Philosophy
August 23, 2018
Andrea Christofidou
Abstract First, I offer a solution to the metaphysical problem of the mind–body relation, drawing on the fact of its distinctness in kind. Secondly, I demonstrate how, contrary to what is denied, Descartes’ metaphysical commitments allow for the intellect's clear and distinct conception of the mind–body union. Central to my two-fold defence is a novel account of the metaphysics of Descartes’...
Scientific Reports
August 20, 2018
Pilleriin Sikka, Henri Pesonen, Antti Revonsuo
56 citations
Waking mental well-being is assumed to be tightly linked to sleep and the affective content of dreams. However, empirical research is scant and has mostly focused on ill-being by studying the dreams of people with psychopathology. We explored the relationship between waking well-being and dream affect by measuring not only symptoms of ill-being but also different types and components of...
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio J – Paedagogia-Psychologia
August 20, 2018
Stanisław Radoń
The human brain can be modelled as a complex network, and may have a small-world structure both at the level of anatomical as well as functional connectivity (optimal organization of different brain network associated with rapid information propagation, minimal wiring costs, as well as a balance between local processing and global integration) in which activity of Default Mode Network play...
CRC Press eBooks
August 17, 2018
Derek Steinberg
Baruch Spinoza described Mind as one of the attributes of God, the only other attribute knowable to Man being ‘extension’, or things, including the material body. Most of the modern neuroscientific literature on consciousness is monist, i.e. it assumes that the mind and consciousness are, indeed can only be, products of the physical brain. John Searle, in his excellent review of the work of...
CRC Press eBooks
August 17, 2018
Derek Steinberg
Consciousness, that is, in the human sense, awareness not only of a range of stimuli, sensations and perceptions such as animals show, but a subjective sense of personal identity, of the self, at the centre of individual existence. Greenfield, who starts out from the perspective of primarily neurophysiology and biochemistry, describes consciousness as ‘the inside-the-skin sensation’, which is a...
Journal of MCU Peace Studies
August 16, 2018
Phramaha Surachai Jayabhivaddhano, Sawat Anothai, Somboon Boondo
The objectives of this research are as followings: 1) to study the process of wisdom development in western and Buddhist philosophies; 2) to study the Essence of Mind (or Original Mind) in Zen and Theravada Buddhist philosophies; 3) to study western and Buddhist hermeneutics as the tools of dissertation; 4) to apply Buddhist hermeneutics on the Essence of Mind in the process of wisdom...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 14, 2018
Jean L. Kristeller, Kevin D. Jordan
48 citations
In the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training program (MB-EAT), which lasts 12 sessions, mindfulness practice is taught, mindful eating is cultivated, and self-awareness and self-acceptance are enhanced. An integrative concept is the value in cultivating ‘wisdom’ in regard to creating a new and flexible relationship to eating and food, rather than following externally determined rules and...
Pacific philosophical quarterly
August 14, 2018
Matthew J Davidson
1 citation
Abstract In this article, I explore various views on which mind–body dualism is true, but the soul is located in the body. I argue that this sort of dualism (which I call ‘somatic dualism’) once was a not‐uncommon view in the philosophy of mind. I also argue that it has the resources to reply to some of the problems thought to affect Cartesian dualism.
Filosofia Unisinos
August 9, 2018
Geoffrey Dierckxsens
3 citations
This paper aims to show that Paul Ricœur's hermeneutical phenomenology has significance for philosophy of mind, in particular for recent theories of enactivism, one of the most significant latest developments in cognitive theory.While philosophy of mind often finds its inspiration in hermeneutics and phenomenology, especially in Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's, the later development of...
Revista Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião
August 9, 2018
Charles Champe Taliaferro
A key concern philosophically today is how to square our common sense understanding of ourselves as intentional, conscious agents with a naturalist view of the cosmos, according to which the cosmos is non-teleological, non-purposive, and consisting of mind-less processes. One strategy has been for naturalists to deny the common sense understanding of ourselves. In this essay, the reality of...