The Journal of Philosophy
June 27, 1968
James M. Edie, Paul Ricoeur, Edward G. Ballard et al.
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Paul Ricoeur was one of the foremost interpreters and translators of Edmund Husserl's philosophy. These nine essays present Ricoeur's interpretation of the most important of Husserl's writings, with emphasis on his philosophy of consciousness rather than his work in logic. In Ricoeur's philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism came of age and these essays provide an introduction to the...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
December 1, 2026
Zinet Ritschel, Brady Wagoner
Abstract This paper develops a phenomenological account of the therapeutic significance of psychedelic-induced mystical experience, drawing on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The central argument holds that the enduring therapeutic benefits of psychedelics emerge through a radical transformation in the structure of lived experience. Two prominent objections to the therapeutic value of...
Graham Nicholls, Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Tressoldi
The aim of this paper is to compare the exteroception and general phenomenology of naturally arising, or spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs), sometimes also referred to as extra-corporeal experiences (ECEs) with those that have been induced via the use of hypnotic induction in order to compare their phenomenology. The similarities and differences emerged from this comparison offer a very...
Ariel Swyer, Albert R. Powers
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) have traditionally been thought to be outside the influence of conscious control. However, recent work with voice-hearers makes clear that both treatment-seeking and non-treatment seeking voice-hearers may exert varying degrees of control over their voices. Evidence suggests that this ability may be a key factor in determining health status, but little...
Renxiang Liu
This paper is motivated by what I call the “enigma of time”, the paradox that, on the one hand, the givenness of a temporal entity takes time, i.e., comes in installments and is never complete, while, on the other hand, at each moment of manifestation the entity is grasped as a unity, i.e., “pretends” to be complete. A methodological assumption underlying my investigation is that the paradox...
Vittorio Gallese
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Digital media have been repeatedly described as disembodying, virtualizing, or abstracting human experience. This article rejects that premise. It argues that the digital does not weaken embodiment but reorganizes it at a fundamental level. Drawing on embodied simulation and phenomenology, I propose a framework of radical aesthetics in which aisthesis—embodied, affective sense-making—is the...
Mark Robert Adley, Stephanie Scott, Amy O'Donnell
This methodological paper presents a participatory adaptation of descriptive phenomenology, co-produced with public contributors. Traditionally, descriptive phenomenological analysis is performed by a sole trained analyst responsible for conducting bracketing, reduction, and essence-seeking. In contrast, we explore how these processes can be shared within collaborative partnerships. Through...
Robert Prentner
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In this contribution, we emphasize the relevance of mathematical approaches to the first-person perspective. We briefly discuss why this is necessary and why mathematics plays a special role when it comes to integrating scientific (empirical) and philosophical (theoretical) projects. We also sketch some potential ways that mathematics could be used in phenomenology, based on a selection of four...
Jagat Sarkar
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This paper presents the Ψ-Consciousness Fabric (C-Fabric) as a unified field framework that bridges quantum gravity, cosmology, and phenomenology. Central to the model is the proposal that reality is underpinned by a universal Ψ-field, with matter emerging as solitonic condensations, spacetime curvature arising from Ψ-density gradients, and consciousness manifesting through an actualisation...
Christoph Kohlhepp
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This paper explores the phenomenology of consciousness and self awareness in the context the work of the mathematician Douglas Hofstadter and so called Strange Loops and Gödels Incompleteness Theorem. We apply these concepts to modern Large Language Models and seek to establish if Large Language Models can be regarded as self-aware and can be taught to self-improve.