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Anthropologica September 28, 2023 Géraldine Mossière 1 citation
Spirituality in the Narrative: A Detour Via GenealogyY oga, meditation, personal development movements, New Age esoteric practices, shamanic rituals, East or South Asian-based beliefs: Today, more and more activities are defined as "spiritual."While most of these activities are inspired by specific cosmologies that have their own representations of the world, derived practices are usually...
Routledge eBooks September 28, 2023 Jeanne Rey 2 citations
Over the last decades, there has been growing interest in the West for mindfulness meditation in science, care, business, and education. Teachers adopting mindfulness meditation primarily acknowledge its potential benefits, yet critical scholarship highlighted that while mindfulness may support resilience, it may also enhance resignation or contribute to an increased medicalization of life. In...
Philosophy Study September 28, 2023 Timur Uçan
How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind?To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology, by contrast with conceptions of phenomenology of the XXth century, beneficially dispenses with several methodological and conceptual assumptions that were assumed to be compulsory, as phenomenological reduction, a...
Intermédialités Histoire et théorie des arts des lettres et des techniques September 28, 2023 Mia Imani, Saelyx Finna
This article situates the meeting points of dream tech and the radical rest movement, centering on Black creative and community practices to contextualize the emergence of dream tech in academic research labs, tech startups, consumer markets, and artistic incubations. The article describes the rise of the Radical Rest movement, led by Black activists and artists, in response to the need to...
Ideas and Ideals September 28, 2023 Viktoria G. Lysenko
For traditional Indian philosophy, which tends to establish its identity on the basis of the rationally incognizable Absolute (Ātman, Brahman), the verbal expressibility of the latter is one of the central issues. In fact, what is at stake here, is an attitude to language, trust or distrust in its capacity to be a tool for transmitting the experience of reality, which for the Indian tradition...
Frontiers in Psychology September 28, 2023 Zenan Ruan
The study of consciousness is becoming one of several significant challenges at the frontiers of science, in contrast to its previously being off-limits. With the application of binocular rivalry, split brain, blindsight, and other paradigms by passionate pioneers in the last century (Seth, 2018), empirical theories of consciousness have emerged in neuroscience. Currently, the situation has...
Frontiers in Psychology September 28, 2023 John Sanfey 7 citations
The problem of explaining the relationship between subjective experience and physical reality remains difficult and unresolved. In most explanations, consciousness is epiphenomenal, without causal power. The most notable exception is Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which provides a causal explanation for consciousness. However, IIT relies on an identity between subjectivity and a...
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning September 27, 2023 Sara Wigal, Sharee LeBlanc Broussard
As college students are adapting to new workloads and freedom while facing significant stressors and time management struggles, they might not have tools to assist their transition. Students took the Brown & Ryan (2003) Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) in class, participated in a classroom presentation on mindfulness, purposeful pausing to destress/re-center, and typical personal...
Filosofska dumka September 27, 2023 D. Sepetyi
Materialism/physicalism that generally dominates in the contemporary analytic philosophy is challenged by fairly powerful anti-materialist arguments, notably the zombie argument (most influentially defended by David Chalmers) and the knowledge argument (the most widely discussed version of which was advanced and defended by Frank Jackson). These arguments highlight the explanatory gap from the...
Buddhist-Christian Studies September 27, 2023 Joseph Nguyen
abstract:This article compares and contrasts the Ignatian concept of consolation without previous cause with the Zen Buddhist concept of satori. The aim is to underscore a unique but not commonly recognized characteristic of Ignatian contemplation and promote interreligious understanding. I argue that Ignatian prayer methods, though primarily kataphatic in their approach, share common features...