Phenomenology and Mind
September 21, 2018
Ancuţa Mortu
This paper discusses the question of how art might reveal important aspects of human cognition by taking as a starting point Alva Noë’s book Strange Tools. Art and Human Nature (2015). I argue that the enactive approach defended in this book has strong affinities with some recent art-historical approaches that take their cue from cognitive neuroscience, such as neuroarthistory (Onians, 2016)....
Phenomenology and Mind
September 21, 2018
Qiantong Wu
This paper discusses the enactivist attempt to entail the hypothesis of extended conscious mind (ECM). The enactists suggest that conscious experience is a relational interaction between the subject and the external environment; this personal-level description of conscious experience naturally entails an extended sub-personal characterization of the material basis of conscious experience (i.e....
The MIT Press
September 20, 2018
Daniel M. Wegner, Daniel Gilbert, Thalia Wheatley
Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. The first edition of this book proposed an innovative and provocative answer: the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain; it helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of...
Preprints.org
September 20, 2018
Arturo Tozzi
1 citation
preprint
The French-Swiss Professor in inductive philosophy Richard Avenarius (1843-1896), the father of empirio-criticism together with Ernst Mach, is one of the most underrated and misunderstood philosophers ever. It mostly depends upon his terminology, which displays an insurmountable difficulty. However, influenced by the most innovative proposals of his times of transition between the...
Oxford Scholarship Online
September 20, 2018
C. Ram-Prasad
This chapter follows the process by which a highly detailed account of the human being as bodily being emerges through a series of contemplative practices described in the fifth century by Buddhaghosa in The Path of Purification, a Theravada Buddhist manual. In the first three practices studied, meditation practices are described that disrupt intuitions about the stability of subject and...
Oxford Scholarship Online
September 20, 2018
Michael N. Forster
Herder developed a very powerful and influential philosophy of mind. He was the source of Hegel’s famous threefold distinction between subjective, objective, and absolute mind (or Geist). Concerning the fundamental mind–body question he wavered between neutral monism and materialism, but developed a theory that has marked advantages over rival theories such as dualism, mind–brain identity, and...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
September 16, 2018
P N Baryshnikov
This article focuses on the explanatory limits of the computational approach to the phenomenal consciousness. The principal aim is to analyze the methodological bounds of computational models regarding the content of the subjective phenomenal experience. Special attention is given to the correlation between the information theory and the semantic problems of natural language. We proceed from...
Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal
September 15, 2018
Kristen C. Blinne
2 citations
This essay explores the relationship between walking and writing, utilizing performative poetry as an a/r/tographic mode of contemplative inquiry.
Journal of Scientific Exploration
September 15, 2018
Alan Murdie
Guy Lyon Playfair who has died at age 83, was an independent scholar active in international paranormal research for more than five decades, specializing particularly in physical phenomena and telepathy in twins. In his career he turned up some remarkable evidence for paranormal events, most notably during the famed Enfield Poltergeist outbreak 1977–1979 in North London, which he investigated...
Routledge eBooks
September 14, 2018
Jennifer Leigh
2 citations
An on-going process of conscious self-awareness about the body, the mind, feelings, images, thoughts and emotions. Embodiment is commonly understood to be about the mind/body connection, or the presence of the meaty, fleshy, breathing body in the world to some extent. Somatic practices are practices that bring about the integration of the mind/body/consciousness. Although this approach has...