Journal of Near-Death Studies
1997
James E. Whinnery
60 citations
Although loss and recovery of consciousness are integral parts of the near-death experience (NDE), the role of altered states of conscious ness in the NDE has not been thoroughly investigated. Sixteen years of ob servations, including nearly 1000 acceleration (+Gz)-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) episodes, have revealed a pattern of psychophysiologic symptoms that collectively constitute...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 1996
Morris Moscovitch
Abstract: Why is consciousness associated with recovery of memories that are initially dependent on the hippocampal system? A hypothesis is proposed that the medial temporal lobe/hippocampal complex (MTL/H) receives as its input only information that is consciously apprehended. By a process termed “cohesion,” the MTL/H binds into a memory trace those neural elements that mediated the conscious...
Shofar
December 1, 1996
Mark Verman
2 citations
Kabbalah Refracted: Review Essay KABBALAH REFRACTED Review Essay by MarkVerman Depanment of Religion Carleton College 123 Through a SpeculumThat Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, by ElliotWolfson. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1994. 452 pp. Elliot Wolfson is arguably the country's premier scholar of Jewish mysticism. Through a Speculum That Shines (hencefonh...
November 21, 1996
Michael Della Rocca
Abstract This first extensive study of Spinoza’s philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher’s thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind’s relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza’s positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of...
AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies
November 1, 1996
Yoram Bilu
24 citations
For many years scholars of Judaism were reluctant to employ the analytic tools distilled in anthropology for studying Jewish culture. One reason for this reluctance was that the classical ethnographic field, consisting of a small-scale tribal society with no written tradition, did not appear pertinent to the study of the text-informed “great tradition“ of Judaism. In addition, the notion of...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
October 29, 1996
C Frith
Many patients with schizophrenia report hallucinations in which they hear voices talking to them or about them. Behavioural and physiological studies show that this experience is associated with processes occurring in auditory language systems associated with both the production and the reception of speech. I propose that hallucinations are experienced because patients have difficulty in...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 24, 1996
Robert Kirk
This chapter seeks to justify the contention that the notion of raw feeling is sound. It also makes clear what the intelligibility gap is. Another aim — the main one — is to develop solutions to the real problems, thereby showing how the intelligibility gap can be closed. The third aim is to make clear that the proposed solutions are solutions — to show that they require no leaps of faith....
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 10, 1996
Austen Clark
One would like a general theory of sensory modalities, a theory that could be applied to any sensory modality, including ones that humans do not share. It could be applied not only to the familiar human sensory modalities, but also to non-human ones such as electro-reception and echo location. In Nagel's words, one would like an objective characterization of the subjective character of a...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
October 1, 1996
Alison Ruth Yung, Patrick D. Mcgorry
505 citations
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe in detail, using a retrospective approach, the prodromal symptoms in first-episode psychosis patients. This initial prodrome, the period of disturbance preceding a first psychotic episode, is potentially important for early intervention, identification of biological markers, and understanding the process of becoming psychotic. METHOD: A consecutive series...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
September 13, 1996
Sydney Shoemaker
3 citations
A distinctive feature of recent philosophy of mind has been the repudiation of “Cartesianism.” With one part of this repudiation, namely the rejection of mind-body dualism, I am in complete agreement. But my concern in the present essay is with a different part of it, namely the rejection of the Cartesian conception of the minds epistemic access to itself – as a first approximation, the view...