Philosophies
December 6, 2017
Robert Prentner
This perspective examines the role of chemistry and molecular biology for a science of consciousness. Opposed to the consensus view, we argue that the molecular organization of biological systems is key to arrive at a thorough understanding of the dynamics correlated to the phenomenology of consciousness in complex organisms. This is indicated by the fact that the molecular sciences either...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
December 1, 2017
Brian J Ford
Traditions of Eastern thought conceptualised life in a holistic sense, emphasising the processes of maintaining health and conquering sickness as manifestations of an essentially spiritual principle that was of overriding importance in the conduct of living. Western science, which drove the overriding and partial eclipse of Eastern traditions, became founded on a reductionist quest for ultimate...
November 28, 2017
F. K. Jansen
Chalmers introduced the hard problem of consciousness as a profound gap between experience and physical concepts. Philosophical theories were based on different interpretations concerning the qualia/concept gap, such as interactive dualism (Descartes), as well as mono aspect or dual aspect monism. From a bio-psychological perspective, the gap can be explained by the different activity of two...
Filozofska istraživanja
November 23, 2017
Olga Nikolić
SažetakTekst istražuje pravac u suvremenoj fenomenologiji i kognitivnoj znanosti koji teži inter disciplinarnoj suradnji dvije discipline.Pažljivim proučavanjem konstitutivne uloge živog tijela (Leib) za svijest i kogniciju, autori poput Varele, Thompsona, Gallaghera i Zahavija razvijaju novu istraživačku paradigmu da bi na originalan način nadišli tradicionalni du alizam duha i tijela.Najprije...
Scientific Reports
November 16, 2017
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al.
111 citations
Altered states of consciousness, such as psychotic or pharmacologically-induced hallucinations, provide a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms underlying conscious perception. However, the phenomenological properties of these states are difficult to isolate experimentally from other, more general physiological and cognitive effects of psychoactive substances or psychopathological...
November 15, 2017
Evan Thompson
This paper is a commentary on Dan Arnold's book, Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind, presented at the Toshide Numata Book Prize Symposium, "Taking Buddhist Philosophy of Mind Seriously," University of California, Berkeley, November 15, 2013.
bioRxiv Preprint Server
November 3, 2017
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al.
2 citations
preprint
Altered states of consciousness, such as psychotic or pharmacologically-induced hallucinations, provide a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms underlying conscious perception. However, the phenomenological properties of these states are difficult to isolate experimentally from other, more general physiological and cognitive effects of psychoactive substances or psychopathological...
November 2, 2017
Elisabeth Pacherie
11 citations
Phenomenology understood as a field of enquiry rather than as a movement in the history of philosophy, is concerned with the study of subjective experience and investigates the structure and nature of various types of conscious experiences. One might take collective phenomenology to be concerned with the study of group consciousness, of the subjective states of collectives qua collectives. But...
International Journal of Medical Research and Review
October 31, 2017
D. V. Pal, Dr. Stuti Rastogi, Dr. Amrita Chauhan et al.
2 citations
Background: Therehas been plethora of research regarding cannabis use disorder but very few studies reported demographic and phenomenological differences of acute psychosis with cannabis use to those of acute psychosis without cannabis use. This study attempted to evaluate the demographic and phenomenology differences between two groups of patients presenting with acute psychosis with cannabis...
October 26, 2017
R. Mercer
Abstract Work in what has been known as the theological turn in French phenomenology describes the way in which human beings are always, already open to a religious encounter. This paper will focus on Levinas as a proper transcendental phenomenologist as would be characterized by parts of Husserl and Husserl’s last assistant Eugen Fink. What Levinas does in his phenomenology of the face/other...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 2017
Enzo Tagliazucchi
Conscious awareness refers to information processing in the brain that is accompanied by subjective, reportable experiences. Current models of conscious access propose that sufficiently strong sensory stimuli ignite a global network of regions allowing further processing. The immense number of possible experiences indicates that activity associated with conscious awareness must be highly...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 1, 2017
Peter Carruthers, Bénédicte Veillet
43 citations
This paper revisits the debate about cognitive phenomenology. It elaborates, defends, and improves on our earlier proposal for resolving that debate, according to which the test for irreducible phenomenology is the presence of explanatory gaps. After showing how proposals like ours have been misunderstood or misused by others, we deploy our operationalization to argue that the correct way to...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
September 29, 2017
Noelia Bueno-Gómez
This article aims to contribute to a better conceptualization of pain and suffering by providing non-essential and non-naturalistic definitions of both phenomena. Contributions of classical evidence-based medicine, the humanistic turn in medicine, as well as the phenomenology and narrative theories of suffering and pain, together with certain conceptions of the person beyond them (the mind-body...
The MIT Press
September 21, 2017
Michael Madary
The main argument of the book is as follows: (1) The descriptive premise: The phenomenology of vision is best described as an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. (2) The empirical premise: There are strong empirical reasons to model vision using the general form of anticipation and fulfillment. (AF) Conclusion: Visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 21, 2017
Shaun Gallagher
59 citations
I defend a phenomenological account of the sense of ownership as part of a minimal sense of self from those critics who propose either a deflationary or eliminativist critique. Specifically, I block the deflationary critique by showing that in fact the phenomenological account is itself a deflationary account insofar as it takes the sense of ownership to be implicit or intrinsic to experience...
Exchange
September 1, 2017
Joseph S. O’Leary
Abstract: Experiences of ‘presence’ are common in religion. This essay attempts to approach presence along phenomenological lines, arguing that the pluralism of the phenomena and contexts referred to is not an obstacle to a methodologically open dialogue between different experiences. Despite the impersonalism of Buddhist conceptions of ultimate reality, personal presences play a considerable...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2017
Bethe Hagens
Abstract: Interbeing is a foundational teaching of Thiền Sư (Zen master) Thích Nhất Hạnh, beloved Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist who has worked closely with Chân Không, an expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist nun. Together they founded Plum Village retreat center in the Dordogne region of France. This volume of invited essays – taken as a whole – reveals the inspirational power of the...
Current Problems of Psychiatry
September 1, 2017
Barnaby Nelson, Louis Arnorsson Sass
29 citations
Abstract Phenomenological research indicates that disturbance of the basic sense of self may be a core phenotypic marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Basic self-disturbance refers to disruption of the sense of ownership of experience and agency of action and is associated with a variety of anomalous subjective experiences. Little is known about the neurocognitive correlates of basic...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
September 1, 2017
Georg Northoff, Zirui Huang
235 citations
Time and space are the basic building blocks of nature. As a unique existent in nature, our brain exists in time and takes up space. The brain's activity itself also constitutes and spreads in its own (intrinsic) time and space that is crucial for consciousness. Consciousness is a complex phenomenon including different dimensions: level/state, content/form, phenomenal aspects, and cognitive...
Oxford Scholarship Online
August 24, 2017
Philip Goff
This chapter outlines a consciousness-based approach to metaphysics: analytic phenomenology. Chapter 5 argued that introspection reveals the essential nature of our conscious states. Analytic phenomenology builds on this, taking our introspective grasp of the nature of consciousness as a crucial source of data for metaphysical enquiry. This methodology is explored in relation to contemporary...