Research in Phenomenology
August 25, 2026
Daniel Reid Smyth
Abstract Hermann Schmitz offers one of the most extensive descriptions available of embodied space, characterizing it as pre-sensorial, indivisible, and surfaceless yet capable of disclosing absolute locations. Schmitz nevertheless anchors the felt body’s absolute location in temporal irruption rather than in the ability for lived space to ground itself in rest. This article argues that...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 23, 2026
Vishesh Srivastava
Beliefs surrounding black magic, spirit influence, and ritual harm have long been interwoven into India's cultural and spiritual fabric, significantly shaping personal behavior, social relationships, and health-seeking pathways. Despite their prevalence, discourse in this domain remains sharply divided between traditional acceptance and empirical dismissal, leaving the subjective, lived reality...
August 21, 2026
Steven Mclelland
Cognitive Phenomenology’s central question asks is there something it is like to think, i.e. is there a phenomenological sense to the act of thinking. The inclusivist position holds there is something it is like to think while the exclusivists believe that there is not and so thinking should not be considered to have a phenomenology. A cognitive phenomenological sense, to be considered as such,...
August 19, 2026
Andrei Văduva, Răzvan Călin
This chapter functions as a comparative review designed to orient readers—both within and outside philosophy—to the conceptual vocabulary necessary for the model developed in this book. It introduces and clarifies terms such as perception, identity, individuality, Emotion, Logic, Reason, and intentionality by situating them within the established discourse of the philosophy of mind. The chapter...
Psychosis
August 18, 2026
Tatiana Baxter, Sohee Park
Felt presence (FP) involves sensing another social entity nearby without clear, corresponding evidence. Characteristics of FP depend on context. Previous work suggests FP is meaningful and welcomed in spiritual practice, but in psychotic-like states, FPs are intrusive, distressing, and intense. However, real-world contexts are rarely so discrete. A total of 337 participants completed an...
August 18, 2026
George Webster
Recent discussions of QBism have turned increasingly toward the question of its ontology. I argue that key insights into QBism's ontology of agency can be identified by reconstructing its response to Wigner's friend paradox. I clarify the relation between two formulations of that response: one grounded in the claim that quantum states are agents'personal probability assignments, and another...
August 16, 2026
Nandini Mishra
The question of consciousness remains one of the most challenging issues in contemporary philosophy. David Chalmers has transformed the issue through his formulation of the "Hard Problem of Consciousness," which distinguishes subjective experience from cognitive and behavioral functions. Chalmers's philosophy of consciousness, focusing on the explanatory gap between physical processes and...
Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
August 15, 2026
Filip Gołaszewski, Jan Molina
Dreams, Myth, and the Phenomenology of EntanglementWe are pleased to introduce the second of the two consecutive issues of Eidos.A Journal for Philosophy of Culture entitled Phenomenology and Narrative (respectively Part 1 and Part 2).This issue continues the investigations into the intersections signaled in its title, being on the one hand slightly more closely focused on classical...
Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría
August 15, 2026
Roberto Aristegui Lagos, Javier García-campayo, Paulina Lamas-Morales
This article presents a theoretical and conceptual analysis of self-deconstruction in contemporary contemplative and clinical practices. It argues that psychological suffering is not primarily related to the existence of the self as such, but to its ontological and linguistic reification as a fixed identity, corresponding to idem-identity and to what Heidegger described as an ontology of...
Psychedelics
August 15, 2026
Khaleel Rajwani
Recent interdisciplinary scholarship has demonstrated how systemic racism, racialized mental health disparities, and histories of colonial and biomedical violence shape psychedelic experiences, therapeutic outcomes, and processes of integration. Emerging literature has foregrounded concerns including racial underrepresentation in research, the violent legacy of the War on Drugs, systemic racism...