{"product_id":"in-defence-of-cosmopsychism-9781350508613","title":"In Defence of Cosmopsychism: A Fundamental Approach to the Problem of Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Is the cosmos itself conscious, and could our minds be aspects of its vast, overarching consciousness?\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; In this ambitious and original study, Khai Wager defends \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;cosmopsychism\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, the view that the universe as a whole is conscious and that individual minds like ours derive from this cosmic consciousness. Wager situates cosmopsychism within what he calls the \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;landscape of fundamental consciousness\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, bringing it into productive dialogue with closely related views such as panpsychism, panqualityism, and perennialism. The result is a fresh perspective on one of philosophy’s deepest puzzles: the nature and origin of consciousness.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The problem of phenomenal consciousness asks how subjective experience can emerge from non-conscious matter. Fundamental approaches reject the idea that consciousness arises from non-conscious matter, instead proposing that it is present at the most basic level of reality. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Panpsychism\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;—the most prominent such view—holds that all fundamental microphysical entities are conscious. This, however, leads to the \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;combination problem\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;: how do billions of micro-level minds combine to form distinct macro-level minds like ours? Cosmopsychism offers a radical alternative: rather than being formed from a combination of micro-level instances of consciousness, individual minds are partial aspects of a larger, cosmic-level consciousness. As a result, cosmopsychism sidesteps the combination problem entirely. Yet this gives rise to a new and equally pressing challenge—the \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;derivation problem\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;: how are individual minds derived from the cosmic consciousness?\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Through rigorous and insightful analysis, Wager argues that cosmopsychism can navigate these problems and offers a compelling alternative to both physicalism and panpsychism. As such, this first book-length treatment of cosmopsychism makes an illuminating contribution to debates about the deep structure of reality and our place within it.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781350508613\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dr Khai Wager","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50078095147258,"sku":"9781350508613","price":90.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781350508613.jpg?v=1786813863","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/in-defence-of-cosmopsychism-9781350508613","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}