73 studies whose primary subject is philosophy of mind were published in 2020, down from 79 in 2019. Newest first. Back to the philosophy of mind overview
Husserl December 31, 2020 J. Tuckett
In a recent podcast (2012), Professor James Cox has briefly sketched an outline of the phenomenology of religion. His overview has taken broadly the concept of Husserl’s notions of epoche and the eidetic intuition and carried them through to typologies for the purpose of comparisons. Now, Cox provides us with a rather comprehensive phenomenology which, though briefly explained in the podcast,...
Philosophy Journal of the Higher School of Economics December 30, 2020 Matvey Sysoev
This paper is an introduction to William James' philosophy of mind and is intended to prepare the reader for his work “How Two Minds Can Know One Thing”. The views of William James on three topics in the philosophy of mind are considered: panpsychism, neutral monism, and combination problem. There is a very deep connection between the modern analytical philosophy of mind and the philosophy of...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 26, 2020 Vitor Manuel Dinis Pereira preprint
Given the hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers, 1995) there are no brain electrophysiological correlates of the subjective experience (the felt quality of redness or the redness of red, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field, the sound of a clarinet, the smell of mothball, bodily sensations from pains to orgasms, mental images that are conjured up...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 23, 2020 David Rudrauf, Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis, O. Belli et al. preprint
Consciousness has been hypothesized to operate as a global workspace, which accesses and integrates multimodal information in a unified manner, supports expectation violation monitoring and reduction, and the motivation, programming and control of action. One important yet open issue concerns how the subjective perspective at the core of consciousness, and subjective properties of manifestation...
arXiv Preprint Archive December 14, 2020 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Federico Faggin preprint
We explore definite theoretical assertions about consciousness, starting from a non-reductive psycho-informational solution of David Chalmers's 'hard problem', based on the hypothesis that a fundamental property of 'information' is its experience by the supporting 'system'. The kind of information involved in consciousness needs to be quantum for multiple reasons, including its intrinsic...
Edukacja Filozoficzna December 1, 2020 Tomasz Kąkol 1 citation
naukowe 37[…] how a brain (or anything else that is physical) could manage to be a locus of conscious experience… This is, surely, among the ultimate metaphysical mysteries; don't bet on anybody ever solving it. J.A. Fodor[…] we will not get very far in giving a scientific account of the relationship between consciousness and the brain unless we have a clear conception of what it is that we are...
arXiv Preprint Archive November 30, 2020 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Martin Molina, Francisco M. Mendoza preprint
This work seeks to study the beneficial properties that an autonomous agent can obtain by implementing a cognitive architecture similar to the one of conscious beings. Along this document, a conscious model of autonomous agent based in a global workspace architecture is presented. We describe how this agent is viewed from different perspectives of philosophy of mind, being inspired by their...
arXiv Preprint Archive November 7, 2020 Zakaria Djebbara, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston preprint
The perceptual experience of architecture is enacted by the sensory and motor system. When we act, we change the perceived environment according to a set of expectations that depend on our body and the built environment. The continuous process of collecting sensory information is thus based on bodily affordances. Affordances characterize the fit between the physical structure of the body and...
arXiv Preprint Archive November 6, 2020 Jason M. Pittman, Ashlyn Hanks preprint
Human-like intelligence in a machine is a contentious subject. Whether mankind should or should not pursue the creation of artificial general intelligence is hotly debated. As well, researchers have aligned in opposing factions according to whether mankind can create it. For our purposes, we assume mankind can and will do so. Thus, it becomes necessary to contemplate how to do so in a safe and...
Oxford University Press eBooks November 1, 2020 Albert R. Powers, Thomas H. McGlashan, S. Woods 5 citations
More than 100 years of retrospective studies show that psychosis is usually preceded by a prodrome. Nonspecific symptoms such as anxiety and depression precede more specific negative and attenuated positive symptoms. Prospective diagnostic criteria have been developed based on the retrospective work. The prospective criteria have shown high reliability in the research context, and follow-up...
Consciousness and Cognition November 1, 2020 Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Tarja Kallio-Tamminen 41 citations
Recently, a three-dimensional construct model for complex experiential Selfhood has been proposed (Fingelkurts, Fingelkurts, & Kallio-Tamminen, 2016b,c). According to this model, three specific subnets (or modules) of the brain self-referential network (SRN) are responsible for the manifestation of three aspects/features of the subjective sense of Selfhood. Follow up multiple studies...
Cambridge University Press eBooks October 30, 2020 Samuel Thoma 1 citation
In her article, “Microphenomenology of Chronicity in Psychosomatic Diseases: Diabetes, Anorexia, and Schizophrenia,” the renowned French phenomenologist Natalie Depraz reflects upon chronicity as a category that might be common to different forms of chronic diseases. In my comment I will first summarize Depraz's analysis, which will then allow me to elaborate on some open questions that her...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science October 23, 2020 Tsuneo Watanabe
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodological concept of phenomenological elucidation to promote the development of phenomenology as psychology. After offering a minimal review of the historical relationship between phenomenology and psychology, the first section gives a brief overview of the descriptive phenomenological approach developed by A. Giorgi and other psychologists....
Controversies October 15, 2020 Yaron M. Senderowicz
Abstract In this article, I single out the characteristics of a polemical type of argument that I dub “the harmonizing argument”. Contenders that use the harmonizing argument aim to persuade their audience that it is possible to harmonize two opposed positions. My case study is the enactivists’ attempt to naturalize Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness. I first present Husserl’s...
Asian Theater Journal October 13, 2020 Sondra Fraleigh 8 citations
Abstract:This reflective essay emanates from Zen Buddhism and phenomenology in theory and spirit, integrating the somatic theory of Nagatomo Shigenori with its basis in Dōgen Zen. It invites readers to explore an eco-somatic approach to butoh, a metamorphic and now global form of dance that evolved in Japan in the shadow of ecological and social crisis after World War II. In its descent toward...
arXiv Preprint Archive September 28, 2020 Adrian Kent preprint
There has been an upsurge of interest lately in developing Wigner's hypothesis that conscious observation causes collapse by exploring dynamical collapse models in which some purportedly quantifiable aspect(s) of consciousness resist superposition. Kremnizer-Ranchin, Chalmers-McQueen and Okon-Sebasti\'an have explored the idea that collapse may be associated with a numerical measure of...
Philosophical Studies September 18, 2020 Cecily M. K. Whiteley 39 citations
Abstract Aphantasia is a recently discovered disorder characterised by the total incapacity to generate visual forms of mental imagery. This paper proposes that aphantasia raises important theoretical concerns for the ongoing debate in the philosophy and science of consciousness over the nature of dreams. Recent studies of aphantasia and its neurobehavioral correlates reveal that the majority...
September 8, 2020 T. Sweeney
ABSTRACT In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically structured towards persuading God to reveal himself by the three Aristotelian means of persuasion: character, affect, and argument. Compassion is the phenomenological showing of God as the...
Frontiers in Psychology September 4, 2020 Jaakko Belt
There is a long-standing tradition of questioning the viability and scientificity of first-person methods. Husserlian reflective methodology, in particular, has been challenged on the basis of its perceived inability to meet the standards of objectivity and reliability, leading to what has been called "phenomenological skepticism" (Roy, 2007). In this article, I reassess this line of objection...
NECSUS September 4, 2020 Adriano D'Aloia
The constitution of a spatial level is simply one means of constituting an integrated world: my body is geared onto the world when my perception presents me with a spectacle as varied and as clearly articulated as possible, and when my motor intentions, as they unfold, receive the responses they expect from the world. This maximum sharpness of perception and action points clearly to a...