Oxford Scholarship Online
June 21, 2018
Thomas Crowther
10 citations
This chapter works towards a better understanding of the contribution made by the state of wakeful consciousness to the stream of consciousness over time. It does this through reflection on what is missing in certain cases of non-wakeful consciousness. Granting the assumption that dreaming is a mode of perceptual imagination, the chapter contrasts perceptual imagination in the wakeful condition...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 20, 2018
Philipp Schmidt
The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the contributions of phenomenology-inspired approaches to the explanation of psychopathological phenomena. First, I introduce the notion of Explanatory First-Person Approaches (EFPA) which share the assumption that the explanation of consciousness and conscious phenomena necessitates, at least partially, phenomenal facts functioning as explanans....
Religions
June 12, 2018
Andreas Gonçalves Lind
1 citation
The recent debate on the notorious Anselmian proof of God’s existence, usually called the “ontological argument”, is placed within an analytic approach, since Alvin Plantinga revisited this argument beginning in the sixties and especially during the seventies. At the same time, Michel Henry contested this proof, situating the debate in a completely different area of philosophy. Henry’s critique...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 6, 2018
Christopher Gutland
The thesis of this article is that Husserl's proposed method for intuitively exploring the essential or a priori laws of consciousness is a kind of introspection. After a first reflection on the meaning of “introspection,” four elements of Husserl's methodology are introduced: the principle of all principles, epoché, phenomenological reduction, and eidetic variation. These features are then...
Therapeutische Umschau
June 2018
Daniela Hubl
Phenomenology, clinical diagnostics and treatment of hallucinations Abstract. Hallucinations are perceptions without any stimulus. They occur typically in schizophrenia, but they can be found in other psychiatric or medical disorders as well. Recently, hallucinations have been increasingly reported to occur with a high prevalence in the general population and they are conceptualised as...
Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science
June 1, 2018
Jingzhu Zhang, Qiaohua Ren
2 citations
Since the 21st century, philosophical epistemology and methodology have been greatly affected by phenomenology. The most representative view is that in neuroscience research, there is a phenomenological method to illustrate consciousness. Firstly, neurophenomenology combines first-person phenomenological methods with third-person neuroscience methods to deal with “hard” problem. Secondly, from...
Journal of Education and Educational Development
May 30, 2018
Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Phenomenology as a philosophy and a method of inquiry is not limited to an approach to knowing, it is rather an intellectual engagement in interpretations and meaning making that is used to understand the lived world of human beings at a conscious level. Historically, Husserl’ (1913/1962) perspective of phenomenology is a science of understanding human beings at a deeper level by gazing at the...
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
May 28, 2018
Élodie Boublil
53 citations
In the preface of Precarious Life, the Powers of Mourning and Violence, Judith Butler writes: To be injured means that one has the chance to reflect upon injury, to find out the mechanisms of its d...
Cognitive Semiotics
May 1, 2018
Jordan Zlatev
63 citations
Abstract The paper rethinks a proposal for a unified cognitive semiotic framework, The Semiotic Hierarchy, in explicitly phenomenological terms, following above all the work of Merleau-Ponty. The main changes to the earlier formulation of the theory are the following. First, the claim that a general concept of meaning can be understood as the value-based relationship between the subject and the...
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
April 30, 2018
Rudolph Bauer
Este artículo explora la fenomenología de la conciencia como la naturaleza misma del tantra. El documento también aborda fenomenológicamente la naturaleza de la praxis tántrica. A través de estas fenomenologías se produce una convergencia de entendimiento sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia como tantra y tantra como la naturaleza misma de la conciencia humana. Gran parte del énfasis en este...
Oxford Scholarship Online
April 19, 2018
Joseph Levine
In this paper I address the debate over the existence and nature of “cognitive phenomenology,” the alleged contribution to phenomenal consciousness made by non-sensory, cognitive states. I distinguish various versions of the position that there is cognitive phenomenology, evaluate what I take to be the two principal arguments for its existence, and then conclude that only one of the weaker...
April 19, 2018
Michael S. Robbins
Primordial consciousness and its language undergirds numerous phenomena of everyday life. In addition to dreaming and mother-infant bonding, which were described in chapter 4 . Several of these are described, including the manifestly pathological (psychosis), and more ordinary phenomena including belief systems, ordinary and extreme, altered states of consciousness whose manifestations can seem...
April 17, 2018
Mark Solms
1 citation
This chapter explains the hard problem of consciousness and neuropsychoanalytic approach. The fact of unconscious mental processes applies equally to perception and cognition. It is possible to see without awareness, blindsight, recognize without awareness, read without awareness, learn without awareness, remember without awareness, and make decisions without awareness. Subjective consciousness...
Avant
April 6, 2018
Zsuzsanna Kondor
Various theories suggest conscious phenomena are based exclusively on brain activity, while others regard them as a result of the interaction between embodied agents and their environment. In this paper, I will consider whether this divergence entails the acceptance of the fact that different theories can be applied in different scales (as in the case of physics), or if they are reconcilable. I...
Oxford Handbooks Online
April 5, 2018
Zachary C. Irving, Evan Thompson
This chapter provides an introduction to the philosophy of mind-wandering. It begins with a philosophical critique of the standard psychological definitions of mind-wandering as task-unrelated thought or stimulus-independent thought. Although these definitions have helped bring mind-wandering research onto center stage in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, they have substantial limitations....
Oxford Handbooks Online
April 5, 2018
Tore Nielsen
1 citation
The fleeting dream images of sleep onset afford a rare glimpse at how experience is transformed from the perceptually grounded consciousness of wakefulness to the hallucinatory simulations of dreaming. These images, or microdreams, are briefer, simpler, and more accessible to phenomenological scrutiny than are the long REM dreams traditionally recorded in the sleep lab. This chapter shows that...
Oxford University Press eBooks
April 5, 2018
Michael Lifshitz, Eli Oda Sheiner, Laurence J. Kirmayer
22 citations
This chapter explores psychedelics as catalysts of spontaneous thought. Classic serotonergic psychedelics such as psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca can induce potent alterations in cognition and perception. The chapter reviews research on these substances through the lens of cultural neurophenomenology, which aims to trace how neurobiology and sociocultural factors interact to shape experience....
Australasian Philosophical Review
April 3, 2018
Shaun Gallagher
71 citations
Resistance to the idea that phenomenology can be relevant to cognitive scientific explanation has faced two objections advanced, respectively, from both sides of the issue: from the scientific perspective it has been suggested that phenomenology, understood as an account of first-person experience, is ultimately reducible to cognitive neuroscientific explanation; and from a phenomenological...
Psychosis
April 3, 2018
Nev Jones, Cherise Rosen, Sarah R. Kamens et al.
12 citations
Purpose Over the past twenty years, few empirical studies have focused on manifestations of sex, sexual identity, and gender within the phenomenology of psychosis. The goal of the present analysis was to explore themes related to gender and sexuality among individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. Methods We conducted a qualitative analysis of 25 in-depth phenomenological interviews and...
Australasian Philosophical Review
April 3, 2018
María Jimena Clavel Vázquez, Michael A. Wheeler
3 citations
In ‘Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science’, Gallagher [2019 Gallagher, Shaun 2019. Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive Science, Australasian Philosophical Review 2/2: 125–37. [Google Scholar]] sets out to overcome resistance to the idea that phenomenology is relevant to cognitive science. He argues that the relevance in question...