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Newsletter Nr. 1.441
Amsterdam, November 7, 2025


David Chalmers on Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem - With Special Attention on Bernardo Kastrup - Frank Visser / Grok

David Chalmers' paper argues that idealism—the view that the universe is fundamentally mental, with all concrete facts grounded in mental facts—represents a viable, if imperfect, solution to the mind-body problem. He positions idealism as the culmination of a philosophical progression: starting from materialism (which fails to account for consciousness's irreducibility), moving to dualism (which struggles with causal closure), and panpsychism (which posits mentality at the micro-level but faces combination issues), and arriving at idealism as a unified monism. 

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Mapping the Philosophy of Mind -  From Spectrum to 3D Model - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Philosophy of mind has always been haunted by the problem of structure: how best to map the competing views of mind and matter, subject and object, consciousness and the physical world. The field is notoriously pluralistic—materialists, dualists, idealists, panpsychists, neutral monists, and functionalists coexist uneasily, each claiming to solve the “hard problem” or to dissolve it. But beneath this cacophony lies a meta-question: how should we visualize the landscape of positions?

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