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August 27, 2024
Maja Kittel (f. Białek)
This paper is a critical commentary on Walter Veit’s book "A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness." My goal is to show that although Veit succeeds in presenting a compelling account of animal consciousness, he may have unintentionally undermined the purpose of such science. I argue that, despite the author’s claims, his theory is not as empirically grounded as he makes it out to...
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September 30, 2018
Marcin Moskalewicz, Michael Alan Schwartz, Tudi Gozé
18 citations
This paper argues that intuition plays a role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and presents its phenomenological rationale.A discussion of self-assessment questionnaires and empirical studies in the clinical setting provides evidence that despite the prevalence of operational diagnosis, the intuitive judgment of schizophrenia continues to take place.Two related notions of intuitive diagnosis...
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September 30, 2018
Māra Grīnfelde
13 citations
In this paper I will try to systematically lay out and describe the multiple dimensions of the embodied experience of illness, which until recently has been the main focus within the field of the phenomenology of medicine.In order to do this, I will turn to analysis of the nature of embodiment in Husserl's phenomenology.I will argue that based on Hus serl's phenomenology of the body, one can...
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September 30, 2018
Marzena Adamiak, Marek Pokropski
1 citation
When looking at contemporary phenomenology, the first impression one gets is that it is a very diverse philosophical movement.Phenomenologists not only develop their own research but, even more often, they also participate in interdisciplinary enterprises.Contemporary phenomenology now looks surprisingly vital, but in the 1960s and 1970s it appeared to be a decadent philosophy pervaded by the...
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April 6, 2018
Zsuzsanna Kondor
Various theories suggest conscious phenomena are based exclusively on brain activity, while others regard them as a result of the interaction between embodied agents and their environment. In this paper, I will consider whether this divergence entails the acceptance of the fact that different theories can be applied in different scales (as in the case of physics), or if they are reconcilable. I...
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2016
Jan Górski
Internal sensations, especially organic ones, are not only the foundation of our consciousness of life and self but also an integral part of each feeling. This is probably the origin of the genuine affinity between feelings and consciousness of life and self, an affinity that manifests itself even in speech. Indeed, the expression "sense of self" is more natural than saying "representing" or...
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2015
Jacek Olender
The paper discusses artworks and artefacts considered as both cultural heritage and meaningful tokens for personal self-identity.The arguments come mostly from phenomenological understanding of self-identity and art, but the terminological toolkit comes mostly from the Extended Mind Thesis.While many museologists and theorists of culture argue that objects presented in a particular social...
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2014
Chris Drain
1 citation
The Hand, an Organ of the Mind, edited by Zdravko Radman, consists of seventeen essays by an impressive array of philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists, as well as a foreword by Jesse Prinz and a postscript by haptic artist Rosalyn Driscoll.62 As the title suggests, this collection concerns the role of the hand in cognition and consciousness, and aims to occupy a novel middle...