August 16, 2026
Nandini Mishra
The question of consciousness remains one of the most challenging issues in contemporary philosophy. David Chalmers has transformed the issue through his formulation of the "Hard Problem of Consciousness," which distinguishes subjective experience from cognitive and behavioral functions. Chalmers's philosophy of consciousness, focusing on the explanatory gap between physical processes and...
Perspectivas
August 15, 2026
Shayan Hamraz
Sellars criticized the sense-datum theory as a form of 'the Myth of the Given' in the first and second parts of his article 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'. In the present article, only his criticisms in the first part have been examined. He presented two critiques of sense data theory. At the end, I have concluded that both of his criticisms contain multiple flaws. He overlooked one...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Ed Mirza
preprint
Description Animistic Solutions to Semiotic Disputes is a speculative philosophical essay examining whether the analytical distinctions made between different kinds of signs may obscure a more fundamental continuity between things and their representations. Beginning with the post-Cartesian tendency to separate mind from body, observer from observed, and word from thing, the essay revisits...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Shyam Vishal, Sharma Anita
preprint
The present paper undertakes a systematic and scholarly examination of psychological thought embedded within four major Eastern philosophical and spiritual systems: the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism (with particular emphasis on meditation & mental purification), Sufism (the mystical tradition of Islam), and Integral Yoga (as systematised by Sri Aurobindo & further developed by Mirra Alfassa, aka the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Janet Riley
preprint
Debates surrounding machine consciousness, subjective presence, and artificial sentience are currently dominated by a pervasive methodological paradox. In everyday human social life, consciousness in other people is never directly observed, measured, or physically verified; rather, it is attributed through a relational grant grounded in communicative reciprocity and empathetic trust....
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
August 15, 2026
Christos Kalpakidis
Abstract This paper reconstructs and defends Jean-Paul Sartre’s realism about consciousness as articulated in the Introduction to Being and Nothingness, situating his position within contemporary debates on illusionism and anti-realism in the philosophy of mind. While Sartre’s descriptions of consciousness as “nothingness” and his emphasis on the contingency of the subject–world relation may...
Research Square
August 14, 2026
Tamas Madl, Sara W. Lazar
preprint
Abstract Objectives. Decentering---relating to one's thoughts and emotions as passing mental events rather than being fused with them---is difficult to measure at scale. We test whether Integrated Decentering (ID), an automated measure of the decentering expressed in short reflective text, shows construct validity as one fixed scoring model. Methods. A purpose-trained language-model ensemble...
Figshare
August 14, 2026
Joel Roerick
preprint
Die AHA!-Übung ist eine deutschsprachige Adaption der STOP-Übung — einer achtsamkeitsbasierten Kurzübung von ein bis drei Minuten. Sie unterbricht den inneren Autopiloten, also das automatische Denken und Reagieren im Alltag, und öffnet einen Raum zwischen Reiz und Reaktion. Das Dokument beschreibt die Übung, zeichnet ihre Herkunft aus MBSR und MBCT nach und zeigt, wie sie sich in die Soziale...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 14, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper offers a rigorous examination of the concept of prosochē—the attentive mindfulness or vigilant focus on oneself—within Hellenistic Stoicism and its later transformations in Late Antiquity, and compares it to the modern psychological notion of the “flow state.” We analyze prosochē as a Stoic spiritual exercise (askēsis) essential to ethical development and life in accordance with...
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
August 13, 2026
Marina Holanda Kunst, Eliane de Holanda Silva, Willams de Lima Costa et al.
Virtual Reality (VR) has become an increasingly relevant medium for psychological interventions because it can combine immersion, controlled stimuli, and therapist-guided reflection. However, VR systems explicitly grounded in Positive Psychology remain comparatively underexplored, particularly in supervised psychotherapy settings. This paper presents Positive Psychology VR, a Unity-based VR...