ABSTRACT
There was a time when reductive physicalism was the default position in philosophy of mind and philosophical naturalism, with scientific materialism as its handmaiden, constrained philosophical thought and reigned with presumption as the “scientific view” of the world. Thankfully, those days have passed. Quantum physics, as a model for what science generally aspires to be, has irremediably problematized and undermined materialist conceits, and many philosophers of mind, stumbling on the hard problem of consciousness, have wandered off the materialist reservation: finding non-reductive physicalism inadequate, they have sought shelter in property dualism and, still dissatisfied, have wandered farther, exploring panpsychist ontologies in increasing numbers.
