77 papers in the library · 2,060 citations · publishing 1988-2026
Cambridge University Press eBooks November 19, 2020 Peter Franklin
Mahler, who had mobilized the youth of his day against slovenly Tradition, reerupted into a newly youthful popular culture in the 1960s thanks to both the centenary of his birth and the advent of the long-playing record. Not only musicians were touched by the wave of new recordings; modern pop culture and youthful “avant-garde” now blithely bridged the once-opposed realms of “high” and “low”...
Cambridge University Press eBooks February 21, 2019 Patrick Mcnamara
REM dreams and NREM dreams differ in terms of content and phenomenologies, these two dream types do not exhaust dream phenomenology. Relative to REM dreams, NREM dreams tend to be less story-like, bizarre, and contain fewer aggressive social interactions and greater numbers of friendly interactions, at least where the dreamer-initiated interactions are concerned.
Cambridge University Press eBooks November 29, 2018 Amber L. Griffioen, Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi
In this chapter, we examine a few potential problems when inquiring into the ethics of medieval Christian and Islamic mystical traditions: First, there are terminological and methodological worries about defining mysticism and doing comparative philosophy in general. Second, assuming that the Divine represents the highest Good in such traditions, and given the apophaticism on the part of many...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 25, 2017 Peter J. McKenna 7 citations
Delusions, in their many different manifestations, are central to the concepts of madness and psychosis. Yet what causes them remains in many ways a complete mystery. McKenna's Delusions is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle one of the most arresting phenomena in psychiatry: an in-depth and critical review of what delusions are, the forms they can take and how they might be explained...
Cambridge University Press eBooks September 22, 2014 J. Freer 129 citations
1. On the road to anti-structure: V., The Crying Lot 49 and the Beats 2. Love, violence and yippie subversion in Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon and the New Left 3. The psychedelic movement, fantasy and anarchism in The Crying Lot 49 and Against the Day 4. The Black Panther Party, revolutionary suicide and Gravity's Rainbow 5. Feminism moderate and radical in The Crying Lot 49 and Vineland: Pynchon...
Cambridge University Press eBooks 2014 J. Freer
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Cambridge University Press eBooks September 1, 2011 Jason Fleischer, Jeffrey L. McKinstry, David B. Edelman et al. 4 citations
Introduction Within the past few decades, the nature of consciousness has become a central issue in neuroscience, and it is increasingly the focus of both theoretical and empirical work. Studying consciousness is vital to developing an understanding of human perception and behavior, of our relationships with one another, and of our relationships with other potentially conscious animals....
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 14, 2011 Edward F. Pace‐Schott 3 citations
Among sleep stages, awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep produce the greatest number and reported intensity of dream reports. Dreaming is a conscious state that lacks the insight and cognitive control typical of healthy waking but allows the remarkable emergence of coherent narrative, vivid visual imagery, strong emotion, and sometimes never-before-experienced elements. Similar to...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 14, 2011 Birendra Nath Mallick, Asok Mukhopadhyay 2 citations
Dreams have been known to mankind from time immemorial, while rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) has been objectively defined by characteristic electrophysiological signals since the mid twentieth century only. In the absence of better objective criteria, modern experimental sleep neurobiologists have objectively identified the dream state of a subject with REMS; thus, the dream state and REMS...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 14, 2011 Milton Kramer 1 citation
The need to study dreaming is the promise that it will unlock the mystery of psychosis and perhaps contribute to resolving the mind–body problem. A number of questions arise in the study of dreams. Can dreams be reliably measured? Do dreams reflect differences where we know psychological differences exist? Do dreams change when there is a change in the state of the dreamer? Do dreams change...
Cambridge University Press eBooks May 12, 2011 Barry Windeatt 2 citations
It is a modern commonplace that the English fifteenth century – although an age of such flamboyant achievements in many of the arts – was a time of intellectual and spiritual repression, regulation and censorship, fearful of heresy and of innovation alike. Within this overstated larger picture of the age, modern assessment of contemplative life and literature in the fifteenth century becomes...
Cambridge University Press eBooks January 6, 2011 Wesley J. Wildman
INTRODUCTION From the earliest traces of human history to the present there have been technologies of religious and spiritual experience. This chapter is about the form these technologies are likely to take in the near and longer-range future, assuming continuous growth in scientific and cultural understanding rather than civilizational collapse and reversion to less technologized forms of...
Cambridge University Press eBooks September 23, 2010 Michael H. Silber
This chapter discusses the case of a 56-year-old man who presented to the sleep clinic complaining of frequent episodes of feeling paralyzed as he was going to sleep. It presents the clinical history, examination, follow-up, treatment, diagnosis, and the results of the procedures performed on the patient. Examination revealed a pleasant, thin, middle-aged man, in no acute distress, who looked...
Cambridge University Press eBooks August 5, 2010 J. W. Cook
The great principles of insight meditation are the four foundations of mindfulness. Lord Buddha claims that mindfulness is the only path to purification, freedom from suffering, and thus to nibbāna . This means there is no other practice to purify the mind, escape suffering and reach nibbāna besides the practice of the four foundations of mindfulness. (Phra Ajharn Yai, founder of Wat Bonamron)...
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 8, 2010 Adela Pinch
In nineteenth-century Britain, the story of thinking about other people was inseparable from the story of the struggle between the different intellectual disciplines that took thinking about other people as their proper business. The tension between psychology and philosophy – overlapping, but increasingly discrete, disciplines – forms a crucial context for this chapter and the next. This...
Cambridge University Press eBooks June 1, 2010 Naomi Eilan, Anthony O’Hear 9 citations
A representative expression of current thinking on the ‘problem of consciousness’ runs as follows. There is one, impenetrably hard problem; and a host of soluble, and in this sense easy problems. The hard problem is: how could a physical system yield subjective states? How could there be something it is like to be a physical system? This problem corresponds to a concept of consciousness...
Cambridge University Press eBooks June 1, 2010 Ned Block, Anthony O’Hear 3 citations
There are two concepts of consciousness that are easy to confuse with one another, access-consciousness and phenomenal consciousness. However, just as the concepts of water and H 2 O are different concepts of the same thing, so the two concepts of consciousness may come to the same thing in the brain. The focus of this paper is on the problems that arise when these two concepts of consciousness...
Cambridge University Press eBooks April 22, 2010 James P. Scanlan 1 citation
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kozlov, who taught at Kiev University, sought to build panpsychism into a comprehensive philosophical system, as did other Russian philosophers who subscribed to it. Two of them who, like Kozlov, deserve credit for the advancement of academic philosophy in tsarist Russia were Lev Mikailovich Lopatin at Moscow University and Nikolai Onufrievich Losskii at St. Petersburg...
Cambridge University Press eBooks February 18, 2010 R Ellis 11 citations
INTRODUCTION When David Chalmers introduced the notion of the “hard problem of consciousness” (1995), he contributed to a revolution in the neuroscience of consciousness and cognition as well as in the philosophy of mind. The main point of the hard problem is that, even if we could discover the “neural correlates of consciousness,” we still would not have answered the “harder” question: Why do...
Cambridge University Press eBooks February 4, 2010 Vibeke S. Catts, Stanley V. Catts 12 citations
Facts box Phencyclidine (PCP), ketamine, D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and 3, 4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) have been variously referred to as schizophrenomimetics, psychotogens, or psychotomimetics. There have been many reports that these drugs can induce psychotic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, formal thought disorder, or catatonia-like abnormalities) in the absence of...
Cambridge University Press eBooks November 12, 2009 Russell Reising, Jim Leblanc 8 citations
The day of the LSD experience often becomes a dramatic and easily discernible landmark in the development of individual artists. stanislav grof
Cambridge University Press eBooks September 3, 2009 Rocco J. Gennaro 24 citations
This chapter discusses and elaborates upon the evidence for higher-order thoughts (or I-thoughts) in animals. It also shows that the higher-order thought (HOT) theory is indeed consistent with animal consciousness. The chapter argues that recent experimental evidence on animal memory and metacognition strongly suggests that many animals have the self-concepts and mental-state concepts necessary...
Cambridge University Press eBooks November 17, 2008 Glenn Alexander Magee 10 citations
INTRODUCTION That there is something “mystical” about Hegel's philosophy is a familiar claim. In the years following Hegel's death it was a commonplace. In an 1840 essay on Meister Eckhart, the Danish philosopher Hans Martensen remarked that Hegel (as well as Schelling) had “demanded that philosophical thought rejuvenate itself in the immediate knowledge of God and divine things found in...
Cambridge University Press eBooks May 14, 2007 John F. Kihlstrom 26 citations
This chapter provides an overview of existing computational (mechanistic) models of cognition in relation to the study of consciousness, on the basis of psychological and philosophical theories and data. It begins by examining some foundational issues concerning computational approaches toward consciousness. Then, various existing models and their explanations of the conscious/unconscious...
Cambridge University Press eBooks December 21, 2006 Kate Miriam Loewenthal
Definitions and causes of dissociation and dissociative personality disorder Trances and possession states are sometimes thought of as dissociative. Are they? Do religious and cultural factors contribute to dissociative states and disorders? Eric had suffered serious abuse as a child, and in psychotherapy began to reveal different personalities: ‘quiet, middle-aged Dwight, the hysterically...