5 papers in the library · 65 citations · publishing 2010-2026
Handbook of Transformative Philosophy 2026 Rick Repetti
This chapter explores the concept of awareness: what it is, why it is philosophically problematic, and how it is presupposed in almost everything that matters to people. This chapter has three parts. The first part explores the history of the transformative power of awareness in the West. The second part employs analytic philosophy to explore meanings and problems of defining awareness and...
Interdisciplinary Research in Counseling Ethics and Philosophy - IRCEP December 24, 2025 John Vervaeke, Rick Repetti, Christopher Mastropietro et al.
In this paper we focus on describing two group philosophical practices, Dialectic into Dialogos (“DiD”) and the Socratic Search Space (“SSS”) (“these two practices”). In the discourse domain of philosophical practice, the closest analogue for purposes of contrastive understanding of these two practices is Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue (“NSD”). NSD aspires to reach consensus by extracting a...
Filozofija i drustvo 2025 Rick Repetti
This prolegomenon sketches issues central to a philosophy of meditation, develops only some of them here, and refers readers to other works where some not covered here are addressed. A complete philosophy of meditation would include accounts of: the differences between meditative practices, states, and traits; religion-based meditative traditions; novel contemporary meditative practices and...
Mindfulness in behavioral health 2016 Rick Repetti 27 citations
A critical reply to the anti-mindfulness critics in the collection, who oppose the popular secularized adoption of mindfulness on various grounds (it is not Buddhism, it is Buddhism, it is a tool of neo-capitalist exploitation, etc.), I argue that mindfulness is a quality of consciousness, opposite mindlessness, that may be cultivated through practice, and is almost always beneficial to those...
New Directions for Community Colleges September 1, 2010 Rick Repetti 38 citations
Abstract This chapter introduces contemplative practices, studies, and pedagogy and argues in support of a contemplative pedagogy.