what Jane Bennett calls vital materialism: the recognition that “vitality is shared by all things,” and not limited to ourselves alone (Bennett 2010, 89).
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non-dualistic neo-vitalism, or what Jane Bennett calls vital materialism: the idea that “every thing is entelechial, life-ly, vitalistic” (Bennett 2010, 89)
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Graham Harman, expanding Heidegger’s concept readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit), calls tool-being (Harman 2002).
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As Jane Bennett puts it, “maybe it is worth running the risks associated with anthropomorphism (superstition, the divinization of nature, romanticism) because it, oddly enough, works against anthropocentrism: a chord is struck between person and thing, and I am no longer above or outside a nonhuman ‘environment.’
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David Skrbina has argued at great and persuasive length, panpsychism has a long history
in, and is deeply embedded within, Western thought (Skrbina 2005).
panpsychism has recently come to be entertained by thinkers of various persuasions,
including analytic philosophers like Galen Strawson (2006) and to some extent David Chalmers (1997).
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GET Harman, Graham (2002). Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court.
GET Jones, Gwyneth (2010). The Universe of Things. Seattle: Aqueduct Press.
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Cambridge: MIT Press.
OK Skrbina, David (2005). Panpsychism in the West. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Strawson, Galen (2006). “Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism.”
In: Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail
Panpsychism? Ed. by Anthony Freeman. Exeter: Imprint Academic, pp. 3–31.
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