Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften eBooks
2009
Eli Franco
73 citations
The volume presents seventeen papers by different scholars that examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, questions concerning meditation and yogic perception. The contributions focus on various aspects, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation of body and mind, and health, and bind together the perspectives and approaches of disciplines such as South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan...
December 31, 2008
Johannes L. Brandl
2 citations
aturalism in philosophy of mind is commonly associated with a materialistic or physicalistic conception of reality. This association is often made because prominent physicalists, like David Armstrong and Willard Van Orman Quine, assume a naturalistic perspective in defending
Consciousness and Cognition
December 23, 2008
Bigna Lenggenhager, Michael Mouthon, Olaf Blanke
Visual, somatosensory, and perspectival cues normally provide congruent information about where the self is experienced. Separating those cues by virtual reality techniques, recent studies found that self-location was systematically biased to where a visual-tactile event was seen. Here we developed a novel, repeatable and implicit measure of self-location to compare and extend previous...
The MIT Press eBooks
December 12, 2008
Michael Tye
1 citation
This chapter’s discussion puts to task the views developed in previous chapters in an attempt to solve four famous philosophical puzzles: the Puzzle of Mary, the Explanatory Gap, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the Possibility of Zombies. How is it possible for Mary, in the famous thought experiment, to make a discovery when she leaves her black-and-white room? In what form does the...
The MIT Press eBooks
December 12, 2008
Michael Tye
139 citations
Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy. We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called "the...
Mental Health, Religion & Culture
December 8, 2008
David J. Wilde, Craig D. Murray
38 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) have become a topic of increasing interest to medical and psychological researchers over the last 35 years. During the course of this research agenda, several studies have focused on the phenomenology of the experience and its after-effects, mostly from a nomothetic stance. The aim of this study was to investigate the experience of having an NDE and what meaning...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
December 6, 2008
Olaf Blanke, Thomas Metzinger
We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that despite these achievements, central aspects have remained unexplored, namely, global aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Researchers investigated central representations of body parts and actions involving these, but neglected the global and unitary character of self-consciousness, the 'I' of experience...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 2008
Jordi Quoidbach, Michel Hansenne, Caroline Mottet
Recent research on autonoetic consciousness indicates that the ability to remember the past and the ability to project oneself into the future are closely related. The purpose of the present study was to confirm this proposition by examining whether the relationship observed between personality and episodic memory could be extended to episodic future thinking and, more generally, to investigate...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 2008
Kelly Bulkeley, Tracey L. Kahan
This study focuses on a set of dreams related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath, using content analysis and cognitive psychology to explore the interweaving of external public catastrophe and internal psychological processes. The study tests several recent claims in contemporary dream research, including the central image theory of Hartmann [Hartmann, E., & Basile,...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
December 2008
Kazuo Uebaba, Feng-Hao Xu, Hiroko Ogawa et al.
This study assessed the psychoneuroimmunologic changes achieved by Shirodhara, an Ayurvedic treatment, characterized by dripping oil on the forehead, in a randomized, controlled protocol involving a novel approach using a robotic system. In the first experiment for the determination of the most appropriate conditions of Shirodhara, 16 healthy females (33 +/- 9 years old) underwent a 30-minute...