Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
September 1, 1996
William Seager, Jaegwon Kim
458 citations
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect...
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
September 1, 1996
Barrie Falk
There is a common view that as well as being conscious of the world in virtue of having thoughts about it, forming representations of its various states and processes, we are also conscious of it in virtue of feeling it. What I have in mind is not the fact that we have feelings about the world—indignation at this, pleasure at that—but that we sensorily feel its colours, sounds, textures and so...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 1996
Dan Lloyd
1 citation
Commentary on “Searle and the ‘Deep Unconscious’” Dan Lloyd (bio) Can another person know my thoughts with better authority than I know them myself? With his affirmative answer to this question, Freud invented the twentieth-century human, a being whose mind is accessible to scrutiny from outside, and whose attempts at conscious self-explanation are at best partial and in many cases wrong. Even...
Shadows of the Mind
August 22, 1996
Roger Penrose
Abstract What is the ultimate scope of science? Is it just the material attributes of our universe that are amenable to its methods, whereas our mental existence must forever lie outside its compass? Or might we someday come to a proper scientific understanding of the shadowy mystery of minds? Is the phenomenon of human consciousness something that is beyond the scope of scientific enquiry, or...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
August 13, 1996
Sara Rappe
46 citations
Plotinus anticipates Descartes in arguing both that the soul as subject of perception cannot be an extended substance, as well as in arguing that the mind necessarily knows itself. Like Descartes, Plotinus also invokes an introspective or subjective stance within his dialectical procedure. Methodologically, it will be seen, Plotinus shares along with Descartes in a tradition of philosophy of...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1996
A Lequerica
The psychophysiological properties of the lucid dream state were examined to evaluate the relationship between lucid and nonlucid dreaming, emphasizing the fact that the components of self-reflectiveness and other cognitive features commonly associated with lucid dreams occur in all dreams to various extents. Although lucid dreams are clearly toward one end of the continuum, they still share...
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
August 1, 1996
S Nagatomo, G Leisman
8 citations
This paper addresses a need to re-examine the mind-body dualism established since Descartes. Descartes' dualism has been regarded by modern philosophers as an extremely insufficient solution to the problem of mind and body, from which is derived a long opposition in modern epistomology between idealism and empiricism. This dualism, bifurcating the region of spirit and matter, and the...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
July 1, 1996
David Tresan
33 citations
This paper deals with brain research and depth psychology. Because brain research is becoming significantly more sophisticated and increasingly able to assay the neurobiology of subjective (i.e., mental) events in vivo, it is suggested that any school of depth psychology will probably not survive as a mainstream treatment modality if its theory and practice is found to be in frank variance with...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 1, 1996
Gary F. Kelly
12 citations
Although research evidence exists concerning the efficacy of meditation in psychotherapeutic settings, therapists and counselors are often unfamiliar with meditative techniques and their usefulness. Those in professional fields frequently lack ways of bridging the gap between what may represent the spiritual domain of life and the more pragmatic concerns typically presented by clients. This...
Parergon
July 1, 1996
Francesca Bussey
1 citation
Reviews 299 function, patron, designer, choice of atelier and cultural milieu are treated very briefly in the concluding chapter. This study of a remarkably individual yet very Byzantine monument will be of enduring value. The photographs are commendably crisp and highhghts from the artificial lighting are kept to a minimum and away from thefigures.Appropriately, an Italian edition has been...