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PARADIGMI April 1, 2010 Michele Di Francesco
La riflessione contemporanea sulla coscienza si č concentrata sul problema dei qualia, assumendone il carattere fondamentale e sottolineandone la natura di hard problem. Senza voler sottovalutare la rilevanza di questo problema per temi quali la tenuta del fisicalismo o la natura del nesso psicofisico, č sorprendente come uno spazio molto minore sia stato dedicato a un fenomeno altrettanto...
Philosophical Psychology April 1, 2010 Erik C. Banks 43 citations
Neutral monism is a position in metaphysics defended by Mach, James, and Russell in the early twentieth century. It holds that minds and physical objects are essentially two different orderings of the same underlying neutral elements of nature. This paper sets out some of the central concepts, theses and the historical background of ideas that inform this doctrine of elements. The discussion...
International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie April 1, 2010 Nima Ghorbani, Christopher J L Cunningham, P J Watson
Previous research has established that awareness of self-experience is a stress resistance resource. The present study conducted an analysis of measures that record different aspects of self-awareness (private self-consciousness, mindfulness, and integrative self-knowledge) to explain this stress-resistance effect in a sample of Iranian university students (N = 186). These students responded to...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis April 2010 Ronald J Pekala, V K Kumar, Ronald Maurer et al.
This study sought to determine if self-reported hypnotic depth (srHD) could be predicted from the variables of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory - Hypnotic Assessment Procedure (PCI-HAP) (Pekala, 1995a, 1995b; Pekala & Kumar, 2007; Pekala et al., 2010), assessing several of the processes theorized by researchers to be associated with hypnotism: trance (altered state effects),...
Neurocase April 2010 Giuseppe Iaria, Christopher J Fox, Michael Scheel et al.
In this study, we report the case of a patient experiencing hallucinations of faces that could be reliably precipitated by looking at trees. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), we found that face hallucinations were associated with increased and decreased neural activity in a number of cortical regions. Within the same fusiform face area, however, we found significant decreased...
Philosophy East and West April 1, 2010 Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Reviewed by: Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation Stuart Ray Sarbacker Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation. Edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. Volume 12 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy, Series Editor Karl Potter. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2008. Pp. 784. Yoga: India's Philosophy of Meditation is the most recent volume in the highly acclaimed...
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling March 30, 2010 Byoung‐Kyong Min 103 citations
[BACKGROUND]: It is reasonable to consider the thalamus a primary candidate for the location of consciousness, given that the thalamus has been referred to as the gateway of nearly all sensory inputs to the corresponding cortical areas. Interestingly, in an early stage of brain development, communicative innervations between the dorsal thalamus and telencephalon must pass through the ventral...
The Waning of Materialism March 25, 2010 Uwe Meixner
AbstractThis chapter offers a version of Cartesian dualism that draws on the resources of a Husserlian account of intentionality. For example, it argues that ‘I can locate myself at the point in space from which I am looking at the world (my ‘center of perspective’)’. It relies on empirical phenomenology to show that this location that does not correspond to my body or any part of it. Phantom...
The Waning of Materialism March 25, 2010 Bernard W. Kobes
AbstractDualist themes in Burge's philosophy of mind are gathered and articulated. Burge's anti-individualism yields an argument against token-identity theory; his reflections on mental causation have a dualist flavor; and he doubts that the relation of mental events to neural events is one of composition or constitution. This chapter argues that compositional materialism about representational...
The Waning of Materialism March 25, 2010 Laurence BonJour
AbstractThis chapter argues that there are no compelling arguments in favor of, and very powerful, seemingly unanswerable objections to, materialism in the philosophy of mind. The arguments for materialism that appeal to (a) the ‘principle’ of causal closure and (b) the doctrine of naturalism are argued to rest entirely on undefended assumptions. The central objection that materialist views...