panpsychist

English

Etymology

From panpsychism + -ist.

Adjective

panpsychist (comparative more panpsychist, superlative most panpsychist)

  1. Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
    • 1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1,
      Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work.
    • 2003, Freya Mathews, For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, SUNY Press, page 110:
      Meditational practices are quite consistent with, and even conducive to, a panpsychist outlook, but the aim of panpsychism is not to attain enlightenment.
    • 2019, Jennifer McWeeny, The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology, Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik (editors), Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, SUNY Press, page 138,
      However, seeds have been planted for a panpsychist reading in the suggestion that in order to truly move beyond the consciousness-object distinction Merleau-Ponty's ontology would need to be more panpsychist than those of Leibniz and Scheler, not less.

Noun

panpsychist (plural panpsychists)

  1. A proponent of panpsychism.
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