Panpsychism, Emergentism and the Metaphysics of Causation

Abstract

This article uses causation to show that panpsychism and emergentism share far less than most philosophers suppose. It argues that panpsychism has features, among them its rationalism, that force what the article calls a strong account of causation. And that emergentism entails what the article calls a weak account of causation incompatible with any strong account. The article then ventures that panpsychism and emergentism form parts of two wide-ranging but incompatible metaphysical packages. © 2016 The Author Pacific Philosophical Quarterly © 2016 University of Southern California and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.