Frontiers Collection
2019
James B. Glattfelder
6 citations
Consciousness is a fact. In this very moment your eyes are scanning these words and your mind is creating understanding of and context for the contents utilizing memory. However, astonishingly, we don’t know how to accommodate consciousness into our scientific view of the world. Until quite recently, the nation of consciousness was taboo for scientists and philosophers alike. Today, a central...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
2019
Scott Buckler, Jenni Gates
While there is a tradition of research in relation to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community and religiosity, there is a paucity of research relating to spirituality. Additionally, classifying such ‘non–conforming’ groups into a general classification has inherent problems, specifically in relation to those identifying as transgender more likely to...
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2019
A. Brook
In this paper I argue that while the dominant model of the mind in cognitive science is deeply Kantian, some of Kant’s most arresting ideas have not been assimilated into the contemporary picture. The Kantian elements in the contemporary picture are mainly these three: Representation requires both percepts and concepts, the study of cognition is based on inference to the best explanation (Kant...
Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science
2019
Brian Earl
4 citations
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology.
Staged Experiences
2019
In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare offers us a complex figure of Shylock: a Jew, a usurer, and a scapegoat. Here, the whole complexity of the disturbing play is inscribed. Against the enigmatic setting of Venice, the figure of Shylock is culturally constructed and offered to the audiences according to the best artistic intentions of the production team. In a different cultural context, the...
Peace and Conflict Studies
2019
Tatsushi Arai, Jean Bosco Niyonzima
This essay brings together complementary insights from transpersonal psychology, experiential learning, and neuroscience to develop an integrated framework of psychosocial healing in societies affected by conflict and trauma. While transpersonal psychology examines the spiritual and transcendental aspects of psychosocial wellbeing, research on experiential learning examines how people learn...
Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Lucrezia Compiani
In the contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind debate the definition of the ontology of the Self is difficult if not downright dubious. Thus, different theories aim to provide an account, especially where further neuroscientific research could be implemented. To this extent, the identity of the Self is suggested to be pinpointed by virtue of its specific set of mechanical features...
Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Riccardo Manzotti
Here I present a mind-object identity theory based on a straightforward hypothesis: One's experience of an object is identical with the object itself. To defend this hypothesis, I will reconsider the notion of a physical object in terms of relative and actual properties. To address cases of misperception such as dreams and hallucinations, I will also reconsider the notion of present in relative...
Journal of the history of the neurosciences
2019
Richard Leblanc
Wilder Penfield is justly famous for his contributions to our understanding of epilepsy and of the structure-function relationship of the brain. His theory on the relationship of the brain and mind is less well known. Based on the effects of the electrical stimulation of the cortex in conscious patients, Penfield believed that consciousness and mind are functions of what he referred to as the...
Psychiatriki
2019
K Laios, P Lytsikas-Sarlis, K Manes et al.
Drugs with psychedelic, hypnotic, narcotic, analgesic, suppressive, euphoric and stimulating effects were used in various ways during the ancient times. We can classify drug use in ancient times into two main categories. On the one hand, ancient physicians prescribed drugs based on their pharmaceutical-therapeutic actions. On the other hand, people not pertaining to medicine and not relating to...