A Reply to S Siddharth’s ‘Against Phenomenal Bonding’

Abstract

In this journal S Siddharth has recently argued that the phenomenal bonding response to the subject summing argument for panpsychism is question begging, therefore we should reject constitutive forms of panpsychism. The argument specifically focuses on the proposals of Goff and Miller. In this reply, I show that the argument is unsound.

Keywords

• panpsychism
• combination problem
• phenomenal bonding
• subject summing
• combinationism
• S Siddharth