Theoretical medicine and bioethics
February 1, 2011
Havi Carel
Phenomenology is a useful methodology for describing and ordering experience. As such, phenomenology can be specifically applied to the first person experience of illness in order to illuminate this experience and enable health care providers to enhance their understanding of it. However, this approach has been underutilized in the philosophy of medicine as well as in medical training and...
IGI Global eBooks
January 18, 2011
Roberto Poli
1 citation
The main thesis defended by this paper is the thesis of the autonomy – i.e., non-reducibility -- of the phenomenic level of analysis of the psyche. The thesis will be defended by exploiting four main ideas: (1) the theory of levels of reality, (2) the distinction between act and object of presentation, (3) the structure of internal time, and (4) the distinction between egological and non...
Topics in stroke rehabilitation
2011
Bruce Greenfield
Kaufman's ground-breaking work in the 1980s introduced the phenomenology of disability. In my commentary, I describe phenomenology as a philosophy of understanding the world around us and as a methodology for understanding the lived experiences of patients with life-changing disabilities. Like Kaufman, my focus for the use of phenomenology in health care is to capture the existential and...
2011
D. Moran
Introduction The concept of habit enfolds an enormous richness and diversity of meanings. According to Husserl, habit, along with association, memory, and so on, belongs to the very essence of the psychic.1 Husserl even speaks of an overall genetic “phenomenology of habitualities”.2 In this paper, as an initial attempt to explicate the complexity of phenomenological treatments of habit, I want...
Dance Research Journal
2011
Edward C. Warburton
84 citations
One of my favorite childhood memories is from my first dance class. I ran into the studio and started jumping, jumping, jumping literally for joy when I noticed suddenly that I was not alone. There were other children in class, and they were all jumping too. We jumped together, spontaneously in sync, oblivious to what must have been looks of parental incredulity peeking through the door. The...
Journal of Aesthetic Education
2011
Eric Mullis
1 citation
Reviewed by: Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Eric C. Mullis Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, by Richard Shusterman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 239 pp., $20.00 paperback. One aspect of Richard Shusterman’s work is indicative of a broad movement to develop a robust philosophy of embodiment. Thinkers from diverse...
Frontiers in Psychology
2011
Jeff Yoshimi
23 citations
I show how the dynamics of consciousness can be formally derived from the "open dynamics" of neural activity, and develop a mathematical framework for neuro-phenomenological investigation. I describe the space of possible brain states, the space of possible conscious states, and a "supervenience function" linking them. I show how this framework can be used to associate phenomenological...
Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment
2011
Kathleen Haney
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s philosophy of life has been unfolding in a series of works, beginning with the her three volume work, Logos and Life. This article examines her latest work on the Sacred Quest and show how it develops out of vital life into sentient life into the Human Condition. Due to the organic nature of Tymieniecka’s work, the early stages along life’s way are described so that...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
December 14, 2010
Susanna Schellenberg
71 citations
I develop a view of the common factor between subjectively indistinguishable perceptions and hallucinations that avoids analyzing experiences as involving awareness relations to abstract entities, sense‐data, or any other peculiar entities. The main thesis is that hallucinating subjects employ concepts (or analogous nonconceptual structures), namely the very same concepts that in a subjectively...
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
December 1, 2010
Eric L Garland, Matthew O Howard
Although volatile substance inhalation is prevalent in many contexts and presents a serious threat to public health, this pernicious form of substance misuse remains poorly understood. The question of why people seek and misuse inhalants may be addressed by examining phenomenological accounts of inhalant intoxication, yet few investigations of inhalant intoxication experiences are reported in...