Amsterdam University Press eBooks
December 31, 2008
Pannill Camp
1 citation
Pannill CampHusserlian phenomenology , long a critical apparatus employed by theatre and performance scholars, is already infiltrated by a theatrical mode of thought that is more or less explicit in much of Husserl 's philosophy.It has chimerically incorporated the architecture of the theatre in the mode of the Western, frontally oriented, proscenium stage.Supporting such a claim requires a...
Naturalism in Question
December 15, 2008
J. Mcdowell
The contrast between the space of reasons and the realm of law to which Sellars implicitly appeals was not available before modern times. Ancient philosophers didn't feel a tension between the idea that knowledge is a normative status and the idea of an exercise of natural powers. Therefore the contrast Sellars draws can set an agenda for philosophy nowadays. I want to distinguish two ways of...
Hyle
December 1, 2008
J. Earley
By the 1960s many, perhaps most, philosophers had adopted ‘physicalism’ – the view that physical causes fully account for mental activities. However, controversy persists about what counts as ‘physical causes’. ‘Reductive’ physicalists recognize only microphysical (elementary-particle-level) causality. Many, perhaps most, physicalists are ‘non-reductive’ – they hold that entities considered by...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 1, 2008
George A. Mashour, Eric LaRock
Philosophical (p-) zombies are constructs that possess all of the behavioral features and responses of a sentient human being, yet are not conscious. P-zombies are intimately linked to the hard problem of consciousness and have been invoked as arguments against physicalist approaches. But what if we were to invert the characteristics of p-zombies? Such an inverse (i-) zombie would possess all...
Activitas Nervosa Superior
September 1, 2008
S. Reinis
Abstract According to our hypothesis presented here, the human mind is a process depending on interactions of masses of mainly cortical neurons connected by biochemical, electrical and quantum factors into a massive system. The consciousness is dependent on the additional communication between particles, in particular between electrons. The Pauli repulsive exchange mechanism and other...
Social Science Open Access Repository
July 4, 2008
Wolff‐Michael Roth
11 citations
ognitive phenomenology is a particular variant of phenomenology originally articulated by philosophers and further developed to work in conjunction with cognitive science. Based on strict method it is suited to work with a science that takes person-in-situation as its unit of analysis and acknowledges that persons act in their subjective lifeworlds rather than in objectively given material...
Cortex
June 6, 2008
Devin B. Terhune
60 citations
The visual content of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) has received little attention but a number of theories of OBEs include implicit predictions regarding the determinants of this phenomenological feature. Hypnagogic imagery and unusual sleep experiences, weak synaesthesia and preference for employing object and spatial visual imagic cognitive styles were psychometrically measured along with...
arXiv Preprint Archive
May 1, 2008
Henry P. Stapp
preprint
Defects occasioned by the advent of quantum mechanics are described in detail of recent arguments by John Searle and by Jaegwon Kim pertaining to the question of the complete reducibility to the physical of the apparent capacity of a person's conscious thoughts to affect the behaviour of that person's physically described brain.
CNS Spectrums
March 1, 2008
Gilles Fénelon
ABSTRACT: Psychosis in Parkinson's disease refers to a combination of hallucinations and delusions occurring with a clear sensorium and a chronic course. Hallucinations may involve several sensory modalities. Complex visual hallucinations are the most common type. “Minor” hallucinatory phenomena are frequently present and include visual illusions, passage hallucinations, and sense of presence....
Transcultural Psychiatry
March 1, 2008
John Belanti, Mahendra Perera, Karuppiah Jagadheesan
64 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) include a set of subjective experiences encountered by people who were close to death or were faced with life-threatening situations. Reports have suggested that the phenomenology of NDE might differ across cultures. This article is aimed at providing an updated phenomenological perspective by comparing NDEs in a cross-cultural context. We compared the various...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2008
Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays
11 citations
Article exploring the phenomenon of a near-death experiencer's veridical perceptions during the out-of-body experience (OBE), which strongly suggests the existence of a self-conscious mind as a "field of consciousness," a region of space where a person's consciousness exists.
Cortex
2008
Jirí Wackermann, Peter Pütz, Carsten Allefeld
Ganzfeld, i.e., exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field, elicits in most observers pseudo-hallucinatory percepts, and may even induce global functional state changes ('altered states of consciousness'). The present paper gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenology of subjective experience in the ganzfeld and its electrophysiological correlates. Laboratory techniques for...
Encyclopaideia
2008
Gilla Cauli
1 citation
The aim of this article is to highlight how important it is that the complex field of the study of the mind is interdisciplinary in nature. This is done by looking at some clinical and biological aspects of psychiatry as well as by underlining the importance of the first stages of life for the correct metacognitive development of an individual. Metacognition is fundamental for interaction...
eScholarship@McGill
2008
Michelle Rebidoux
This study looks at the phenomenological work of 20th century French thinker Michel Henry (1922-2002). Not yet widely known to an English audience, his work has recently been attracting a growing readership among students of phenomenology as well as among those interested in the so-called 'return of religion' since the last quarter of the 20th century. For those interested in the relation of...
Religion and the Arts
2008
James Morley
AbstractYoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more...
Novartis Foundation symposium
2008
Daniel C Javitt
Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects up to 1% of the population worldwide. Traditional models of schizophrenia have emphasized dopaminergic dysfunction. Over the last 15 years, however, glutamatergic models have become increasingly mainstream, and account for features of the disorder that are poorly explained by dopaminergic dysfunction alone. Glutamatergic models, such as...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
2008
Cynthia Gayman
440 citations
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08093575 2008; 14; 129 Body Society Bryan S. Turner Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore pp. 256, ISBN 978 0 521 67587 1 paperback, $24.99 Reviewed by Bryan S. by Richard Shusterman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
2008
Jerry L Grenard
12 citations
AbstractZen students described their experiences when working with koans, and a phenomenological method was used to identify the structure of those experiences. Zen koans are statements or stories developed in China and Japan by Zen masters in order to help students transform their conscious awareness of the world. Eight participants including 3 females and 5 males from Southern California with...
Psychopathology
2008
Barnaby Nelson, Louis Sass
24 citations
While considerable research attention has been devoted to the causal relationship between substance use and psychosis, the phenomenology of the association between the two has largely been ignored. This is a significant shortcoming, because it blinds researchers to the possibility that there may be elements of the subjective experience of substance use and psychosis that contribute to their...
Archive for the Psychology of Religion
2008
William A. Richards
19 citations
Accompanying the resumption of human research with the entheogen (psychedelic drug), psilocybin, the range of states of consciousness reported during its action, including both nonmystical and mystical forms of experience, is surveyed and defined. The science and art of facilitating mystical experiences is discussed on the basis of research experience. The potential religious import of these...