In existographies, David Skrbina (c.1969-) is an American philosopher, focused on panpsychism and environmental ethics, noted for []
Panpsychists
In 2005, Skrbina, in his Panpsychism in the West, classified the following: Gustav Fechner, Friedrich Schelling, William Clifford, Paul Carus, Empedocles, Epicurus, William Gilbert, William James, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl von Nageli, Josiah Royce (mentor to John Boodin), and the Stoics, each of whom were read and cited by Charles Peirce, as western panpsychists. [1]
Skrbina also discusses (Ѻ) Bernard Rensch (1900-1990) (Ѻ), who, supposedly, argued the following, as summarized by Theodosius Dobzhansky (1967): [3]
“… embedded in a continuous stream of consciousness.” The evolutionary continuum extends, however, down to the inorganic realm; hence, molecules and atoms should “also be credited with basic parallel components of some kind.” Rejecting all forms of vitalism, Rensch concludes, “since all …”
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Education
Skrbina completed his MA in mathematics in 1993 at the university of Michigan, his PhD in philosophy in 2001 at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and presently is professor of philosophy, with focus on philosophy of mind, at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. [2]
Quotes | Employed
The following are quotes employed by Skrbina:
“All things are animate in varying degrees.”
— Benedict Spinoza (1674), “Letter to Schuller”; cited by David Skrbina (2017), in Panpsychism in the West (pg. 142)
“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been catapulted though the air had consciousness, it would think that it was flying of its own will. I only add that the stone would be right. That catapulting is for the stone what the motive is for me.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), The World as Will and Representation (pg. #); cited by David Skrbina (2017), in Panpsychism in the West (pg. 142)
“The will is manifest in every force of nature that operates blindly, and it is manifest, too, in the deliberate action of man; and the great difference between these two is a matter only of degree of the manifestation, not in the nature of that is made manifest.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), The World as Will and Representation (pg. #); cited by David Skrbina (2017), in Panpsychism in the West (pg. 142)
Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Skrbina:
“Panpsychism is a very naturalistic approach to mind. To me, it’s not a divine god-given sense of mind. It’s not some mysterious ‘mind’ popping out of nowhere. It’s a mind that was at the root of nature all along from the very beginning.”
— David Skrbina (2011), “What is Eco-Philosophy” (Ѻ), Nov 8
References
1. (a) Skrbina, David. (2005). Panpsychism in the West (thermodynamics, pgs. 13, 151; panpsychist philosophers, pg. 155). MIT Press.
(b) Skrbina, David. (2017). Panpsychism in the West: Revised Edition (Carus, 4+ pgs; panbiotism, pg. 14; read by Peirce, pg. 190). MIT Press.
2. David Frank Skrbina (curriculum vitae) – Umich.app.box.com.
3. Dobzhansky, Theodosius. (1967). The Biology of Ultimate Concerns (molecules, 12+ pgs; quote, pg. 28). New American Library.
External links
● David Skrbina (faculty) – University of Michigan-Dearborn.
