The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
March 1, 1995
Rick J. Strassman
90 citations
Clinical research with hallucinogens has resumed after a generation's hiatus. To place these new studies in context, this article reviews the history of hallucinogens' use and abuse, discusses their pharmacological properties, and highlights previous human studies. Research with lysergic acid diethylamide and related hallucinogens with thousands of patients and control subjects was associated...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
January 27, 1995
Sergio Moravia
THE LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE MENTAL AND ITS VARIANTS In the preceding two chapters we pointed out the unquestionable merits as well as the limits of the proposals advanced by functionalism and by the other ‘reformist’ version of the identity theory. These proposals helped ‘liberalize’ the reflection on the mbp and orient it in new and stimulating directions. They have, however, been...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
January 27, 1995
Sergio Moravia
PUTNAM: THE ATTACK ON MATERIALISM AND PHYSICALISM In the debate engaging the contemporary philosophy of mind the functionalist movement has proved to be an extremely lively, complex, and epistemologically formidable contender. Functionalism has addressed themes and issues of crucial importance to the mindbody relationship: the nature of mental states, the structure of psychological explanation,...
January 27, 1995
Sergio Moravia
Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid critical and historical survey of one of the fundamental debates in the philosophy of mind - the relationship of mind and body. This problem continues to raise deep questions concerning the nature of man. The book has two central aims. First, Professor Moravia sketches the...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1995
David Lorimer
The near-death experience (NDE) is a challenging and even disturbing phenomenon: it calls into question the assumptions of a materialistic science and medicine which insists that mind is a by-product of brain function and that it cannot, therefore, conceivably survive the disintegration of the brain; it also impinges on the ecclesiastical territory of the afterlife — or at least of its...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1995
J. Kenneth Arnette
9 citations
Article discussing the theory of essence, based on the physics of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, which solves the problem of interaction resulting from Descartes's dualistic conception of human nature. The theory is empirically based in phenomena consistently reported by near-death experiencers.
Philosophical Issues
1995
Jaegwon Kim
53 citations
The problem of mental causation, broadly, is that of explaining how it is possible for mental events to enter into causal relations with other events, whether mental or physical. Somewhat more narrowly, it is the problem of explaining how it is possible for mental events to causally affect the (physical) behavior of physical systems. Although the problem was coeval with the mind-body problem...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1995
Edward Moss
Dennett is an excellent communicator of complex ideas, and his book of some 500 pages provides a useful conspectus of the current state of cognitive science, including a number of areas of controversy. Many highly specialized disciplines are involved and Dennett rightly makes it a virtue that he has tried, ‘with unabashed eclecticism’, to build a coherent theory, looking across the whole field....
eScholarship@McGill
1995
Jacqueline Gail Bowering
This thesis examines traditional and contemporary perspectives on the nature of spirituality. Its aim is to provide a basis for a programme or course on spirituality that would be relevant and meaningful for students in multicultural settings. The main theme unifying the diverse traditions and perspectives examined in the thesis relates to the interconnectivity of all life within the Universe....
Philosophical Perspectives
1995
Robert van Gulick
15 citations
Intentionality and phenomenal consciousness are the two traditional defining characteristics of the mental. Paradigmatically mental states have both, and both serve to anchor our basic concept of what it is for to be mental. When I have a visual experience of my office laid out before me, my mental state is clearly about or directed at in the intentional sense. My experience is an experience of...