The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
February 1, 2009
Guy Kahane, Julian Savulescu
126 citations
Neuroimaging studies of brain-damaged patients diagnosed as in the vegetative state suggest that the patients might be conscious. This might seem to raise no new ethical questions given that in related disputes both sides agree that evidence for consciousness gives strong reason to preserve life. We question this assumption. We clarify the widely held but obscure principle that consciousness is...
Advances in Consciousness Research
January 14, 2009
Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble history in both Western and Eastern thought. Overlooked by analytical, materialist philosophy for...
Comparative and Continental Philosophy
January 14, 2009
Joseph P. Lawrence
Toshihiko Izutzu's Ishiki to Honshitsu, recently translated into German under the title of Bewusstsein und Wesen, represents a Zen-inspired clarification of a deep underlying tension that characterizes the figure of Socrates: on the one hand a commitment to a fully public form of discourse (thus the central role of defining one's terms) and on the other hand a recognition of the elusively...
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
January 12, 2009
Nirbhay Nand Singh, Giulio E. Lancioni, Alan S W Winton et al.
113 citations
Background The use of physical restraints has generated immense controversy in the delivery of services to individuals with intellectual disabilities. The current zeitgeist is that effective positive approaches obviate the need for using physical restraints. In a multiple baseline design, we sought to assess how training staff members in mindfulness affected their use of physical restraints for...
World Futures
January 8, 2009
Maria Armezzani
5 citations
Analyzing the outline of the endless literature on consciousness, the separation between science and philosophy rather than being overcome, seems to come back in different shapes. According to this point of view, the hard problem seems to be how to study consciousness while avoiding a slip back to the old dualism. This article outlines the advantages of the phenomenological method. This method,...
World Futures
January 8, 2009
Mauro Maldonato
19 citations
Up until only a few decades ago, not many scholars recognized scientific dignity in the problem of consciousness. In the last few years this scenario has changed. The rapid development of non-invasive research techniques that explore cerebral functions has not only increased our knowledge on the correlations between mental processes and cerebral structures, but it has fed our hopes for the...
Analytica Revista de Filosofia
2009
Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira
1 citation
Este artigo objetiva desenvolver e defender uma nova abordagem para a nocao de conteudo exiguo no âmbito da vertente nao-individualista na filosofia da mente e da teoria da informacao na semântica. Seu objetivo consiste em mostrar que o conteudo de certos estados mentais e determinado em parte pelas relacoes que o individuo entretem com as entidades do seu ambiente, mas em parte tambem pela...
International Journal of Yoga
January 2009
Sudheer Deshpande, H R Nagendra, Raghuram Nagarathna
To study the efficacy of yoga on Gunas (personality) and self esteem in normal adults through a randomized comparative study. Of the 1228 persons who attended motivational lectures, 226 subjects aged 18-71 years, of both sexes, who satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and who consented to participate in the study were randomly allocated into two groups. The Yoga (Y) group practised...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Alison Sandra Anne Pope
1 citation
Objective: To explore what can be known about the relationship between mind/body in the processes of health and wellness using the positivistic tradition of Western medical research, and to compare this to what can be known by utilizing research methods with a non-positivistic, qualitative epistemology. An evaluation of a group mind/body program provided a case example by comparing findings...
Journal of Health Psychology
January 2009
Juan M Manzaneque, Francisca M Vera, Francisco M Rodriguez et al.
Qigong is an ancient Chinese psychosomatic exercise that integrates movement, breathing and meditation into a single multifaceted practice. The present study was designed to assess the effects of qigong practice on serum cytokines, mood and subjective sleep quality. Experimental participants underwent a qigong training program for one month. Blood samples for the quantification of TNF-alpha and...