every age, it has been said, is an ‘age of transition’. So too, it might be said, is every age, in the history of the philosophy of mind at least, an age of revolt. Indeed this is almost a logical necessity. One who enters the pages of this history does so only by raising some banner of revolt; and the more faithful his disciples the sooner they are forgotten. It is upon the unfaithful disciple...
The subject of the study is the philosophical critique of the computational model of the mind in the context of post-nonclassical types of scientific rationality. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as Hubert Dreyfus's phenomenological critique of artificial intelligence and John Searle's analytical critique. Special attention is paid to the ontological foundations of human...
Between roughly 500 BCE and the thirteenth century CE, the Indian philosophical traditions — Sāṃkhya-Yoga, Buddhist Abhidharma, and the various schools of Vedānta — developed a precise, multi-term vocabulary for what we should now call the empirical psychology of habit. Four terms carry the conceptual weight: saṃskāra, the discrete imprint left in the mind by each act; vāsanā, the accumulated...
Stress has become a common issue among college students due to academic pressure, social challenges, and lifestyle changes. This study investigates the impact of yoga on stress relief among students of Aiman College of Arts and Science for Women. A total of 150 students aged 18–24 years participated in the study. They were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group...
Erika K. R. Stalcup’s Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism beautifully captures the sensory nature of the varied spiritual experiences—and the language used to describe those experiences—that shaped the religious lives of the first British Methodists. Rather than viewing conversion and religious experience through the lens of pulpit, leadership, or formal worship, Stalcup expands the...
In today’s highly competitive academic environment, students preparing for entrance examinations often experience increased stress, reduced attention span, and emotional instability. Yoga, as a holistic mind–body practice, has been widely recognized for its positive effects on mental and physical health. This study investigates the impact of a structured yoga intervention on concentration,...
Tom Stoppard’s 2015 play The Hard Problem centres on an argument about the eponymous philosophical concept related to the study of consciousness, a phrase coined by the Australian analytic philosopher David Chalmers. The play’s investment in philosophy of mind results in heavily discursive dialogue, which many critics of the play felt rendered the script more like a series of arguments than a...
This paper examines the notion of further facts and its significance for contemporary metaphysics. Many central metaphysical questions can be understood as disputes over whether certain facts are contingent relative to the physical structure of the universe. A paradigmatic example is the debate over whether mental facts are contingent upon physical facts. Similar issues arise in discussions of...
ISLAMIKAJuly 1, 2026Dimyati Sajari, Abdul Haris, Rasi’in Rasi’in et al.
The accelerating dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies has profoundly reshaped human cognition, emotion, and moral sensibility, while also generating new forms of psychological fragmentation and spiritual detachment. This study introduces Digital Sufism as a spiritually grounded and philosophically integrative framework for restoring inner equilibrium and sacred...
Temporal interference (TI) electrical stimulation is a novel neuromodulation method that can target deep brain structures to enhance the impact of behavioral techniques. We tested the feasibility of TI targeting the ventral striatum (VS) during an emotion regulation practice (breath-focused mindfulness meditation). To assess target engagement, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure...