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Ignorance and Imagination July 1, 2006 Daniel Stoljar
AbstractThe question “what is the problem of experience” can be divided into two: what is the topic of the problem of experience, and what problem or problems are we raising about the topic. In this chapter, the author identifies the topic: events of experience whose defining characteristic is that there is something it is like to undergo them. Conceiving of experiences this way leaves open...
Medical History July 1, 2006 Alexander C T Geppert
Corinna Treitel, A science for the soul: occultism and the genesis of the German Modern, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. x, 366, illus., £33.00 (hardback 0-8018-7812-8). - Volume 50 Issue 3
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease July 1, 2006 Charles Savage 4 citations
The book is a collection of interviews and the distilled wisdom obtained between late 1996 and mid-1998, updated and edited by eminent psychiatrists, Professors Roger Walsh and Charles Grob. The alliteratively poetic title in lower case, in green and blue with a colorful psychedelic logo, contrasts with the ashen photographs of all the participants. The book will evoke nostalgia in anyone who...
June 29, 2006 Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner
Abstract The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum...
June 10, 2006 V. Fontana
This work deals with a contemporary interpretation of the cartesian work, especially the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. The article intends to present and discuss the importance of founding the proof to the existence of material things, present in the sixth meditation, in the ideas of the mind, exposed in the third meditation. The aim is to explain the correlation between the material things...
Philosophy Compass May 1, 2006 Rebecca Copenhaver
Abstract Thomas Reid’s epistemological ambitions are decisively at the center of his work. However, if we take such ambitions to be the whole story, we are apt to overlook the theory of mind that Reid develops and deploys against the theory of ideas. Reid’s philosophy of mind is sophisticated and strikingly contemporary, and has, until recently, been lost in the shadow of his other...
April 13, 2006 Jim Horne
Abstract Whereas the mental activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is intense, visual, and florid, more tranquil thoughts and imagery do occur during the rest of sleep, which sleep researchers refer to as ‘thinking’ or ‘mentation’. Sometimes, however, what appears to be real dreaming can be found in non-REM sleep. Other interesting visual states exist in and around sleep for some people,...
Philosophy East and West April 1, 2006 Jay L. Garfield 30 citations
rJe Tsong khapa argues that consciousness is not intrinsically reflexive even conventionally, and reads Candrakīrti and Śāntideva as endorsing this view. 'Ju Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) criticizes Tsong khapa's argument and his reading of Candrakīrti, arguing that while ultimately consciousness is not intrinsically reflexive, conventionally it is. This article defends Tsong khapa's philosophy...
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry April 1, 2006 Kedar Nath Dwivedi 7 citations
In Eastern, particularly Buddhist, thinking the process of change and impermanence is an integral part of existence. All suffering in life is the result of ignorance of this basic reality. A deeper awareness and appreciation of this fact leads to enlightenment and real happiness. It is the rapidity of change that is responsible for the illusory processes that create the sense of solidity,...
Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies February 1, 2006 Rodney Taylor
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century a foreboding of crisis and impending doom was felt by European intellectuals, ideologues, and literati. Regarding Austria in particular, a widespread omen of imminent collapse in the realm of politics, prevalent among the upper classes, reflected a general awareness that the liberal ideals upon which bourgeois culture was presumed to be founded...