# Panpsychism William Seager **Keywords:** panpsychism, status of matter, status of mind, mental properties, metaphysics, structure of reality **Abstract:** and Keywords Panpsychism endorses the co-fundamental status of matter and mind in so far as it allows there are features of the world which are non-mental. Panpsychism is also not generally a YLHZLQZKLFKPHQWDOLW\LVWDNHQDV‫ކ‬VXEVWDQWLDO‫އ‬,WLVPRUHQDWXUDOWRUHJDUGSDQSV\FKLVP as expressing the view that, roughly speaking, everything exemplifies certain mental properties. However, it is an important and distinctive claim of many panpsychists that WKH‫ކ‬REMHFWSURSHUW\‫އ‬PHWDSK\VLFVZHWDNHIRUJUDQWHGLVIXQGDPHQWDOO\PLVWDNHQDQG must be replaced with another metaphysical vision of the basic structure of reality. **Authors:** [[Oxford Handbooks Online]]