and important light not only on panpsychism, but on the fundamental question of the place of consciousness in nature more generally.

Authors include Damian Aleksiev, Sean Carroll, Marina Cortês, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, Chris Fields, Keith Frankish, Philip Goff, Annaka Harris, Christof Koch, Sarah Lane Ritchie, Joanna Leidenhag, Michelle Liu, Alex Moran, Alyssa Ney, Robert Prentner, Luke Roelofs, Carlo Rovelli, Anil Seth, Lee Smolin, Galen Strawson, Clelia Verde, and Ralph Weir.

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