(2019-02-23, 02:48 AM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: I think there is also value in Gregg Rosenberg's Liberal Naturalism as described in his A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World, and some excerpts of his book can be found here along with a summary/interview/discussion on this blog.
Have now made my way through all of those links. Very interesting. I think the main question I'd have going into a deeper dive into the book (including for a start actually reading it!) is "What sort of ontological schema is being proposed?" In other words, I read in one of those links that Gregg rejects substance dualism, so I'd be interested to know what exactly he thinks the ontological nature of consciousness is, and especially in contrast to "matter" (if there is even a place for such a category as "matter" in his schema), and how panexperientialism (which I think I read he is advocating) differs from panpsychism and idealism.
More generally in the context of your response: yes, the "just so" picture of causation taken for granted by physicalism/materialism does very much need to be challenged, and more viable alternatives proposed, by thoughtful philosophers like this.