Research Square
September 25, 2026
Lisa Guenther
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Abstract Husserl’s phenomenology of the lifeworld affirms the importance of engaging critically with the historical past to revitalize and transform its meaning. But his account of the role that ‘normality’ plays in world-constitution raises questions about the usefulness of Husserl’s generative phenomenology for a social critique of normalizing power. Through a reading of key passages in the...
The Linacre quarterly
September 24, 2026
Donald Rick Froyd
Contemporary clinical practice increasingly recognizes the centrality of attention, presence, and affect regulation in healing trauma and restoring psychological integration. Early Christian ascetical writers-particularly Hesychios, Evagrius, and Cassian-developed a sophisticated spiritual anthropology centered on watchfulness (nepsis) and attentive presence (prosoche), practices aimed at...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
September 24, 2026
Brett D. Wilkinson, Andrew Brown
This article examines foundational tenets of logotherapy and proposes an embodiment-focused reinterpretation of Frankl’s dimensional ontology. We begin by contrasting negative orientations to suffering via the existential vacuum with positive orientations to transformation grounded in three expressions of the noetic: discovery of meaning, self-detachment, and self-transcendence. Next, we...
Natural Resources for Human Health
September 22, 2026
A. S. Jothi
Cormac McCarthy’s companion novels, The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022), represent a profound late-career turn from externalized physical violence to interiorized psychological, existential, and phenomenological trauma. Through a qualitative, interdisciplinary close reading informed by Sartre and Camus’s existentialism, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra’s trauma theory, and Maurice...
Hypatia
September 21, 2026
River J. Heisler
Abstract Embodiment is a particularly difficult dimension of experience to capture for transgender individuals, particularly individuals who identify as nonbinary. Accounts of embodiment in both philosophy and psychology often fail to capture the layers of perplexity which nonbinary individuals experience when attempting to understand the relationship between the lived body and social...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 21, 2026
Steven Tyler
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Before asking why experience occurs for an experiencer, one must first ask what that experiencer is and why it has been exempted from the explanandum. The canonical hard-problem formulation places the experiencer in a primitive explanatory position; this paper subjects that placement to a biological and causal-temporal audit. Rather than treating the familiar narrator-level “I” as an antecedent...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
September 19, 2026
Mark Edward Chard
Western eschatology often depicts the afterlife as either static contemplation or undifferentiated union with the Divine, leaving the social mechanics of disembodied interaction undertheorized. Using an autoethnographic case study anchored in a lifelong twin bond, this paper investigates post-mortem sociality through a strictly Christocentric lens. Drawing on experiential data of communication...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
September 17, 2026
Thomas Metzinger
Biological naturalism may collapse into eliminative materialism, and the ethics of synthetic phenomenology will remain.
September 13, 2026
Qi Zhang
Subjectivity and awareness are widely regarded as core properties of consciousness, and explaining their nature remains a major challenge in consciousness research. While many existing theories provide predominantly qualitative accounts, the development of quantitative modeling may bridge the explanatory gap. This study expands the Twin Cognitive Cycle (TCC) model by focusing on quantifying the...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
September 12, 2026
Cristóbal Pacheco, Pablo Fossa
This theoretical-conceptual essay reconsiders epoché in qualitative phenomenological research and its relation to experiential emergence. Rather than a one-time technique of bracketing, epoché is conceptualized as a sustained discipline of epistemic suspension, attentional reorientation, and phenomenological restraint. On this basis, protoexistence is reformulated as a heuristic for incomplete...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 11, 2026
Roberto Mucciarini
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This essay develops a methodological proposal complementary to the research programme outlined in CEFA – Proposta di indagine. Taking the hard problem of consciousness as its starting point, it distinguishes subjective experience, the data through which we study it, and hypotheses concerning its origin. An examination of selected neuroscientific studies clarifies why the limitations of...
University of Warwick
September 10, 2026
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Qeios
September 10, 2026
Wiesław L Galus
This article addresses David Chalmers's hard problem of consciousness by asking why information processing is accompanied by a subjective 'what it is like'. Its point of departure is the distinction between intelligence and phenomenal consciousness: the achievements of contemporary artificial intelligence show that reasoning, planning, language, and the accurate description of emotions do not...
Religions
September 10, 2026
Gwendolyn Araya Gómez
(1) Background: This article situates Edith Stein within the 20th-century debate on the nature of mystical experience, framing it as a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between divine initiative and human freedom, and aims to reassess dominant developmental interpretations of mysticism. It argues that, alongside theological models such as that of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange,...
Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal
September 10, 2026
Mykhaylo Pustovoyt, Ivan Romash, Yuliia Medynska et al.
To read the full-text Open Access article and download the PDFs, please visit our Issue portal at Paradigm (Walter de Gruyter): https://reference-global.com/article/10.56508/mhgcj.v9i1.368 Introduction: Diagnostic differentiation between dissociative, reactive, and psychotic disorders remains conceptually and clinically challenging due to overlapping phenomenology and insufficiently specified...
PsyArXiv Preprints
September 8, 2026
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This study aims to obtain detailed information about the afterlife and how discarnate entities live there, using 37 different sources for the first time. These sources comprise seven selected participants claiming to be able to interview entities living in the afterlife, six participants claiming a direct experience of the afterlife, six experts on this topic, and books by 17 different authors...
PsyArXiv Preprints
September 7, 2026
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Research has typically examined how self-location in the head or heart is associated with traits and behavior, yet its link to relationality—specifically the felt sense of connection—remains underexplored. This study investigated how dispositional self-location predicts the embodied experience of being relationally linked to others and the world. We initially developed the Dispositional...
Qualitative Health Research
September 4, 2026
Jordan Sibéoni
Phenomenologically inspired qualitative methods in health research have spent decades seeking legitimacy within the evidence hierarchy by presenting themselves as rigorously inductive. This pursuit of legitimacy, we argue, has come at an epistemological cost: it obscures what these approaches actually do when they work at their best and forecloses their most radical potential. Drawing on...
Angelaki
September 3, 2026
Andrew Haas
Husserl’s phenomenology of internal time-consciousness is supposed to give an account of the possibility of experience and its objects. But if its determinations are merely temporal, it cannot explain how different ways of experiencing are possible at one and the same time; for example, how we can both be experiencing and have experienced in the present. For this, we need aspect (which is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 3, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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This article presents a narrative review of Phenomenology and the First-Person Point of View in the context of Philosophy. The literature on this topic has expanded substantially over recent decades, yet it remains fragmented across subfields, methods, and national research traditions. Drawing on an interpretive synthesis of representative contributions, the review reconstructs the historical...