Abraham Maslow, who is known as the philosophical father of transpersonal psychology, first introduced the term to the public at a conference held in San Francisco in 1967. Maslow promoted the concept of the highest human development needs and the idea of "self-actualization." He also noted that humanistic psychology played a transitional role to transpersonal psychology. The aim of our...
The “inconsistent tetrad” refers to the four propositions commonly used in the philosophy of mind to address the issue of the mind-body relation. As the name suggests, although each of these propositions may individually be true, only three of them can be true at the same time, while one must always be false. For instance: 1) The soul is a non-material substance; 2) The body is a material...