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Kuznetsov A.
First pub. in: Вестник Московского университета. Серия 7, Философия. – 2015.
The paper presents one of the contemporary theories of consciousness –
a constitutive panpsychism of David Chalmers. Suggestion of
protophenomenal properties intends to reconcile the dualistic intuition
with the naturalistic view of the world, to close the «explanatory gap».
At the heart of this movement is an attempt to solve the problem of
mental causation, for it raises the main difficulties in understanding
how the acts of consciousness are placed among physical events, being
the source of the crisis for any dualistic conception. But, as I’m
trying to show, an attempt to solve the problem of mental causation
leads to the denial of the foundation of constitutive panpsychism – the
identity of the primary and secondary intensions of the term
«consciousness», which is, perhaps, the only one strict bases of the
anti-physicalist arguments.
