Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages
July 6, 2018
Todd Buras
Thomas Reid’s philosophy is a philosophy of mind. The aim of his published works is to construct what he calls “a just system of the mind; that is, an enumeration of the original powers and laws of our constitution, and an explication from them of the various phenomena of human nature” (IHM I ii, 15). In Reid’s day, the “phenomena of human nature” to be explicated in the philosophy of mind were...
July 6, 2018
Rebecca Copenhaver
In the 1600s matters of mind were still matters of soul, and the emerging sciences sought to incorporate the mind into God’s natural order, sometimes quite literally. We find vitalism, panpsychism, non-mechanistic materialism, idealism, and still more positions about the mind and its place in creation for which we have no -isms. Methodologically, natural philosophers sought regularities in...
July 6, 2018
Francesca Masi, Francesco Verde
4 citations
One of the main aims of contemporary philosophy of mind is to explain the nature and functioning of the mind in the physical world. Epicurus addresses two questions that link back to the mind-body problem. The first concerns the composition of the soul and its functioning with respect to the body. The second question concerns the nature and function of mental states, such as memories, in...
July 6, 2018
Amy Kind
It would be impossible in an article to survey all of the important developments on the mind-body problem that occurred in the 20th century. The author focuses on the key movements and themes that occupied philosophical attention over the course of the last 100 years. According to psychological behaviorists, psychology is best understood not as a science of mind but as a science of behavior. In...
Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
July 6, 2018
S. Schneider, P. Mandik
A bright metallic thread of future-oriented thinking runs through the tapestry of the philosophy of mind, especially in those parts of the fi eld that have grappled with the possibility of minds as machines. Can a robot feel pain? Can a suitably programmed computer think actual thoughts? Could humans survive the total replacement of their nervous system by neural prosthetics? As the pace of...
International Review of Psychiatry
July 4, 2018
Peter S. Hendricks
181 citations
A psychological model of classic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy informed by contemporary scientific data is presented in this paper. It is suggested that classic psychedelic-occasioned mystical experience is characterized by profound awe, a discrete emotion experienced in the presence of a vast stimulus requiring accommodation of mental structures. Awe, in turn, promotes the small self, a...
International Review of Psychiatry
July 4, 2018
Albert Garcia‐romeu, William A. Richards
186 citations
Humans have used serotonergic hallucinogens (i.e. psychedelics) for spiritual, ceremonial, and recreational purposes for thousands of years, but their administration as part of a structured therapeutic intervention is still a relatively novel practice within Western medical and psychological frameworks. In the mid-20th century, considerable advances were made in developing therapeutic...
Routledge eBooks
July 3, 2018
Ian Thurston
The irony of the attacks on Freud and psychoanalysis is that they have been coming at a time when the findings emerging out of neuroscience are tending to lend support to psychoanalytic principles; the embodied nature of consciousness, the ubiquity of unconscious mental functioning, the importance of emotion in decision-making, and the complex and conflicted nature of the human psyche. Mark...
Substance Use & Misuse
July 3, 2018
Fruzsina Iszáj, Bea Ehmann, Mark D Griffiths et al.
Psychoactive substance use has often been claimed to help generate and facilitate the artistic creative process. This study explored the role of artists' substance use in their creative processes and their efforts to balance between enhancement and relaxation. Semistructured interviews concerning the artistic creative process and the role of psychoactive substance use were recorded with 72...
The Sixties
July 3, 2018
Michael Organ
ABSTRACT The Australian artist Martin Sharp (1942–2013) produced a series of psychedelic artworks in London between 1966 and 1968, the most famous of which were the Disraeli Gears record cover for rock group Cream and the Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Mind poster. Sharp’s work exemplifies the connection between early twentieth century Modernist art movements, Pop art and acid-induced psychedelia of...