Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Health is ordinarily attributed to the body. Disease is diagnosed within organs, tissues, and physiological systems, and recovery is therefore easily imagined as the restoration of order within the same bounded biological unit. This paper challenges the inference from the bodily location of pathology to the bodily containment of health, arguing that the unit within which pathology is correctly...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 16, 2026
Stefan Anderson
preprint
This paper outlines a dual-aspect model of subjectivity and agency that rejects the standard division between libertarian free will, compatibilism, and mechanistic determinism. Living beings instantiate a single underlying substance with two inseparable aspects—physical and phenomenal. Subjectivity is the phenomenal interior of life itself, not an epiphenomenon of physical processes nor an...
International Journal of Education and Humanities
August 16, 2026
Wei Hu
The intellectual grasp of impermanence does not necessarily bring about a sense of peace in life and spirit, and thus a psychological and spiritual vacuum occurs. Using the idea of Emptiness (Śūnyatā) in Buddhist philosophy, Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theories were combined to examine the origin and form of this gap in this paper. Although people today are aware of the...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 16, 2026
Karl Sipfle
Contemporary fundamental physics, on inspection, resolves almost entirely into relational structure. Charge, energy, mass, and quantum state each turn out, under analysis, to be conserved or covariant quantities defined by symmetry-relations rather than intrinsic properties of independently existing substances; even the fermionic “matter particles” of the Standard Model interact only through...
August 16, 2026
Morten Overgaard, Martin Dietz, Peter Thestrup Waade
preprint
Scientific theories of consciousness are typically evaluated by comparing empirical findings across experimental paradigms. Such comparisons implicitly assume that different paradigms provide commensurable evidence and do not systematically favour particular theoretical interpretations. Here, we test this assumption using the updated ConTraSt database, comprising 518 published consciousness...
Perspectivas
August 15, 2026
Shayan Hamraz
Sellars criticized the sense-datum theory as a form of 'the Myth of the Given' in the first and second parts of his article 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'. In the present article, only his criticisms in the first part have been examined. He presented two critiques of sense data theory. At the end, I have concluded that both of his criticisms contain multiple flaws. He overlooked one...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
August 15, 2026
Tomasz Figura, Marek Kuźniak
Abstract This article proposes a reconceptualization of action and cognition within Cognitive Linguistics (CL) by re-examining its foundational metaphorical models. While meaning in the field is often defined as embodied and usage-based, its dominant metaphors remain static, privileging stability over process. Methodologically, the research in this paper adopts the principles of the “Cognitive...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Francesca Maffettone
The relationship between the father of phenomenology and the father of the philosophy of stories has been described as a departure of Wilhelm Schapp from Edmund Husserl, following the turn to transcendental idealism marked by the publication of Ideen (1913).This supposed rupture is taken to ground Schapp's narratological reinterpretation of phenomenology.Nevertheless, Schapp's work...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Shyam Vishal, Sharma Anita
preprint
The present paper undertakes a systematic and scholarly examination of psychological thought embedded within four major Eastern philosophical and spiritual systems: the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism (with particular emphasis on meditation & mental purification), Sufism (the mystical tradition of Islam), and Integral Yoga (as systematised by Sri Aurobindo & further developed by Mirra Alfassa, aka the...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Nicolas de Warren
This essay examines dreaming as a challenge to the dichotomy between narrative and episodic conceptions of the self.Drawing on Sartre's phenomenology of the imaginary, it argues that dreams elude both accounts: dream consciousness is episodic and pre-reflective -reflective awareness that one is dreaming would annihilate the dream -yet dreams are experienced, on Sartre's insight, as "a story...