Social Work in Health Care
2009
Mark J Brenner
The use of Zen Buddhist meditation in clinical practice has received specific attention from mental health disciplines in the West. A study was undertaken to examine the influence of a personal practice of Zen on the professional work of clinical social workers. Ten experienced clinical social workers who were long-term Zen practitioners were interviewed. Findings from this qualitative study...
December 31, 2008
Johannes L. Brandl
2 citations
aturalism in philosophy of mind is commonly associated with a materialistic or physicalistic conception of reality. This association is often made because prominent physicalists, like David Armstrong and Willard Van Orman Quine, assume a naturalistic perspective in defending
Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Philosophical Sciences
December 30, 2008
Ihor Kolesnyk
In this article author tries to show the understanding of role of unconscious in Zen, the powerful tradition of work with deepest levels of human psyche. This tradition was formed in religious and contemplative practice of school. Author states that tradition of Zen has long history and sometimes shows deeper understanding than western spiritual traditions. Also author analyzes the main idea,...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
December 30, 2008
Paul Solomom
Psychotherapists who practice Buddhist meditation can develop a heightened awareness of their own body sensations. Some psychotherapists develop the skill of using their body awareness inter-subjectively: their bodies can become sensitive instruments that resonate with the unconscious emotional and physical experiences of their patients and clients, in a form of body-based counter-transference....
Buddhist Studies Review
December 29, 2008
Martin T. Adam
1 citation
The present article aims to explain Kamala??la’s understanding of the nature of insight, specifically considering it as the ‘discernment of reality’ (bh?ta-pratyavek??) -- a technical term identified with insight (vipa?yan?) in the author’s well known Bh?van?krama? texts. I approach my analysis of bh?ta-pratyavek?? from three different angles. I begin by providing a rationale for its...
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...