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2 papers in the library · publishing 2019-2025
Athens Journal of Philology May 30, 2025 Farhan Lakhany
One way of making sense of experiential states is via an evolutionary explanation. To do this, we need to clearly explicate the adaptive role which experiential states play in the organisms which have it. In his works, Peter Godfrey-Smith provides two different ways of understanding experiential states as evolutionary adaptions and calls the two views the “transformation view” and the...
Athens Journal of Philology November 20, 2019 V. Ginsburgh, S. Metzidakis
Arthur Rimbaud’s sonnet Vowels presents a poetic vision based ostensibly on a quasi-psychedelic or synesthetic experience. It has inspired writers, critics, painters, and singers for over a century mainly because of its often obscure form and content. From the first verse of the text, for instance, the author juxtaposes each of the normal five French vowels printed in capital letters with what...