Victorian Literature and Culture
May 18, 2011
Beth Tressler
In a letter that she wrote to her childhood governess and religious mentor Maria Lewis in 1839, George Eliot describes a pervading and distressful mental anxiety – one that would come to greatly influence both the constitution and development of her fiction. Still within the throes of her evangelical ardor, Eliot laments in this letter that the “disjointed specimens” of history, poetry,...
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
May 18, 2011
István Aranyosi
2 citations
In this article, I undertake the tasks: (i) of reconsidering Feigl’s notion of a ‘nomological dangler’ in light of recent discussion about the viability of accommodating phenomenal properties, or qualia, within a physicalist picture of reality; and (ii) of constructing an argument to the effect that nomological danglers, including the way qualia are understood to be related to brain states by...
Analysis
May 16, 2011
Josh Weisberg
77 citations
Ned Block argues that the higher order (HO) approach to explaining consciousness is ‘defunct’ because a prominent objection (the ‘misrepresentation objection’) exposes the view as ‘incoherent’. What’s more, a response to this objection that I’ve offered elsewhere (Weisberg 2010) fails because it ‘amounts to abusing the notion of what-it’s-like-ness’ (Block 2011: 427).1 In this response, I wish...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
May 11, 2011
Christopher V. Wolsko
9 citations
A humanistic and transpersonal approach to personal growth necessitates careful inquiry into the often pathological world of egoistic functioning—where the psyche is engaged in a continual, defensive, and ruminative effort to assert the uniqueness, power, and positivity of an independent symbolic self. This article describes narrative research, conducted at the beginning of several...
The Open Sleep Journal
May 11, 2011
Rafael J. Salín-Pascual
The phenomenological relationship between consciousness and sleep are reviewed.Consciousness has a selfreflexive component, and while sleeping that is not working as in awakenings.The necessity of some change in narrow concepts of conscious as to be aware and self reflective as well of some aspects of Altered State of Consciousness are explained.In fact, in rapid eye movements [REM] sleep is...
Bioscience Horizons The International Journal of Student Research
May 4, 2011
Stephanie Webber
7 citations
Exploration into the domain of consciousness and 'self' originated within the realm of philosophical thought.However, neuroscientific research facilitates the transition from conceptualization to empiricism, allowing scientists to locate the underlying neural mechanisms behind this phenomenon.Binding the multiplicity of conscious modalities, including the sense of ownership over one's...
Psychological Science
May 2011
Davide Rigoni, Simone Kühn, Giuseppe Sartori et al.
The feeling of being in control of one's own actions is a strong subjective experience. However, discoveries in psychology and neuroscience challenge the validity of this experience and suggest that free will is just an illusion. This raises a question: What would happen if people started to disbelieve in free will? Previous research has shown that low control beliefs affect performance and...
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
May 1, 2011
Nathaniel F. Barrett
2 citations
Book Review| May 01 2011 Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind, Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes. Nathaniel F. Barrett Nathaniel F. Barrett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2011) 32 (2):...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
May 1, 2011
Mahmoud Talkhabi
The goal of this paper is to investigate implications of cognitive science as an interdisciplinary study for educating philosophy of mind. Cognitive science with respect to unified investigation of the mind (UIM), based on its methodology, has created new possibilities in educational planning of philosophy of mind while applying new methods and techniques to teaching. Epistemological...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Christina Feldman, Willem Kuyken
237 citations
In this paper we investigate compassion and its place within mindfulness-based approaches. Compassion is an orientation of mind that recognizes pain and the universality of pain in human experience and the capacity to meet that pain with kindness, empathy, equanimity and patience. We outline how learning to meet pain with compassion is part of how people come to live with chronic conditions...