Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca
July 1, 2011
A. Zhok
15 citations
Phenomenology has been defined by Husserl as "theory of the essences of pure phenomena," yet the ontological status of essences in Husserlian phenomenology is far from a settled issue.The late Husserlian emphasis on genetic constitution and the historicity of the lifeworld is not immediately reconcilable with the 'unchangeable' nature that is prima facie attributed to essences.However, the...
Medical History
July 1, 2011
Andreas Sommer
16 citations
The English music theorist and philosophical writer Edmund Gurney was the first ‘fulltime’ psychical researcher in history. While he was primarily concerned with empirical evidence for telepathy, Gurney significantly contributed to the late nineteenth-century literature on hallucinations in the sane, and the psychology of hypnotism and dissociation. He conducted the first large-scale survey of...
Mind
July 1, 2011
Akkelies van Nes
William Fish's book defends a naive realist view of veridical visual experience, a disjunctivist account of hallucination, and a mixed view of illusion, combining elements of his accounts of veridical experience and hallucination. Its core thesis is that the phenomenal character of any visual experience — in so far as it has one — consists in being acquainted with mind-independent facts. Fish's...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
July 1, 2011
Anette Kjellgren, Christophe Soussan
52 citations
The psychoactive substance 4-HO-MET (4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine) with psychedelic qualities is one of many legal so-called Internet drugs. The aim of this qualitative study was to establish an understanding of what characterizes its recreational use. Very little is known about the effects of this substance. Twenty-five anonymous Swedish experience reports (from persons aged 18-30...
Cortex
June 26, 2011
Michael J. Banissy, Josephine Cassell, Sian Fitzpatrick et al.
42 citations
Synaesthesia is a condition in which one property of a stimulus induces a conscious experience of an additional attribute. For example, in grapheme-colour synaesthesia, a visually presented grapheme results in synaesthetic experiences of colour. These experiences occur in approximately 4% of the population (Simner et al., 2006) and the authenticity of the condition is well established (Cohen...
Sententiae
June 16, 2011
Gennadii Khrystokin
The article analyses a doctrine of the knowledge of God by an orthodox theologian John Manuzakis. He develops the first variant of post-modernist orthodox phenomenolo-gy of mystical experience as mystical senses. Within his doctrine J. Manuzakis develops phenomenology of sensory vision of God basing on the ideas of Jean-Luc Marion. Christ of the Gospel acts as a revelation of God which is not...
Neuroimage
June 15, 2011
M Pyka, M Burgmer, T Lenzen et al.
Hypnotic paralysis has been used since the times of Charcot to study altered states of consciousness; however, the underlying neurobiological correlates are poorly understood. We investigated human brain function during hypnotic paralysis using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), focussing on two core regions of the default mode network and the representation of the...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 15, 2011
Georges Dicker
This chapter surveys, formulates, and evaluates Berkeley's main arguments for the foundational doctrine of his philosophy, namely that we perceive only our own ideas or, as he puts it, that sensible qualities are only ideas or sensations in the mind: the pleasure-pain argument, two subtly different versions of the argument from perceptual relativity (one of which invokes, in effect, the...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
June 9, 2011
Nigel C. Jones, Maya Reddy, Paul M Anderson et al.
A single non-anaesthetic dose of ketamine, a non-competitive NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist with hallucinogenic properties, induces cognitive impairment and psychosis, and aggravates schizophrenia symptoms in patients. In conscious rats an equivalent dose of ketamine induces key features of animal models of acute psychosis, including hyperlocomotor activity, deficits in prepulse inhibition...
Phenomenology & Practice
June 4, 2011
Will Johncock
4 citations
What is the relation of the human to the world and the things in it? Do the various forms of human interrogation of the world discover things, and with them, a world? That is, can we reduce Being to a separation of knower from what can be known, or of observer from what can be observed? This article interrogates the question of the human-world relation via an inter-disciplinary analysis. The...