What follows is a short thought experiment that aims to show, reductio ad absurdum, that narrow qualia internalism is probably inconsistent with a physicalist/functionalist theory of mind. Those wishing to rebut the argument presented here will need to demonstrate why spatial proximity and the right sort of causal connection of functionally isolated components are necessary to the instantiation...
Recent analytic philosophers of mind, such as Galen Strawson (2006), David Chalmers (2015), Philip Goff (2006, 2017a, 2017b), and Itay Shani (2015, 2018), building off of the work of earlier pioneers, such as Thomas Nagel (1979), have articulated and defended some version of panpsychism. Strawson defends micropsychism, Chalmers defends panprotopsychism, and Goff and Shani advocate different...
The inheritance of dualism from Plato to Descartes, and since, has impoverished the human relation with nature, the world, other humans, and other species. The division of soul and body, and its counterpart of mind and body, gave us a world we believe ourselves to be separate from and superior to other species. This self-othering standpoint has had devastating consequences socially,...
Abstract The assimilation of phenomenology by theology (namely of Heidegger by Karl Rahner) exemplifies how a pre-existing philosophical framework can be imported into a theological system by being suffused with belief. Although one would imagine that the incommensurability between philosophy and religion would thus be overcome, the two disciplines risk to remain, given the sequels of the...
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is making a case against empathy when it comes to ethical deliberation and action.According to Bloom, emotional empathy has a dark side because it causes an in-group bias that leads to parochialism and racism.Our helping behavior is selectively aimed at those like us and, as a result, blinds us to the suffering in distant global settings.In arriving at his position,...
Reviewed by: The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-First Century ed. by Margaret Benefiel and Bo Karen Lee Anita Houck (bio) The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Margaret Benefiel and Bo Karen Lee. A volume in Advances in Workplace...
Spirit, Spirituality, and Contemplative Method Mary Frohlich, RSCJ (bio) The goal of the “Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Spirituality” conference, held at the Antonianum in Rome in September 2019, was for spirituality scholars from both Latin (that is, Italian or Spanish speakers) and English-speaking worlds to converse and to learn from one another. In view of that goal, I begin by...
Summary : The Limits of the Self, the Limits of the Mind Philosophy sees two trends which position the self, or the mind, as exceeding beyond the typically accepted boundaries. Firstly – as the feeling of oneness with all being, the universe, nature or God, known through different cultures and ages. Romain Rolland called this the “oceanic feeling” and considered it the basis of spirituality....
This paper proposes that conscious, explicit memory, implicit memory, and instincts constitute the four-component mind for the mental origins of psychotherapy and personality. The mental origin of the personality theories including the big five personality traits, the MBTI, the social style model, the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, and the Schwartz’s theory of basic human values is from the...
Eine wachsende Anzahl von Studien belegt, dass achtsamkeitsbasierte Programme sich als vorteilhaft in der Förderung der Resilienz und in der Reduktion von Belastung von Krankenhausmitarbeiter*innen erweisen. Bei den gängigen Achtsamkeitsprogrammen wird jedoch in der Regel nur wenig dafür getan, den Transfer des Erlernten in den Arbeitsalltag der Mitarbeiter*innen sicherzustellen. Außerdem wurde...