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August 13, 2026 Dafydd Mills Daniel, David Mills Daniel
Is there a soul, and, if there is, what is it and does it necessarily survive death? And, if there is life after death, how can I be sure that I am still the same person in the next life that I am in this present one? In exploring answers to these and many other related questions, this chapter examines how debates about the soul and the afterlife are essentially debates about what makes you,...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) August 12, 2026 Tenzin Trepp preprint
How should we understand human agency and moral responsibility in a world governed by natural laws? This paper develops a compatibilist account grounded in cognitive constructivism, proposing that agency is best conceived as a model-control architecture. On this view, an agent is a self-constructing, self-controlling system defined by its capacity to generate, select, inhibit, and revise...
Dev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal August 12, 2026
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali present a sophisticated psychological framework for understanding the human mind. Central to this philosophy is chitta, the mind-field composed of consciousness, intellect, and ego, and its disturbances, known as chitta vrittis. These mental fluctuations influence perception, emotional stability, and spiritual development. Patanjali proposes Abhyasa (consistent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 12, 2026 Ali Safaei preprint
This paper introduces a unified framework for the philosophy of perception that systematically integrates bottom-up sensory constraints with top-down cognitive processes. By establishing a shared structural architecture for all subjective experiences, the present framework demonstrates how genuine perceptions, illusions, and hallucinations can be derived from the same underlying mechanism....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 12, 2026 Tenzin Trepp preprint
This paper offers a contemporary reinterpretation of Plotinus’s doctrine of emanation by translating the metaphysical sequence One → Nous → Psyche into an ontological–phenomenological account of human experience. The Plotinean One is refigured as the Ontological Now: the immediate, objective presence of reality as experienced under maximal present-constraint, with minimal conceptual and...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences August 12, 2026 Victor Machado Barcellos
Abstract This paper investigates whether the concept of “phenomenal consciousness” is an integral component of ordinary folk psychology or a theoretical construct devised within a specific epistemic community. Advocates of what I term the Folk- “Consciousness” Thesis argue that laypeople already possess such a concept, citing experimental findings in support of this view. In contrast, I draw on...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 12, 2026 Francis Smith preprint
Consciousness research often moves from neural measurements to claims about conscious states without clearly separating the biological system, the observation procedure, empirical state-space structure, operational coordination, and theoretical realization conditions. This paper develops a factorized framework that distinguishes these levels and asks which distinctions are empirically...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research August 12, 2026 Elias Rubenstein
Structured practices in ritual and contemplative settings often claim reliable change through formal protocols, disciplined attention, prior alignment, and staged calibration. Debate commonly polarizes between extraordinary causation and generic expectancy accounts. This paper offers a third option: a methodological framework that treats such practices as informational interventions acting on...
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Especializada de las Américas August 11, 2026 Yanelis Celena Atencio
Mindfulness como Herramienta para el Manejo de la Ansiedad Precompetitiva en un Equipo de Voleibol. El objetivo primordial de este estudio es examinar qué tan bien funciona un programa de intervención de mindfulness para atenuar la ansiedad que sienten los deportistas adultos antes de competir. Esta indagación surge de la imperiosa necesidad de cuidar la salud mental en el mundo del deporte,...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences August 11, 2026 SJ Cowan
Abstract This essay develops an account of aesthetic form. Aesthetic form is not a matter of genre, style, or presentation, but the organization of appearance in which ordinary orientation breaks down and becomes a claim on thought. It requires a discipline of preserving both resistance and surrender in the face of what disturbs sense. Written in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Alva...