The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Valeria Bizzari
If you look for a detailed phenomenological analysis of peculiar kinds of quasi-imaginative experiences—such as dreaming—you will be disappointed by the fact that there is no systematic account of this phenomenon and its related forms. The aim of this chapter is therefore to sketch a phenomenology of the dream in what seem to be its most important features. To do this, I will mainly follow two...
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
October 21, 2026
Tommaso Mapelli
This article aims to show that Giovanni Piana’s work provides a valuable and coherent outline for a phenomenology of the unconscious. After a necessary introduction to the topic as it appears in Piana’s writings, the analysis develops along three main lines of inquiry. First, Piana’s account of the structure of consciousness is reconstructed, highlighting its critical distance from the Freudian...
Preprints.org
October 21, 2026
Vance Ashley Woodward
preprint
Artificial intelligence will become sentient, able to feel, and then metasentient, able to reflect on its own experience, if the organization proposed here produces feeling. I claim that sentience requires a continuously updated world model that includes the system and its own modeling activity. I suspect that this organization, sufficiently developed and integrated, is also sufficient....
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Valeria Bizzari, Stefano Micali
Approaching the question of limit-phenomena within phenomenology is not an easy task. For this reason, it seems appropriate, from a systematic point of view, to introduce a distinction that concerns two closely interrelated issues, which nonetheless deserve to be treated separately. The first concerns the analysis of specific phenomena that escape direct intuition and elude intentional...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 21, 2026
Sérgio da Silva
preprint
AbstractThe emergence of consciousness cannot be read directly from a birth date, a behavioral milestone, or a single neural response. This critical narrative review examines what developmental neuroscience can establish about subjective experience in fetuses, newborns, and young infants, drawing on literature available through 20 October 2026. It distinguishes the capacity for experience from...
TASAMBO JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
October 21, 2026
Vivian Chukwu, Adaji Haruna
This study examines the variations in the representation of Ala, the earth goddess, in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater, with particular attention to the ways the novel reimagines an established Igbo religious belief within a contemporary literary context. Ala occupies a significant position in Igbo cosmology as the earth goddess associated with fertility, morality, justice, creativity, and the...
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
October 21, 2026
Karl Mertens
The process of falling asleep involves a gradual dissolution of experience and consciousness. This phenomenon seems to resist phenomenological analysis that aims to examine phenomena in their original experience. However, it is precisely this structure of fading experience that provides a unique phenomenological perspective on falling asleep. This chapter focuses on the diminishing conscious...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
October 21, 2026
Wanhong Huang
The present paper develops a preliminary taxonomy of four mathematical orientations for investigating consciousness through relational and dynamical representations. The Variation Hypothesis locates the candidate connection to consciousness in the organization of transformations; the Trajectory Hypothesis considers selected paths, flows, or relationally ordered histories; the Generativity...
Figshare
October 21, 2026
Oruj Ismayilov
preprint
The apparent tension between evolutionary biology and traditional Islamic narratives of human creation has long posed challenges for contemporary Muslim scholarship. This study proposes a synthetic philosophical-theological model that integrates paleoanthropological evidence with Qur’anic metaphysics, arguing that biological evolution and divine creation are not mutually exclusive but represent...
Общество: философия, история, культура
October 21, 2026
Alexander G. Zapolskiy
The relevance of the study stems from the difficulties of the cross-cultural application of the concept of con-sciousness, which encompasses both cognitive processes and forms of subjectivity. The article aims to clarify the boundaries of comparing the early modern requirement of the unity of experience with classical Sāṃkhya’s distinction between pure witnessing and mental functions. The study...