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Perspectives September 1, 2016 Ane Engelstad
Abstract: In this paper I present a problem for the Marxist idea of false consciousness, namely how it is vulnerable to accusations of dogmatism. I will argue that the concept must be further developed if it is to provide a plausible tool for systematic social analysis. In the second half of the paper I will show how this could be done if the account of false consciousness incorporates Shaun...
Forensic Science International September 2016 Ashton D Lesiak, Rabi A. Musah
A continuing challenge in analytical chemistry is species-level determination of the constituents of mixtures that are made of a combination of plant species. There is an added urgency to identify components in botanical mixtures that have mind altering properties, due to the increasing global abuse of combinations of such plants. Here we demonstrate the proof of principle that ambient...
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging September 1, 2016 Albert R. Powers, Megan S Kelley, Philip R. Corlett
The problem of whether and how information is integrated across hierarchical brain networks embodies a fundamental tension in contemporary cognitive neuroscience, and by extension, cognitive neuropsychiatry. Indeed, the penetrability of perceptual processes in a 'top-down' manner by higher-level cognition-a natural extension of hierarchical models of perception-may contradict a strictly modular...
Common Knowledge September 1, 2016 Nicolas Langlitz 12 citations
Based on anthropological fieldwork on the revival of hallucinogen research as well as on the epistemic culture of neurophilosophy, this Common Knowledge guest column examines two very different philosophical engagements with psychedelic drugs. In Thomas Metzinger's evidence-based philosophy of mind, hallucinogens help to operationalize questions about the nature of consciousness. While this...
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research September 1, 2016 Sisira Padavala, Devaraj Ezhilarasan 10 citations
ABSTRACTCompounds in some plants have remarkable effects on the central nervous system. Plants containing those compounds are mind altering orpsychoactive in nature. These are consumed in the form of simple or complex preparations to affect the mind or alter the state of consciousness.Psychoactivity may include sedative, stimulant, euphoric, deliriant, and hallucinogenic effects. Several...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion August 31, 2016 Stuart Sarbacker
Abstract The contemporary academic study of religion has its roots in conceptual and theoretical structures developed in the early to mid-20th century. A particularly important example of such a structure is the concept of the “numinous” developed by the theologian and comparativist Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) in his work, The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of...
Animal Sentience August 19, 2016 Shimon Edelman, Roy Moyal, Tomer Fekete 16 citations
Klein & Barron’s (2016) (K & B’s) case for insect consciousness is a welcome development in an area that, in all of the science and philosophy of mind, is probably the most anthropocentric. In this commentary, we seek to strengthen K & B’s side of the argument by appealing not just to putative neural mechanisms but also to computational theory that supports it (section 1). We also offer some...
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience August 11, 2016 Neiloufar Family, David W Vinson, Gabriella Vigliocco et al. 53 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a classic psychedelic drug that alters cognition in a characteristic way. It has been suggested that psychedelics expand the breadth of cognition via actions on the central nervous system. Previous work has shown changes in semantic processing under psilocybin (a related psychedelic to LSD) that are consistent with an increased spread of semantic activation....
Swiss Archives of Neurology Psychiatry and Psychotherapy August 10, 2016 Andreas Johann Steck, Barbara Steck 3 citations
A comprehensive and coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship can only arise from a combination of subjective experience and scientific objectivity.Current developments in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in a clinical context.The authors discuss neuroscientific advances in the fields of consciousness, memory, emotions, language, trauma and pain.They explore how stressful...
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia August 6, 2016 Marco Viola
This article aims at providing a rational reconstruction of the ontology of Cognitive Neuroscience. That should satisfy three desiderata: (a) an ontology of cognitive functions describing any operation of the mind; (b) an ontology of neural structure describing any part of the brain; (c) a one-to-one correspondence between each cognitive function and a given neural structure. The assumptions...