Yin-Cheng Journal of Contemporary Buddhism
October 16, 2026
Harold David Roth
This article argues for incorporating “critical subjectivity,” developed within the emerging interdisciplinary field of Contemplative Studies, into academic scholarship in the humanities and the sciences. Drawing on the author’s intellectual formation through mentors in Chinese philosophy, Buddhist studies, and contemplative practice, it challenges the conventional ideal of purely objective...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
October 16, 2026
Qingchen Guo
The rapid integration of Large Language Models has triggered a global policy dilemma regarding anthropomorphism and user dependency. Because this regulatory challenge is closely tied to an unresolved conceptual ambiguity concerning the nature of AI, this article introduces a phenomenological framework to delineate the essential character of synthetic cognition. To this end, we demonstrate a...
Cognitive Semiotics
October 16, 2026
Yi Yuxi
Abstract Contemporary embodied cognition theories often assume the existence of a mental representation of bodily experience, without explaining how this representation emerges from pre-reflective bodily processes. This paper turns to Alfred North Whitehead’s theory of symbolic reference, developed in Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect. Whitehead distinguishes two modes of perception: causal...
Mindfulness Across Disciplines [Working Title]
October 15, 2026
Amber L Vermeesch, Mary Rockwood Lane
Contemporary healthcare systems are technology-driven, protocol-centered models that disconnect practitioners and patients from healing. There is growing recognition across nursing, medicine, and environmental health sciences that well-being requires restoring the human relationship with the living world. This conceptual-integrative chapter proposes the rewilding health framework through...
October 15, 2026
Julien‐Ferencz Kiss
Abstract This chapter offers a comprehensive examination on the ideological subjugation and institutional dismantling of Romanian psychology under the totalitarian communist regime. It reconstructs the trajectory by which psychology was reduced to a politically controlled technical tool, stripped of its scientific autonomy. The study identifies the abolition of psychology faculties (1977) and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Vladimir Yakunin
preprint
This document describes agents, and consciousness-like organization as a further special case,through their latent spaces. A system has a latent space Z: a compressed description of the stateof the world, of its carrier, and of its own computation. A latent is always a description of somesubsystem of an underlying substrate at some scale. It is not a primitive object and it is not assumedto be...
Psychopathology
October 15, 2026
Luís Madeira, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Giovanni Stanghellini
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and psychopathy may resemble one another at the behavioural surface. All three may involve social difficulties, flattened or atypical affect, unusual communication, interpersonal friction, and impaired social adaptation. Yet their experiential architectures differ in ways that are clinically decisive for differential diagnosis, risk...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 15, 2026
Touraj Banirostam
preprint
This preprint introduces Mind Concepts, a conceptual mapping project that examines key ideas in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Its central aim is to clarify how closely related concepts differ, how they connect, and why these distinctions matter for understanding both human cognition and artificial systems. Using an analytical conceptual mapping approach,...
Open Book Publishers
October 14, 2026
Last Name
The poetry of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge explores the correspondences between human perception and the rhythms of elements that make up the cosmos, stretching in scale from the shape of specific molecules that plants may use to communicate to the astrophysics of stars. My reading of Berssenbrugge’s poetry is situated at the lower end of this range of scales, focusing on how Berssenbrugge envisions...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
October 14, 2026
Jing He, Shaun Gallagher
Abstract Contemporary phenomenology and cognitive science have increasingly converged on the idea that social understanding is embodied, interactive, and enacted in real-time engagement. Interaction theory and enactivism have challenged cognitivist models of social cognition by emphasizing direct perception, affective attunement, and participatory sense-making. Yet while current interactive...