Journal of Substance Use
July 30, 2010
R. L. Carhart-Harris, D. J. Nutt
108 citations
This study used a web-based questionnaire to investigate user perceptions of the benefits and harms of hallucinogenic drug use. Over 600 forms were submitted. Users were asked to comment on the acute and prolonged effects of different drugs and to provide more specific information on how particular drugs have harmed and/or helped them. Subjects reported relatively less harm associated with the...
Neuroscience Letters
July 26, 2010
Ye-Ha Jung, Do‐hyung Kang, Joon Hwan Jang et al.
This study was designed to assess the association between stress, positive affect and catecholamine levels in meditation and control groups. The meditation group consisted of 67 subjects who regularly engaged in mind-body training of "Brain-Wave Vibration" and the control group consisted of 57 healthy subjects. Plasma catecholamine (norepinephrine (NE), epinephrine (E), and dopamine (DA))...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 8, 2010
Adela Pinch
In this chapter, I follow the thread of the previous chapter's investigation of nineteenth-century accounts of mental causation into the later decades of the century. The preceding chapter demonstrated that a focus on consciousness as a form of action could reveal strange philosophical bedfellows in the 1830s – a quirky but compelling idealist such as James Frederick Ferrier, and believers in...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 8, 2010
Adela Pinch
In nineteenth-century Britain, the story of thinking about other people was inseparable from the story of the struggle between the different intellectual disciplines that took thinking about other people as their proper business. The tension between psychology and philosophy – overlapping, but increasingly discrete, disciplines – forms a crucial context for this chapter and the next. This...
The open neuroimaging journal
July 8, 2010
Giulio Benedetti, Giorgio Marchetti, Alexander A Fingelkurts et al.
Despite allowing for the unprecedented visualization of brain functional activity, modern neurobiological techniques have not yet been able to provide satisfactory answers to important questions about the relationship between brain and mind. The aim of this paper is to show how two different but complementary approaches, Mind Operational Semantics (OS) and Brain Operational Architectonics (OA),...
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
July 7, 2010
The Editors
In a recent article entitled 'The Mind-Body Problem at Century's Turn', 1 one of the leading thinkers in contemporary philosophy of mind, Jaegwon Kim, observes that '[t]hrough much of the twentieth century, especially during the second half, debates over the mindbody problem were shaped by physicalism', that is, the metaphysical belief that 'all things that exist in this world are bits of...
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
July 7, 2010
Pierfrancesco Basile
33 citations
Abstract Although panpsychism has had a very long history, one that goes back to the very origin of western philosophy, its force has only recently been appreciated by analytic philosophers of mind. And even if many still reject the theory as utterly absurd, others have argued that it is the only genuine form of physicalism. This paper examines the case for panpsychism and argues that there are...
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
July 7, 2010
Kenneth Aizawa
13 citations
Abstract In the extended mind literature, one sometimes finds the claim that there is no neural correlate of consciousness. Instead, there is a biological or ecological correlate of consciousness. Consciousness, it is claimed, supervenes on an entire organism in action. Alva Noë is one of the leading proponents of such a view. This paper resists Noë's view. First, it challenges the evidence he...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 6, 2010
Eugene Taylor
39 citations
William James anticipated that his views on a science of consciousness would have an impact even decades after he had passed away in 1910. His evolving model of consciousness is reviewed as it developed between the 1860s and the early 1900s. As a result of these investigations, James developed a metaphysics of pragmatism, pluralism, and radical empiricism to answer the question of how waking...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
July 2010
Ralf-Peter Behrendt
Recent advances in understanding hippocampal information processing offer new vistas on the mind-body and binding problems. Information encoded by the autoassociation network of cornu ammonis 3 (CA3) situates landmarks and objects within an allocentric framework of space and time. Guiding locomotion across the spatial environment, and generally organizing behaviour that transcends space and...