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The Anatomy of Experience December 12, 2025 Jody Azzouni
Abstract Careful introspection reveals that both categorical perception and pure noncategorical thisness are relatively “empty.” Categorical perception is the experience of generality, that something is an instance. But being an instance comes to very little because our experience of the scope of categories, the range of things that can be categorized as dog or as pink, for example, is so...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences December 10, 2025 Daniel Villiger
Abstract Mystical experiences are among the most extraordinary and meaningful experiences one can have. While such experiences have been studied for more than a century, it is still an open question how the brain can produce them. The present paper provides a possible answer by examining mystical experience from the lens of the REBUS hypothesis—a theory that explains the neurocognitive...
Philosophia December 5, 2025 Ori Beck
Abstract Neil Mehta puts forward a pluralist theory of conscious perception, on which to consciously perceive is to deploy not just one, but two distinct kinds of sensory awareness in concert. Here I present three reservations regarding one of these kinds awareness - deep awareness. First, Mehta introduces deep awareness as a relation whose deployment explains the putative fact that conscious...
Zygon December 3, 2025
We assess St. Paul's account of kenōsis in Philippians 2:5–8 from a neurophenomenological horizon. We argue that kenōsis is not primarily a unique event but belongs to a class of experiences that could be called kenotic and are, at least in principle, to some degree accessible to all human beings. These experiences can be well analyzed, making use of both a phenomenological approach and the...
Zygon December 3, 2025 John A. Teske 1 citation
The cognitive sciences may be understood to contribute to religion‐and‐science as a metadisciplinary discussion in ways that can be organized according to the three persons of narrative, encoding the themes of consciousness, relationality, and healing. First‐person accounts are likely to be important to the understanding of consciousness, the “hard problem” of subjective experience, and...
European Journal of Philosophy December 1, 2025 James Deery
Abstract The imagination seems to enjoy a conceptually unstable double‐life within Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception . Oscillating between a Kantian use of the term, as a ‘necessary ingredient of perception itself’ and a Sartrean depiction of what appears when say, viewing a painting or visualising an absent friend, as a nothingness that is of an entirely different ‘flesh’ to that of...
Revue roumaine de philosophie December 1, 2025 Université de Rouen Normandie, Bogdan Rusu
The thesis of this paper is that, in his first metaphysical work, Whitehead took Berkeley as his model. He stopped perceiving him as a subjective idealist and he leaned to consider him an objective/absolute idealist. He became appreciative of some positive contributions of the Irish philosopher. While continuing to appreciate Berkeley’s critique of the seventeenth century scheme of ideas,...
William Carlos Williams Review December 1, 2025 Deven Philbrick
Abstract This article seeks to mobilize Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of perception—more specifically, his contention that imbrication in a knowledge relationship with the perceived object precedes registration of the percept in consciousness—toward reconceiving some stale debates in Williams studies, namely: what is meant by the famous dictum, “No ideas but in things.” For Williams, this...
Phenomenology & Practice November 30, 2025 Ingeborg van den Bold, Marjolein De Boer, Jenny Slatman
Body awareness is considered to be an important element of mindfulness-based interventions. Although studies have been done on the effects of enhanced body awareness on health and well-being, none of these studies focused on the meaning of the body and body awareness in the teaching and learning process of enhancing one’s body awareness. In this paper, we provide a phenomenology of the body in...
Journal of Philosophical Investigations November 30, 2025 Saeid Karimi, Morteza Tabatabaie
Consciousness is one of the most fundamental yet complex issues in the philosophy of mind. Philosophers such as David Chalmers, by proposing the “hard problem of consciousness,” have distinguished between phenomenal consciousness and psychological consciousness. Ned Block has further refined this distinction by formulating it in terms of phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness. On the...
PsyArXiv November 28, 2025 Rafael Reis preprint
The debate over free will has traditionally been framed as a choice between libertarian indeterminism and hard determinism, with compatibilism attempting to reconcile freedom with deterministic causation. However, this framing overlooks a crucial insight from computational theory: that determinism does not entail predictability. We propose that the phenomenological experience of free will — the...
Cambridge University Press eBooks November 27, 2025 Frode Kjosavik
The human standpoint and what sets it apart from the standpoint of non-rational animals is discussed. Some distinctions are also drawn between “lower” and “higher" representations of objects in terms of how much they involve of the cognitive apparatus. Additionally, it is discussed briefly how the human standpoint contrasts with the God’s eye viewpoint of traditional metaphysics. This brings us...
Journal of Praxis in Higher Education November 26, 2025 Whitney Strohmayr, David T Jones
Educating graduate students about praxis represents a challenge and an opportunity. This essay explores an experience of learning praxis along with Transformative Phenomenology, the combination of which indicates a promising means for scaffolding graduate students to deeper self-reflection and changed thinking. The emergence of changed thinking is reasoned as a shift from subconscious thought...
Analiza i Egzystencja November 25, 2025 Paweł Gwiaździński, Magdalena Reuter
The aim of this article is to describe the method of analysis of the microphenomenological interview and to compare this method to other similar methods. Microphenomenological method was proposed by the French phenomenologist Claire Petitmengin. The microphenomenological interview is a qualitative, second-person method of studying experience that responds to problems resulting from the study of...
Analiza i Egzystencja November 25, 2025 Paweł Gwiaździński, Magdalena Reuter
The aim of this article is to present the microphenomenological interview method as a second-person method in the study of experience. Researchers in the field of cognitive science are beginning to realize that third-person methods of studying experience have their limitations, namely that the researcher does not know what is happening at the level of the subjective consciousness of the person...
Annals of General Psychiatry November 25, 2025 Luisa de Risio, Alessio Mosca, Arianna Pasino et al.
Disturbances of the minimal self, or anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), are increasingly regarded as a core feature of primary psychotic disorders (PPDs). However, it remains unclear whether similar self-disorders are present in substance-induced psychosis (SIP), a condition that often mimics PPDs in its early stages. The study aims to compare ASEs between PPD and SIP using the EASE interview,...
Journal of Neuroscience November 24, 2025 Mona Irrmischer, Marco Aqil, Lisa Luan et al.
Psychedelics profoundly alter subjective experience and brain dynamics. Brain oscillations express signatures of near-critical dynamics, relevant for healthy function. Alterations in the proximity to criticality have been suggested to underlie the experiential and neurological effects of psychedelics. Here, we investigate the effects of a psychedelic substance (DMT) on the criticality of brain...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research November 21, 2025 Peter Fisher Epstein, Umrao Sethi
ABSTRACT Empirical arguments in the philosophy of perception have become increasingly influential. In this paper, we evaluate the prospects for one such argument—the Argument from Structure —in light of the a priori constraint that we must give a unified account of visual experience. We argue that, correctly understood, the kinds of empirical findings marshalled in support of an internalist...
Translational Psychiatry November 21, 2025 Andrea Francesco Carluccio, Georg Northoff
Auditory verbal hallucinations [AVH] are one of the most common psychopathological symptoms in psychosis and schizophrenia [SZ]. While various studies demonstrate the neuronal features of AVH in specific regions and networks including changes in structural and functional connectivity, the relation of their neuronal topography to the organization or structure of the subjects' experience, i.e....
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия November 20, 2025 Ivan Deviatko
This article explores the productive intersection between analytic theology and analytic philosophy of mind through the lens of Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland’s 2024 monograph The Substance of Consciousness. Its aim is to show that the soul hypothesis is anything but an anachronism; rather, it opens research avenues capable of revitalising theories of consciousness while enriching...