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The End of Magic May 15, 1997 Ariel Glucklich
AbstractPhenomenology and system theory are the foundations of the “magical experience.” They offer a way out of the body/mind impasse. Magic, taken as an experience rather than as a doctrine, is the very consciousness of an overall interactional system that defies the logic of composite parts. The philosophical and anthropological underpinnings of this claim can be found in part in the...
The End of Magic May 15, 1997 Ariel Glucklich
AbstractWhat is magic? What does magic do? Why do people believe in magic in the face of experience? After living in the Indian city of Banaras and making several trips to tribal areas in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Orissa, the author of this chapter discovered a surprising fact: magic is rarely a simple matter of belief. Few magicians and clients in Banaras ever ask themselves why their...
Journal of Near-Death Studies March 1, 1997 P. Fenwick
Karl Jansen's interesting hypothesis that near-death experiences (NDEs) result from blockade of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor has several weaknesses. Some NDEs occur to individuals who are neither near death nor experiencing any event likely to upset cerebral physiology as Jansen proposed; thus his hypothesis applies only to a subset of NDEs that occur in catastrophic circumstances. For...
Psychophysiology January 1997 F Travis, R K Wallace
In two experiments, we investigated physiological correlates of transcendental consciousness during Transcendental Meditation sessions. In the first, experimenter-initiated bells, based on observed physiological patterns, marked three phases during a Transcendental Meditation session in 16 individuals. Interrater reliability between participant and experimenter classification of experiences at...
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky 1997 Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock
The three words given in the title of our essay—mind, consciousness, the unconscious— not only stand for three central and fundamental psychological issues. They are to a much greater extent methodological issues, i.e., issues about principles of the formation of psychological science itself. This was superbly expressed by Lipps^2 [1897, p. 146] in his well-known definition of the problem of...
November 21, 1996 Michael Della Rocca
Abstract This first extensive study of Spinoza’s philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher’s thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind’s relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza’s positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality October 1, 1996 Thomas Natsoulas
Consciousness and self-awareness—how are they mutually related? This contribution to the present series of articles begins to consider replies to this question from the Jamesian perspective of The Principles. First, several relevant senses of consciousness are made explicit. Then, I give attention to James's notion of personal consciousness: How do the basic durational components of a stream of...
September 13, 1996 Sydney Shoemaker
Sydney Shoemaker is one of the most influential philosophers currently writing on philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds, and with the nature of those mental states of which we have our most direct conscious awareness. Professor Shoemaker opposes the 'inner sense' conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends...
Current Opinion in Psychiatry September 1, 1996 Jennifer Radden 4 citations
Recent research about the nature of mental or functional disorder, its classification and etiology acknowledges underlying methodological and metaphysical theory.In such broad attempts to understand mental disorder and the science and practice of psychiatry, the philosophy of mind is increasingly recognized as playing an important and helpful role.
Sociological Quarterly September 1, 1996 Alan Blum 18 citations
Fear is the extreme expression of narrow-minded and stupid seriousness which is defeated by laughter. Complete liberty is only possible in the completely fearless world. Mikhail Bakhtin