Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy
July 27, 2020
Takaharu Oda, Alessio Bucci
1 citation
Chief amongst the issues Toshihiko Izutsu broached is the philosophisation of Zen Buddhism in his book Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism. This article aims to critically compare Izutsu’s reconstruction of Zen metaphysics with another metaphysical tradition rooted in Descartes’ cogito ergo sum. Putting Izutsu’s terminological choices into the context of Zen Buddhism, we review his argument...
July 26, 2020
Morten Overgaard, Jesper Mogensen, Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup
Drawing on neuroscientific research and metacognitive theory, this groundbreaking volume examines the theoretical implications that are elicited when neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are identified.The relationship between consciousness and the brain has concerned philosophers for centuries, yet a tacit assumption in much empirically minded consciousness research seems to be that if we...
Revista de Filosofía
July 24, 2020
Karina Silvia Pedace, Tomás Balmaceda, Diego Lawler et al.
This work promotes the thesis that humans are naturally transhuman. In order to achieve this, we present in the first two sections some examples of technological devices assembled to human beings, and we critically review the assumptions and dichotomies on which the idea of human enhancement is based according to the ordinary transhumanist vision. Thirdly, we present the thesis of the Extended...
Revista de Filosofía
July 24, 2020
Arthur Araújo
No seu famoso artigo “What is it like to be a bat?” (1974), Thomas Nagel sustenta que existe um ‘ponto de vista’ característico e inescrutável, não acessível objetivamente na experiência, que determina o sentido da própria experiência como evento mental. Entre recentes teorias filosóficas da mente, eventualmente, a esse elemento subjetivo correspondem os chamados qualia, i.e., propriedades...
International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
July 18, 2020
Pranita K Shinde, Kalpana Jadhao, Pradnya Shinde et al.
Background -In today’s era lifestyle of people has become very mechanical. Everyone is running in a rat race for target achievement, which results in stress. This stress further effects on physical as well as mental health of an individual. Mental health is the balanced development of emotional attitudes and personality which live harmoniously with all society or community. Mental disorders are...
Routledge eBooks
July 15, 2020
Alice Barra, Manon Carrière, Steven Laureys et al.
2 citations
In clinical setting, consciousness can be described by two components: wakefulness and awareness. It is now established that a wide range of states or experiences characterized by dissociation between these two components exists. This chapter discusses certain of those most intriguing instances, such as disorders of consciousness, hypnosis, anaesthesia and near-death experiences. We here...
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
July 9, 2020
Daniel Stoljar
According to the epistemic view of the hard problem of consciousness, we are ignorant at least for the time being of something important and relevant when it comes to the hard problem, and this fact has a significant implication for its solution. This chapter outlines one version of the view before considering two objections. The first is that, while we may be ignorant of various features of...
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
July 9, 2020
Adam Pautz
23 citations
According to representationalists, sensory consciousness is a matter of representing the world to be a certain way. Some (Armstrong, Tye, Dretske) have suggested that representationalism fits well with the idea that consciousness can be reduced to something physical. Others think that representationalism makes the mind–body problem harder because our usual models for reducing representation do...
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
July 9, 2020
Michael Pelczar
Metaphysical idealism is the mirror-image of physicalism about the mental: where physicalists contend that the mental facts of our world supervene on the physical facts (but not vice versa), idealists contend that the physical facts of our world supervene on the mental facts (but not vice versa). Like physicalism, idealism is a kind of monism. According to idealists, the fundamental features of...
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
July 9, 2020
Dan Zahavi
9 citations
Not that long ago, discussions of selfhood in philosophy of mind tended to focus on diachronic identity and the so-called persistence question. Important as this question might be, it does, however, not exhaust the topic of selfhood. In recent years, the focus has shifted somewhat from diachronic to synchronic identity and given rise to a lively debate concerning the relationship between...