Pantheism as Panpsychism

Pfeifer, Karl

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198722250.003.0003

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“…So, endorsing collective pantheism does not close the door on distributive pantheism. Karl Pfeifer (2016) approximates such a view given that he takes "God" to be a mass noun that acts like "gold." Just as "wherever gold is found it is wholly gold, not just part of gold" it is the case that "everything (the whole) is [God] and [God] somehow exists in everything (each of the parts)" (Pfeifer 2016, 43;cf.…”

Section: Further Distinctionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Pantheism

Buckareff

2022

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This Element focuses on some core conceptual and ontological issues related to pantheistic conceptions of God by engaging with recent work in analytic philosophy of religion on this topic. The conceptual and ontological commitments of pantheism are contrasted with those of other conceptions of God. The concept of God assumed by pantheism is clarified and the question about what type of unity the universe must exhibit in order to be identical with God receives the most attention. It is argued that the sort of unity the universe must display is the sort of unity characteristic of conscious cognitive systems. Some alternative ontological frameworks for grounding such cognitive unity are considered. Further, the question of whether God can be understood as personal on pantheism is explored.

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Section: Further Distinctionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Some philosophers have built upon a powers ontology to make sense of pantheistic unity (see Bauer 2019, Buckareff 2019, and Pfeifer 2016. The accounts offered by these authors may best be characterized as panprotopsychist solutions that rest on a panintentionalist thesis that results from the presupposed account of properties.…”

Section: A Powers-based Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pantheism

Buckareff

2022

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“…Oakes also reads Garrigou-Lagrange's Thomist exegesis as saying that '[a pantheistic God] is the 'ground' or 'foundation' of the universe' [Oakes 1977: 170]; Forrest [2016a: 71-72] believes C-COMPONENT entails panentheism (albeit not pantheism); Pfeifer [2016] argues that God stands to the universe as a mass substrate (e.g. a mass of gold) stands to an object (e.g.…”

Section: C-componentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not every pantheist thinks a commitment to IMPERSONAL is problematic [Forrest 1997;Harrison 2004;Levine 1994: 3-5;Mander 2016], either begrudgingly accepting it or more enthusiastically seeing it as a bonus feature of pantheism. But given I'm trying to keep God's personhood, I'm putting myself alongside such pantheists as Forrest [2016], Pfeifer [2016], the Stoics [Baltzly 2003], and Sinclair [Thomas 2019], who all attempt to allow for a pantheistic personal God (see also Hewitt [2019]).…”

Section: Givenmentioning

confidence: 99%