Recommended readings

In progress! I get many requests for reading recommendations so here are my general ones. Use Google or Philpapers to search for links/pdfs when missing

Introductory readings

Consciousness/philosophy of mind 

Nagel: “What is it like to be a bat?”

McGinn: “Can we solve the mind-body problem?”

Chalmers: “Facing up to the problem of consciousness”

Chalmers: “Consciousness and its place in nature”

Montero & Papineau: “Naturalism and physicalism” 

Mørch: Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Panpsychism

Mørch: “Is Matter Conscious?”

Strawson: “Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism”

Nagel: “Panpsychism”

Chalmers: “Panpsychism and panprotopsychism”

Graeber: “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?”

Advanced readings

History of panpsychism

Skrbina: Panpsychism in the West         

William James: Principles of Psychology, especially chapter 6 (The mind-stuff theory)
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/james/william/principles/complete.html#chapter6

Hartshorne: “Physics and psychics: the place of mind in nature”
http://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/hartshornemind-in-nature/

Schopenhauer: The world as will and representation, especially Vol. 1, Book II, §17- §24

Leibniz: “A New System of Nature”, “Monadology”, “Principles of nature and grace”, “Letter to Remond 1714 (addendum)”

Panpsychism

Seager: “The intrinsic nature argument for panpsychism”

Alter and Nagasawa: “What is Russellian monism?”

Goff, Seager and Allen-Hermanson: “Panpsychism” (in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Chalmers: “The combination problem for panpsychism”

Chalmers: “Idealism and the mind-body problem”

Goff: “Why panpsychism doesn’t help us explain consciousness” + “The phenomenal bonding solution to the combination problem” 

Goff: Consciousness and fundamental reality

Robert Adams: “Idealism vindicated”

Lockwood: “The grain problem”

Tononi: “The Integrated Information Theory: A provisional manifesto” [not the most recent version of IIT, but one of the most philosophically perspicuous papers on it]

Tononi and Koch: “Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?”

The connection to structural realism

Chalmers: “The Matrix as metaphysics”

Stoljar: “Two conceptions of the physical” 

Maxwell: “Structural realism and the meaning of theoretical terms”

Blackburn: “Filling in space”

Consciousness

Strawson: “What is the relation between an experience, the subject of the experience, and the content of the experience”

Strawson: Selves + Freedom and Belief + Real Materialism and Other Essays [contains all previously mentioned papers]

Chalmers: “Perception and the fall from Eden”

Chalmers: The Character of Consciousness [contains “Perception” and other papers]

Chalmers and Bayne: “What is the unity of consciousness?”

Hoel: “Fiction in the Age of Screens”

Physicalism

Chalmers: “Consciousness and its place in nature”

Goff: “How a posteriori physicalists get our phenomenal concepts wrong”

Montero: “What does the conservation of energy have to do with physicalism?” + Koksvik: “Conservation of energy is relevant to physicalism”

On work

Valian: “Learning to work”

Montero: “Against flow”