Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The mind--body problem asks where the mental belongs in a physical world, and philosophy of mind is the literature of every answer yet proposed. This article presents a narrative review of that literature's primary line. The synthesis is organized around three themes: the dualist settlement and its mid-century collapse, in which Descartes's thinking substance, Ryle's category mistake, and the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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This article presents a narrative review of The Hard Problem of Consciousness in the context of Philosophy. The literature on this topic has expanded substantially over recent decades, yet it remains fragmented across subfields, methods, and national research traditions. Drawing on an interpretive synthesis of representative contributions, the review reconstructs the historical development of...
August 31, 2026
Carl Raschke
Carl A. Raschke links quantum entanglement and ephaptic coupling to consciousness studies, proposing a transcendental semiotics of religious experience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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This narrative review examines the current state of knowledge regarding Phenomenology and Perception within the broader context of Philosophy. We survey the theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and key findings that have shaped the field, identifying major themes and tracing the evolution of ideas over time. The review synthesizes evidence from multiple research traditions and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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Phenomenology---the philosophy that describes experience from within---rebuilt European thought around consciousness's structures, and its century runs from Husserl's transcendental turn through Heidegger's being-in-the-world to Merleau-Ponty's embodiment. This article presents a narrative review of that tradition's canonical line: Husserl's 1913 Ideas I and 1931 Cartesian Meditations,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The mind-body problem asks how mental phenomena---experience, intention, subjectivity---relate to physical processes, and its modern history runs from Descartes' dualism through identity theory's physicalism to the hard problem's contemporary revival. This article presents a narrative review of the debate's canonical line: Descartes' 1641 Meditations, Ryle's 1949 ghost-in-the-machine critique,...
Figshare
August 29, 2026
Alan Michael Gómez Calderón
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Claims about phenomenal consciousness frequently move from functional, representational, self-referential, informational, or behavioral properties of a system to the conclusion that the system must possess qualia or phenomenal experience. This paper asks a more elementary question: where, formally, does phenomenology enter the model?We provide a mechanically checked analysis in the Coq proof...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 28, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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DESCRIPTION / ABSTRACT: Abstract: Vedanta 2.1 develops the central problem left open by Vedanta 2.0: what is meant by the Witness (draṣṭā/sākṣin), and can witnessing awareness be reduced to another mental representation? The inquiry begins neither from a metaphysical conclusion nor from a neuroscientific claim. It begins from an ordinary phenomenological possibility: thoughts, memories,...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 27, 2026
Chengcheng Wu
This paper critically examines the view that Husserl's 1891 essay The Logic of Signs (LoS) anticipates the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). According to this interpretation, Husserl's account of symbolic inference endorses an automatic, syntactic, causally driven model of thought. However, this study argues that such a reading neglects Husserl's broader philosophical context and his explicit...
Research in Phenomenology
August 25, 2026
Jonathan Owen Clark
Abstract This essay concerns two distinct topics in Husserlian phenomenology. The first is “image consciousness” [ Bildbewusstsein ], which concerns the experiential nature of our encounters with pictures and other depictive objects. The second is “historicity” [ Geschichtlichkeit ], which refers to how human subjects, prior to any detailed knowledge of history, are in some sense always already...