History of the Human Sciences
2010
Benjamin Carter
The English Neoplatonic philosopher Ralph Cudworth introduced the term "consciousness" into the English philosophical lexicon. Cudworth uses the term to define the form and structure of cognitive acts, including acts of freewill. In this article I highlight the important role of theological disputes over the place and extent of human freewill within an overarching system of providence....
International review of neurobiology
2010
Patrick Mcnamara, Patricia Johnson, Deirdre McLaren et al.
We review the literature on the neurobiology of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep states and associated dreams. REM is associated with enhanced activation of limbic and amygdalar networks and decreased activation in dorsal prefrontal regions while stage II NREM is associated with greater cortical activation than REM. Not surprisingly, these disparate brain...
The Humanistic Psychologist
2010
Will W. Adams
13 citations
The dominant tradition in Western culture has constructed an idiosyncratic view of nature and consciousness, one that relationally impoverishes both humankind and the rest of the natural world. Psyche, consciousness, and mind are typically thought to exist exclusively in humans (or just our brains); nature is deemed merely an object, resource, or lower life-form. Guided by hermeneutic...
2010
D. Nikolić
This work was supported by a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; number NI 708/2-1), the Hertie Foundation, Max-Planck Geselschaft, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Henri Matisse, a famous French artist said the following about the way he worked: “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” Little has he known that, having a human brain, he could...
2010
Tobias Janz
Seit ihren Anfangen im fruhen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert war mit der Phanomenologie das Versprechen eines unmittelbaren Zugangs zu den Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung und des Erlebens verbunden. Obwohl dies die Phanomenologie fur die Asthetik im Allgemeinen und besonders fur bestimmte musiktheoretische Fragestellungen attraktiv machte, konnte sich bislang kein Ansatz zu einer Phanomenologie der Musik...
Psychopathology
2010
Thomas Fuchs
The establishment of criteriological diagnostic systems since the 1980s has increased the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis. On the other hand, the limits of this approach for clinicians and researchers are becoming increasingly apparent. In particular, the assessment of subjective experience is nearly excluded on the theoretical level and undervalued on the pragmatic level, with detrimental...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
2010
John H. Hick
Most neurophysiologists work on some highly specialised area of brain research and are not particularly interested in the philosophical issue, as they see it, of the relationship between brain and consciousness. For it does not make any practical difference to them whether consciousness is identical with, or caused by, or only correlated with brain activity. But those who do concern themselves...
European Psychiatry
2010
Giovanni Stanghellini, B. Fulford
Schziophrenia is widely considered the most “philosophical” of all mental disorders. One main reason is that many persons with schizophrenia undergo experiences akin to what some philosophers want to attain by the suspension of common-sense attitude and beliefs. This phenomenon is quintessential to the formation of schizophrenic delusions. The typical metaphysical tinge to the contents of...
European Psychiatry
2010
P. Matthews, Sal Anderson, Cinema And Psychosis
1 citation
According to the Jasperian model, phenomenology ‘gives a concrete description of the psychic states which patients actually experience and presents them for observation’ (Jaspers, General Psychopathology, 1963, 44). Narrative cinema is arguably no less phenomenological in that it employs a phalanx of aesthetic strategies (visual design, framing, editing, camera angle, point of view) to...
2010
Israel Koren
In this chapter, author wishes to refute dominant view among Buber scholars, that what differentiates Buber's book Daniel from I and Thou or, more broadly, Buber's earlier thought and his dialogical thought, is his approach to mysticism. The discussion of Buber's manner of confronting problem of multiplicity and phenomenological examination of mystical descriptions in his writing indicated that...