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Naturalism in Question December 15, 2008 J. Mcdowell
The contrast between the space of reasons and the realm of law to which Sellars implicitly appeals was not available before modern times. Ancient philosophers didn't feel a tension between the idea that knowledge is a normative status and the idea of an exercise of natural powers. Therefore the contrast Sellars draws can set an agenda for philosophy nowadays. I want to distinguish two ways of...
Biological Bulletin December 1, 2008 Giorgio A Ascoli, Alexei V Samsonovich
Human beings have direct access to their own mental states, but can only indirectly observe cosmic radiation and enzyme kinetics. Why then can we measure the temperature of far away galaxies and the activation constant of kinases to the third digit, yet we only gauge our happiness on a scale from 1 to 7? Here we propose a radical research paradigm shift to embrace the subjective conscious mind...
Studies in history and philosophy of science December 2008 Claudia M Schmidt
One of the perennially intriguing questions regarding Kant's approach to the human sciences is the relation between his 'transcendental psychology' and empirical cognitive psychology. In this paper I compare his analysis of the a priori conditions of human cognition in the Critique of pure reason with his empirical account of the human cognitive faculties in his Anthropology from a pragmatic...
Hyle December 1, 2008 J. Earley
By the 1960s many, perhaps most, philosophers had adopted ‘physicalism’ – the view that physical causes fully account for mental activities. However, controversy persists about what counts as ‘physical causes’. ‘Reductive’ physicalists recognize only microphysical (elementary-particle-level) causality. Many, perhaps most, physicalists are ‘non-reductive’ – they hold that entities considered by...
Consciousness and Cognition December 1, 2008 George A. Mashour, Eric LaRock
Philosophical (p-) zombies are constructs that possess all of the behavioral features and responses of a sentient human being, yet are not conscious. P-zombies are intimately linked to the hard problem of consciousness and have been invoked as arguments against physicalist approaches. But what if we were to invert the characteristics of p-zombies? Such an inverse (i-) zombie would possess all...
Journal of Religion and Health December 1, 2008 Curtis W Hart 6 citations
This essay addresses the familial, religious, and cultural context for the writing and presentation of William James' classic work The Varieties of Religious Experience. The essay emphasizes the importance of the impact of Henry James, Senior, upon his son. This relationship along with a severe cardiac condition contributed to James' taking on and carrying through with his exploration of...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy November 21, 2008 Robert J. Howell 87 citations
A purely metaphysical formulation of physicalism is surprisingly elusive. One popular slogan is, ‘There is nothing over and above the physical’. Problems with this arise on two fronts. First, it is difficult to explain what makes a property ‘physical’ without appealing to the methodology of physics or to particular ways in which properties are known. This obviously introduces epistemic features...
Progress in Neurobiology November 2008 Damon J Mitchell, Neil McNaughton, Danny Flanagan et al.
Electrical recordings from the surface of the skull have a wide range of rhythmic components. A major task of analysis of this EEG is to determine their source and functional significance. The hippocampal "theta rhythm" has been extensively studied in rats and its rhythmicity has recently been shown to be functionally significant, per se. Here, we use relevant aspects of the hippocampal...
Oxford University Press eBooks October 29, 2008 Benjamin D. Koen
Chapter 7 builds upon the concepts of unity and oneness, and the dynamics of balance and vibration, to frame the roles that music, sound, prayer, breath, movement, and meditation play in recalibrating one’s being from a state of imbalance or illness to one of health and vitality. Specifically, this chapter explores the physics and metaphysics of sound and music, linking the Heisenberg...
Educational Media Reviews Online October 29, 2008 Jessica Schomberg
Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764)Produced by Freedom Behind Bars ProductionsDirected by Jenny Phillips, Andrew Kukura, and Anne Marie Stein2007, DVD, color, 76 min. This film documents a program to teach Vipassana (Insight Meditation) to inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Alabama. The intensity of the program...