Sententiae March 31, 2026 Olena Kalantarova
Review of Douglas S. Duckworth (2019). Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences and Management Practices March 31, 2026 Muhammad Javid, Muhammad Jawwad
Consciousness represents one of the greatest philosophical and cognitive scientific problems to date. Contemporary neuroscience and artificial intelligence have been immensely successful in describing neural mechanisms and behavior, yet the subjective, qualitative essence of conscious experience remains difficult to explain within either discipline. It is argued here that functionalist and...
Journal for General Philosophy of Science March 26, 2026 Chang Liu, Bin Ye
Constructionists claim that emotions result from the categorization of a kind of phenomenal character, or what is known as core affect. This categorization takes shape in terms of prior situated experience. Husserl, in turn, suggests that perceptions emerge from the apprehension of a kind of phenomenal character. Similarly, this also takes shape in terms of prior situated experience. Thus, the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 25, 2026 Shuochang Song 4 citations
This paper establishes "Point-Luminism" as a distinct ontological and aesthetic framework that challenges the traditional representationalist paradigm in the philosophy of perception. Grounded in the premise that the world is fundamentally a "field of potentiality," we argue that visual reality is actively constructed by consciousness. Through the invention and utilization of the "electric...
Principia an international journal of epistemology March 25, 2026 Steven S. Gouveia, Ângela Leite
In this paper, I want to briefly introduce how four approaches that relate (or not) philosophical investigation with the neuroscientific research can be considered in order to achieve a methodology that can effectively investigate the phenomenon of the conscious mind and its relationship with the brain. The traditional way of defining philosophical work seems to be clearly opposed to the...
Frontiers in Psychology March 25, 2026 Amira Arora correction
The so-called "hard problem of consciousness," famously articulated by philosopher David Chalmers (1995), asks why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. Why does neural activity in the visual cortex generate the qualia of red, or neurochemical shifts involving oxytocin result in the felt sense of love? Despite significant advances in cognitive neuroscience,...
Theory & Psychology March 23, 2026 Henrique Mesquita Pompermaier, Carlos Eduardo Lopes
In this paper, we explore the possibility of radical behaviorism to respond to the challenges posed by Merleau-Ponty to scientific psychology. According to this philosopher, modern dichotomous thinking places every psychological project in a stalemate: it adopts either mentalism, distancing itself from science, or physiologism, distancing itself from psychology. For Merleau-Ponty, the notion of...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences March 23, 2026 Evan Thompson
This article contains my response to the commentaries by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Tom Froese, Miriam Kyselo, and Claudia E. Vanney on The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (Frank et al., 2024 ).
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 21, 2026 John Tyrrell
This study proposes a formal framework for consciousness that transcends biologicalchauvinism by synthesizing Integrated Information Theory (Tononi, 2016), bioelectric morphogenesis (Levin, 2019-2025), relational physics (Lahav, 2021; Rovelli, 1996), and crosscultural contemplative phenomenology spanning three millennia across genuinely isolatedpopulations.We formalize the concept of soul as...
Preprints.org March 16, 2026 Gerd Leidig preprint
Contemporary philosophy of mind is beginning to rehabilitate Arthur Schopenhauer as a proto-phenomenologist whose metaphysics of the will—once divested of its ontological commitments—provides thick descriptions of embodied agency, self-structure, and intersubjective resonance. This article validates this thesis through a four-stage naturalized reconstruction: (1) Schopenhauer’s "world-knot" and...
Review of Philosophy and Psychology March 3, 2026 Mads J. Dengsø
Abstract ‘Modern times’ are consistently associated with a sense of temporal acceleration and disruption brought on by the breakneck speed of modern sociotechnology. But how does modern sociotechnology impact our sense of time and temporality? This paper seeks to establish the relationship between human time and technology in order to explain the contemporary phenomenon of temporal disruption....
Review of Philosophy and Psychology March 1, 2026 Francesca Righetti, Bastien Perroy
Abstract Temporal disorientation in episodic memory includes recalling episodes we struggle to posit in time. In this paper, we theorize how this disorientation arises by arguing for a constrained functional analogy between mental time travel and spatial navigation. We characterize temporal orientation as coordination between egocentric anchors and temporal structure (order, interval, and...
The lancet. Psychiatry March 1, 2026 Jasper Feyaerts, Pavan S Brar, Louis Sass et al. 1 citation
In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the early identification and treatment of individuals at increased risk of psychotic disorder. Yet, despite considerable research effort, current early psychosis research faces several limitations. In this Personal View, we consider how integrating...
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews March 1, 2026 Hagar Tal, Malcolm Wright, Shawn Prest et al. 2 citations
Computational phenomenology has emerged as a powerful framework for investigating advanced meditation states and stages, and meditative development and endpoints. Various models have been proposed to mechanistically explain the diverse experiences associated with these practices, including enhanced well-being, shifts in attentional control, the loosening or 'defabrication' of perceptual...
Human Studies March 1, 2026 Bence Peter Marosan
The main aim of this article is to shed light on the origins of consciousness in the natural world by presenting elements of empirically related interdisciplinary research based on the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl and his followers. The main thesis of this paper is that affections and emotions have a central and foundational role in organising conscious mental life such that...