Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
July 6, 2026
Jacob Berger, Lori M. Curtindale
A new method for determining whether nonverbal organisms such as human infants have consciousness has recently emerged. According to this so-called marker methodology, we do not use theories of consciousness to assess whether creatures are conscious by meeting the conditions set out by those theories. Rather, we identify a range of markers that putatively correlate with consciousness to make...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 3, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
preprint
Abstract: The apparent conflict between consciousness science and consciousness-first metaphysics is largely an artifact of ontological packaging rather than of the empirical findings themselves. Contemporary theories of consciousness — IIT, Global Workspace, predictive processing, Higher-Order Theories, Recurrent Processing, Attention Schema Theory, Orch OR, and others — each package a...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
July 2, 2026
Kathryn K Irish
Introduction: Empathy research spans the social, natural, and clinical sciences, yet its translational impact has been limited by conflicting conceptual frameworks and incompatible methodologies. This paper addresses these barriers by introducing a transdisciplinary framework that consolidates predominant theories of empathy and integrates contemporary neuroscience findings. Methods: A...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 2, 2026
Betül Yıldız
preprint
The aim of this study is to examine the concept of "immediate experience" in the philosophy of F. H. Bradley, one of the prominent figures of British Idealism, and to re-evaluate the philosophical problems it generates within the context of contemporary philosophy of mind. According to Bradley, immediate experience is a primary, non-relational unity that precedes thought, judgment, and the...
Psychedelics
July 1, 2026
Aragorn Eloff, Alessandro Gonçalves Campolina
In this paper, which is in part intended as a speculative provocation and which combines philosophy of science, clinical practice and psychedelic therapy in a novel manner, we examine ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) through the lens of an expanded model of enactive cognition. While much work within both KAP and psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in general has relied upon broadly...
Human Ontology
July 1, 2026
Ryo Yamana, Takumu Fujiyama
This paper examines the notion of further facts and its significance for contemporary metaphysics. Many central metaphysical questions can be understood as disputes over whether certain facts are contingent relative to the physical structure of the universe. A paradigmatic example is the debate over whether mental facts are contingent upon physical facts. Similar issues arise in discussions of...
Caietele Echinox
June 30, 2026
Amalia Cotoi
Within Romanian prose of the first half of the twentieth century, Max Blecher literature occupies a singular position in the narration of the body, representing corporeality as prior to any determinate form of thought. In his prose, embodied memory and perception as a mode of knowledge intersect to configure a body that actively generates its own cognitive processes. Drawing on the explanatory...
Philosophy & Technology
June 30, 2026
Giovanni Rolla
Abstract Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) renewed the enthusiasm for what AIs can do. While some argue that AIs can be viable models for understanding human cognition, others go further and claim that future AIs might display cognitive capacities. However, although some current models excel at tasks such as language processing and pattern recognition, their...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
June 30, 2026
Boris Sergeevich Solozhenkin
In twentieth-century pragmatist thought, a conflict emerged between two epistemological orientations, expressed through the metaphors of coping with (interaction) and copy (representation). This work examines the reductionist approach to resolving this conflict. The starting point is Richard Rorty’s philosophy, which, alongside radical constructivism, embraces the metaphor of coping with while...
IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE
June 30, 2026
Alexander A. Gaidt
The article examines the fundamental causes of the crisis in the contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The most important of these is the formulation of the difficult problem of consciousness as a question about the nature of subjective experience (qualia), which results in the reduction of consciousness to elementary sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. More...