PsyArXiv
August 22, 2026
Laura Desirée Di Paolo
preprint
Debates about generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education often oppose enhancement to diminishment. This framing obscures important differences in how learners recruit AI and how cognitive labour is distributed between agents and technological resources. We introduce cognitive eco-sourcing as a framework for analysing these relations. It distinguishes four non-parallel and potentially...
Scientific Reports
August 22, 2026
Won Ju Hwang, Hwiyun Kim, Hyojin Kim
Adolescents experienced substantial psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, including elevated stress, disrupted routines, reduced peer interaction, and reduced access to in-person professional support. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions may offer accessible and scalable support for adolescents when conventional services are disrupted. This preliminary randomized controlled...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 22, 2026
Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim
preprint
Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has intensified a familiar question: can machines think, understand, or possess consciousness? These questions, however, often assume that the meaning of terms such as understanding, representation, and meaning is sufficiently stable across biological and artificial systems. This paper argues that such an assumption may be premature....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 22, 2026
Arlindo L. Oliveira
preprint
The nature of subjective experience remains one of the deepest unsolved problems in science. Phenomena such as sentience, self-awareness, phenomenal consciousness, and the sensation of free will have occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries, yet they remain unexplained despite substantial progress in neuroscience, biology, and computer science. The central challenge of explaining how...
August 22, 2026
Esteban Llano-Piedrahíta
Amid climate disruption and biodiversity loss, interest has grown in entheogens – visionary substances rooted in Indigenous cosmologies – as catalysts of ecological consciousness and healing. This phenomenological study pursues three aims: clarify how ceremonies shape ecological awareness, describe unity experiences linked to ethical change, and assess life transformations after ritual...
August 21, 2026
Ashanti J Brown
Black adults in the United States navigate profound and often invisible stressors at the intersection of racism and trauma. The burden of chronic racial stress functions as an embodied form of oppression that may increase the risk and intensity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and undermine psychological strengths such as mindfulness and self-compassion for healing, recovery,...
August 21, 2026
Marc-Oliver Rauch
Die Arbeit untersucht Panpsychismus und Substanzdualismus als konkurrierende Antworten auf das Körper-Geist-Problem. Im Mittelpunkt stehen ihre Erklärungskraft hinsichtlich des phänomenalen Bewusstseins, der Einheit des erlebenden Subjekts und der mentalen Kausalität. Methodisch verbindet die Untersuchung begriffliche und modale Analysen mit der systematischen Rekonstruktion zentraler Argumente...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 21, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Why philosophize? This paper argues that philosophizing is a distinctive exercise of the human capacity for reflective thought. Thought can take not only external objects but also perception, affect, action, memory, judgement, and thought itself as objects of inquiry. Its distinctive power lies therefore not in infallibility but in its unusual reflective reach and its capacity for...
August 21, 2026
Devin Sanchez Curry, Louise Daoust
Javier Gomez-Lavin suggests that the history of the philosophy of mind is well understood as a history of attempts to provide recipes for building minds. But Gomez-Lavin worries that almost all of these recipes share a common flaw: they focus too much on the individual mind, and neglect the ways in which other people (and group dynamics) shape how minds work. In their response, Tim Elmo Feiten...
August 21, 2026
Juliette Dubois, David Zarka, Nathalie Guissard et al.
preprint
This project consists of a scoping review examining the reported effects of mindful movement on learning processes across the lifespan, including cognitive functions such as attention, memory, executive functions, and self-regulation. The primary aim of this review is twofold: (1) to map the existing scientific literature and identify the range and characteristics of mindful movement...