Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
March 1, 2019
Hane Htut Maung
It is often claimed in parts of the psychiatric literature that neuroscientific research into the biological basis of mental disorder undermines dualism in the philosophy of mind. This paper shows that such a claim does not apply to all forms of dualism. Focusing on Kenneth Kendler's discussion of the mind-body problem in biological psychiatry, I argue that such criticism of dualism often...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2019
Charlotte Martial, Héléna Cassol, Vanessa Charland-Verville et al.
98 citations
The real or perceived proximity to death often results in a non-ordinary state of consciousness characterized by phenomenological features such as the perception of leaving the body boundaries, feelings of peace, bliss and timelessness, life review, the sensation of traveling through a tunnel and an irreversible threshold. Near-death experiences (NDEs) are comparable among individuals of...
arXiv Preprint Archive
February 12, 2019
Adam B. Barrett, Pedro A. M. Mediano
preprint
According to the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness, consciousness is a fundamental observer-independent property of physical systems, and the measure Phi of integrated information is identical to the quantity or level of consciousness. For this to be plausible, there should be no alternative formulae for Phi consistent with the axioms of IIT, and there should not be cases of Phi...
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen'
February 6, 2019
O. A. Bazaluk
5 citations
In recent decades, attempts to create and argue a new ontology of existence that could provide a robust alternative to the mainstream physicalist metaphysics have been made in science and philosophy. A new book by Bernardo Kastrup (2019, 312 p.), a well-known specialist in the field of philosophy of mind and neuroscience of consciousness, offers the author's conceptually clear and rigorous...
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
February 5, 2019
Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge
How does the integrated and unified conscious experience arise from the vastly distributed activities of the nervous system? How is the information from the many cones of the retina bound with information coming from the cochlea to create the association of sounds with objects in visual space? In this perspective article, we assert a novel viewpoint on the "binding problem" in which we explain...
Consciousness and Cognition
February 1, 2019
Oussama Abdoun, Jelle Zorn, Stefano Poletti et al.
44 citations
Empirical descriptions of the phenomenology of meditation states rely on practitioners' ability to provide accurate information on their experience. We present a meditation training protocol that was designed to equip naive participants with a theoretical background and experiential knowledge that would enable them to share their experience. Subsequently, novices carried on with daily practice...
İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi
January 29, 2019
Mehtap Doğan
İlk Çağ’dan beri filozofların temel problemlerinden olan nefsin varlığı, mahiyeti, ölümsüzlüğü ve bedenle ilişkisi konuları, İbn Sînâ metafiziğinin de ontoloji ve epistemoloji arasında köprü görevi gören önemli tartışmalarındandır. İbn Sînâ’nın nefs anlayışı hem Platon hem de Aristoteles felsefeleriyle benzerlikler taşısa da birçok yönüyle ikisini de aşan konumdadır. Ruh-beden problemi...
Philosophical Psychology
2019
Wayne Martin, Tania Gergel, Gareth S Owen
Time-consciousness has long been a focus of research in phenomenology and phenomenological psychology. We advance and extend this tradition of research by focusing on the character of temporal experience under conditions of mania. Symptom scales and diagnostic criteria for mania are peppered with temporally inflected language: increased rate of speech, racing thoughts, flight-of-ideas,...
Psychopathology
2019
Maria Nilsson, Peter Handest, Lena Nylander et al.
The aim of this paper is to provide arguments for a phenomenologically informed clinical approach to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including a plea for clinical attention to the self in ASD. Central concepts of continental phenomenology, phenomenological psychopathology, and the phenomenological interview are presented, with an emphasis on the potential unifying qualities of an approach which...
Psychopathology
2019
Louis Sass
This paper offers a hermeneutic-phenomenological perspective on three dangers relevant to the psychotherapy of an underserved and often poorly understood population: persons with schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions. The discussion offered relies on analyses offered by Heidegger (on the "forgetting of the ontological difference"), Husserl (on the nature and importance of...