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Phainomenon October 1, 2003 R. Walton
Abstract This article is an attempt to clarify the role of pregivenness by drawing on the accounts afforded by Eugen Fink both in the Sixth Cartesian Meditation and in the complementary writings to this study. Pregivenness is first situated, along with givenness and non-givenness, within the framework of the system of transcendental phenomenology. As a second step, an examination is undertaken...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis October 1, 2003 Akira Otani
In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Eastern healing framework out of which these techniques emerged is examined in comparison with and in contrast to its Western counterpart. A growing body of empirical literature shows that meditation and hypnosis...
Identity, Cause, and Mind September 4, 2003 Sydney Shoemaker
Abstract In his recent paper “Are Absent Qualia Impossible?” (hereafter AAQI),1 Ned Block attempts to rebut an argument I gave for an affirmative answer to his title question in my paper, “Functionalism and Qualia” (hereafter F&Q).2 The issues raised by this controversy go far beyond the question of whether a particular argument of mine is successful. The question of what account we are to give...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2003 Ashwin Budden
In this paper, critique the classic psychoanalytic anthropological construal of dissociative spirit possession as a pathological phenomenon. I review some of the relevant theoretical and ethnographic literature on this subject but focus on the work of two prominent psychoanalytic anthropologists to explore divergent views of the psychological nature of pathological and religious experience....
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2003 Robin Rodd
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge derived from visionary experiences. Märipa is an epistemology concerning the translation of knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness, induced primarily through the consumption of plant hallucinogens, to practical effect during waking life. I integrate mythological,...
Ethnography September 1, 2003 Kathryn Linn Geurts
Anlo-Ewe generally refers to a dialect of the Ewe language spoken in southeastern Ghana, with Anlo designating an ethnolinguistic group whose homeland is on a littoral between the Keta Lagoon and the sea. Etymologically, however, Anlo derives from the Ewe term ‘nlo’ which means rolling up or folding into oneself. This article describes moments of ethnographic fieldwork that led to tracing links...
Zhong xi yi jie he xue bao = Journal of Chinese integrative medicine July 2003 Hai-Zhong Jia
Enlightened by the idea of correlation of mind and body in traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, integrating his long-term clinical experience, the author brings forward a concise and practical theory for diagnosis and treatment based on the correlation between consciousness and organ in this article. This article includes:(1)introducing the conceptions of consciousness and...
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience July 1, 2003 Ronald T. Coutts 4 citations
This paperback publication has 428 pages of text, an additional 131 pages of references and an 18-page subject index. The text is organized in 10 chapters, each liberally endowed with relevant figures and tables. The first 3 chapters (72 pages) are very useful because they contain numerous definitions and introduce the reader to neuroscientific and pharmacological topics that appear throughout...
Advances in Consciousness Research June 30, 2003 Paula Droege
A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness offers to explain what these conscious sensory states have in common, by virtue of...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences June 2003 J David Smith, Wendy E Shields, David A Washburn
There was a strong consensus in the commentaries that animals' performances in metacognition paradigms indicate high-level decisional processes that cannot be explained associatively. Our response summarizes this consensus and the support for the idea that these performances demonstrate animal metacognition. We amplify the idea that there is an adaptive advantage favoring animals who can - in...