 Panpsychism is widely taken to provide a possible answer to the mind-body problem and the by now (merely repetitive) reiteration of Lotze’s commitment to panpsychism is easy to document. The fact that Lotze said praiseworthy things about his former teacher, Fechner, after the latter’s mental breakdown, is usually highlighted and we are informed that “Lotze’s main criticism of Fechner is that he is not bold enough … there were deeper metaphysical reasons for thinking that all reality is alive” (Beiser, 2013, p. 235). But this approach forces us to take Lotze’s equivocal statements at face value when there are numerous clear indications that we should not.