Study of Religion
2018
Tatiana Sergeevna Samarina
The article deals with the theory of levels of religiosity proposed by one of the classics of the phenomenology of religion F. Heiler. In his works he offered a system of levels of religiosity structured from primitive to higher - mystical and prophetic - types. The article presents Heiler’s theory and summarizes the main features of the two higher types of religiosity, showing their...
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Mark Solms
This article applies the free energy principle to the hard problem of consciousness. After clarifying some philosophical issues concerning functionalism, it identifies the elemental form of consciousness as affect and locates its physiological mechanism (an extended form of homeostasis) in the upper brainstem. This mechanism is then formalized in terms of free energy minimization (in...
HORIZON / Fenomenologicheskie issledovanija/ STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGIE / STUDIES IN PHENOMENOLOGY / ÉTUDES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES
2018
Pradeep P. Gokhale
3 citations
Unlike most other philosophical systems of India, Buddhism, though it gives a central place to “consciousness” in its philosophical enquiry, does not raise its status to a transcendental metaphysical level. Buddhism, in this way, has a special affinity with the phenomenological approach. The present paper focuses on the points of a contact between phenomenology and Mindfulness meditation, the...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2018
Frederick S. Barrett, Roland R. Griffiths
268 citations
This chapter begins with a brief review of descriptions and definitions of mystical-type experiences and the historical connection between classic hallucinogens and mystical experiences. The chapter then explores the empirical literature on experiences with classic hallucinogens in which claims about mystical or religious experiences have been made. A psychometrically validated questionnaire is...
Intuitio
December 20, 2017
Maria Chiara Bruttomesso
1 citation
Questo articolo analizza due aspetti correlati del corpo fenomenologico - il fatto della individuazione Permettere di base e il suo essere socialmente orientate fin dall'inizio. Per fare questo, ho attuali teorie di Scheler sul corpo vissuto, concentrandosi sulle nozioni di Leibschema e individuazione del primario. Poi valuto teoria del "flusso indifferenziato" di Scheler per mostrare solo il...
Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Filosofiya Sotsiologiya Politologiya
December 1, 2017
Ilya Andreevich Gushchin, Olga Aleksandrovna Kozyreva
1 citation
ФИЛОСОФИЯ СОЗНАНИЯ СКВОЗЬ ПРИЗМУ АНАЛИЗА ЯЗЫКА: ОТ МЕТАФИЗИКИ ДО НАРРАТИВАОбсуждается вопрос о взаимоотношении философии языка и философии сознания.Демонстрируется версия ответа на него, которая предполагает, что метод анализа языка является методом анализа ключевых проблем философии сознания, что приводит к тому, что философия сознания поглощается философией языка и утра-
November 28, 2017
F. K. Jansen
Chalmers introduced the hard problem of consciousness as a profound gap between experience and physical concepts. Philosophical theories were based on different interpretations concerning the qualia/concept gap, such as interactive dualism (Descartes), as well as mono aspect or dual aspect monism. From a bio-psychological perspective, the gap can be explained by the different activity of two...
Filozofska istraživanja
November 23, 2017
Olga Nikolić
SažetakTekst istražuje pravac u suvremenoj fenomenologiji i kognitivnoj znanosti koji teži inter disciplinarnoj suradnji dvije discipline.Pažljivim proučavanjem konstitutivne uloge živog tijela (Leib) za svijest i kogniciju, autori poput Varele, Thompsona, Gallaghera i Zahavija razvijaju novu istraživačku paradigmu da bi na originalan način nadišli tradicionalni du alizam duha i tijela.Najprije...
Scientific Reports
November 16, 2017
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al.
111 citations
Altered states of consciousness, such as psychotic or pharmacologically-induced hallucinations, provide a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms underlying conscious perception. However, the phenomenological properties of these states are difficult to isolate experimentally from other, more general physiological and cognitive effects of psychoactive substances or psychopathological...
November 15, 2017
Evan Thompson
This paper is a commentary on Dan Arnold's book, Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind, presented at the Toshide Numata Book Prize Symposium, "Taking Buddhist Philosophy of Mind Seriously," University of California, Berkeley, November 15, 2013.