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May 16, 2018 Brandon Rickabaugh
Introduction Materialism permeates philosophy of mind. Yet, increasing difficulties are triggering dissent. William Hasker’s insightful yet underappreciated work in the philosophy of mind is representative. Hasker does not favor the recent turn toward non-reductive physicalism either. Rather, his argument from the unity of consciousness entails SUBSTANCE DUALISM. Additionally, Hasker maintains...
Routledge eBooks May 15, 2018 Merle Molofsky
To read Michael Eigen&s;s work, to participate in his seminars, and to experience him as a human being, is to become aware of all that psychoanalysis can be for each of us—the possibility of a psychoanalysis as big as the world. His level of comfort with fragmentation, whether the fragmentation of Lurianic Kaballah, psychotic states, or the everyday expansions and contractions of self, invites...
Frontiers in Psychiatry May 14, 2018 Ben J Palanca, Hannah R. Maybrier, Angela M. Mickle et al. 16 citations
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) employs the elective induction of generalizes seizures as a potent treatment for severe psychiatric illness. As such, ECT provides an opportunity to rigorously study the recovery of consciousness, reconstitution of cognition, and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity following seizures. Fifteen patients with major depressive disorder refractory to pharmacologic...
Humanities May 11, 2018 Ruth Finnegan 5 citations
The basic principle of folklore is constant—unveiling the hidden riches within the ordinary things of everyday life: a fine contribution to, and coordination with, the humanities. Examples are the study of the oral/orality; life stories of the obscure; practices of ‘hidden’ amateur musicians, studied ethnographically rather than through written scores or the ‘great’ composers; research by...
Synthese May 11, 2018 David Jenkins
Abstract Williamson’s (Knowledge and its limits, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, Chapter 4) “anti-luminosity” argument aims to establish that there are no significant luminous conditions. “Far from forming a cognitive home”, luminous conditions are mere “curiosities” (2000, p. 109). Even supposing Williamson’s argument succeeds in showing that there are no significant luminous states his...
Frontiers in Psychiatry May 9, 2018 Jan Dirk Blom, Esmeralda Mangoenkarso 20 citations
Background: Sexual hallucinations are probably the most neglected types of hallucination, even in psychiatric settings. They are often multimodal in nature, and their prevalence rate is unknown. For other types of hallucination, notably auditory hallucinations, childhood trauma is an important risk factor. However, whether this also applies to sexual hallucinations is unknown. Objective: To...
Routledge eBooks May 8, 2018 Richard L. Kradin
The fact that dreams occur when waking consciousness is diminished is one way of understanding Sigmund Freud&s;s dictum that dreams are the via regia to the unconscious. Most dreams are reported just prior to waking and the average dream lasts for several minutes. Although the phenomenology of dreams has been exhaustively catalogued, no overarching theory of dreams has been developed. C. G....
May 8, 2018 Donald Robertson
The Stoic emphasis upon the here and now is closely associated with a sense of mortality, transience, and urgency. The emphasis upon “mindfulness” is probably the most notable aspect of Stoicism to be neglected by early proponents of cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT). The modern CBT seems to fall short of explicitly endorsing a system of positive values of the kind found in Stoicism, although...
May 8, 2018 David Livingston Smith 1 citation
In this chapter, the author examines aspects of the evolution of Sigmund Freud&s;s philosophy of mind. In particular, the author investigates his views on the &s;mind body problem&s; and the concept of neural unconscious mental events. Epiphenomenalists did not take the final step to materialism by equating mind and brain. The split-consciousness theory was closely, although by no means...
Russian Studies in Philosophy May 4, 2018 Victoria G. Lysenko 2 citations
How is the approach of Indian philosophers to the study of consciousness different from that of their Western counterparts? To answer this question, it is necessary to understand how the Indian philosophical tradition distinguishes between consciousness and non-consciousness. How does it present and solve the mind-body problem? The article explores the difference in understanding of mind and...