Contemporary models of well-being remain incomplete because they overlook the existential dimension. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, anthropology, sociology and public health, this article proposes existential health as a fourth domain of human flourishing. It examines how individuals and societies relate to mortality, groundlessness, isolation, meaning, belonging and ecological...
In the article, we explore, from the perspective of genetic phenomenology, the embodied image consciousness in terms of two distinct cases, i.e.: surrealism as social and/or artistic movement as well as radiology as cognitive and/or social praxis. Both scientifically and socially, consciousness is still regarded as coextensive with language, which has its own logic and its own set of relations,...
every age, it has been said, is an ‘age of transition’. So too, it might be said, is every age, in the history of the philosophy of mind at least, an age of revolt. Indeed this is almost a logical necessity. One who enters the pages of this history does so only by raising some banner of revolt; and the more faithful his disciples the sooner they are forgotten. It is upon the unfaithful disciple...
Tom Stoppard’s 2015 play The Hard Problem centres on an argument about the eponymous philosophical concept related to the study of consciousness, a phrase coined by the Australian analytic philosopher David Chalmers. The play’s investment in philosophy of mind results in heavily discursive dialogue, which many critics of the play felt rendered the script more like a series of arguments than a...
A personal essay collection and structured knowledge graph mapping the three major Buddhist Abhidharma traditions (Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, Yogācāra) onto contemporary frameworks in computational phenomenology — predictive processing, active inference, Global Workspace Theory, Parallel Distributed Processing, and related approaches. Comprises sixteen essays (eight themes × English + Japanese),...
In a recent taxonomy of different philosophies of mind, Robert Lawrence Kuhn classified Rudolf Steiner's view as a mind-body dualism. We argue that this classification is incorrect. Rather, Steiner's view is trinitarian and represents a unification of monism and dualism. Hence, the trinitarian conception of the human being in Steiner not only challenges Kuhn's taxonomic placement of Steiner's...
Severe mental illness is frequently approached through nosological criteria focused on symptom severity, neglecting the complexity of lived experience. Phenomenology understands psychopathology not as an isolated biological dysfunction, but as a radical alteration in the structure of being-in-the-world. Grounded in Merleau-Ponty's ontology and Max van Manen's phenomenology of practice, this...
This review integrates anthropological and neuroscientific perspectives to elucidate music-induced trance processes and their relevance to non-ordinary states of consciousness (NSCs). The objectives are to deepen the understanding of trance phenomena, delineate links across diverse trance expressions, and inform future neuroscientific research. Drawing on anthropological insights, we examine...
Jurnal FuadunaJune 30, 2026Abdurrahman Abdurrahman, Mohammad Subhi, Dhea Dayuranggi Meghatruh
This article examines the problem of subjectivity in David Chalmers’ formulation of the hard problem of consciousness, particularly the difficulty of explaining subjective experience and qualia within a predominantly third-person scientific framework. The study argues that the exclusion or marginalization of the experiencing subject generates both a methodological limitation in investigating...
Introduction. Apparently, the most important property of consciousness is its blurring in reflections when trying to build its theory. Therefore, it is so difficult to focus the research request on the nature of the mind and consciousness, which, however, impresses with the compactness of expression and the possibilities of meanings concentration. So, in the language of mathematics, the...