RT Article
T1 Personhood, consciousness, and god: how to be a proper pantheist
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 85
IS 1
SP 77
OP 98
A1 Coleman, Sam
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663421323
AB In this paper I develop a theory of personhood which leaves open the possibility of construing the universe as a person. If successful, it removes one bar to endorsing pantheism. I do this by examining a rising school of thought on personhood, on which persons, or selves, are understood as identical to episodes of consciousness. Through a critique of this experiential approach to personhood, I develop a theory of self as constituted of qualitative mental contents, but where these contents are also capable of unconscious existence. On this theory, though we can be conscious of our selves, consciousness turns out to be inessential to personhood. This move, I then argue, provides resources for responding to the pantheist's problem of God's person.
K1 Consciousness
K1 God
K1 Panentheism
K1 Panpsychism
K1 Panqualityism
K1 Pantheism
K1 Personhood
K1 Russellian monism
K1 Self
K1 Unconscious
DO 10.1007/s11153-018-9689-7