March 23, 2019
A. Azam, V. Latman, J. Katz
BACKGROUND Mindfulness meditation is a commonly used psychological intervention for pain, mood, and anxiety conditions, but can be challenging to practice when dealing with severe symptoms without proper training experience. The Mindfulness Meditation App (MMA) is a supportive training tool specifically developed for the present study, to aid in the practice of mindful breathing using a...
The Journal of Religion
March 21, 2019
Martin Shuster
1 citation
Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is incredibly complex and, after millennia, still subject to controversy. In what follows I do not explicitly engage all of the well-known (and well-worn) debates surrounding that text. The aims of this essay are instead to reveal inMaimonides a sort of “phenomenology”—a term that I will clarify shortly but that at the outset should be taken to signal the...
March 20, 2019
Larry M. Jorgensen
Abstract: A systematic reappraisal of Leibniz’s philosophy of mind. The main argument of this book is easy to state:Leibniz offers a fully natural theory of mind. In today’s philosophical climate in which much effort has been put into discovering a naturalized theory of mind Leibniz’s efforts to reach a similar goal three hundred years earlier will provide a critical stance from which we can...
حکمت معاصر
March 19, 2019
Fahimeh Shariati
Despite the physicalistic approach to the mind in the present century, the existence of the mental states different from body states has caused various scales to be put forth regarding mental issues, the most important of which are awareness, being first person, and intentionality. Awareness possesses an extensive domain incorporating senses, perceptions, recalling, visual representation,...
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
March 15, 2019
Christopher S. Hill
The doctrine that mental states are identical with physical states has long played a prominent role in theories of mind and consciousness. The most widely discussed version of the doctrine, known as ‘type physicalism’, is concerned with qualitative states of consciousness – that is, with states like pain, itching, the way oranges taste, the way onions smell, and the way scarlet objects look...
Stress and Health
March 15, 2019
G. Slemp, Hayley K. Jach, A. Chia et al.
45 citations
Mindfulness, meditation, and other practices that form contemplative interventions are increasingly offered in workplaces to support employee mental health. Studies have reported benefits across various populations, yet researchers have expressed concerns that adoption of such interventions has outpaced scientific evidence. We reappraise the extant literature by meta-analytically testing the...
British Journal of Aesthetics
March 13, 2019
Ted Nannicelli
This paper seeks to establish closer connections and spur dialogue between philosophers working on 4E cognition and aestheticians. In part, the aim is to offer a critical overview of the ways 4E research might inform our understandings of the arts. Yet it is also partly to flag some potential art-specific challenges to some of the theses found within the 4E literature. I start by examining the...
Scientific Reports
March 12, 2019
Junling Gao, Hang Kin Leung, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu et al.
Despite extensive research on various types of meditation, research on the neural correlates of religious chanting is in a nascent stage. Using multi-modal electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods, we illustrate that during religious chanting, the posterior cingulate cortex shows the largest decrease in eigenvector centrality, potentially due to regional endogenous generation of delta...
Journal of Visualized Experiments
March 8, 2019
Mai Minoura, Iori Tani, Takahiro Ishii et al.
How is our bodily self-consciousness acquired, and how does it affect cognition? To investigate this, we conducted an experiment using the squeeze machine, a device that provides pressure along the length of the user's whole body. The squeeze machine is used to help autistic people relax. The inventor of the machine, Dr. Temple Grandin says that the squeeze machine, beyond bringing her...
Brain-Mind
March 7, 2019
Paul Thagard
Abstract: Rather than define the concept of mind, this chapter gives it a “three-analysis” in terms of standard examples such as various people’s intelligence; typical features such as perception, problem solving, emotions, and consciousness; and explanations such as why people behave as they do. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical...