Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
March 23, 2018
Hugh Nicholson
Abstract Characteristic of the recent cognitive approach to religion (CSR) is the thesis that religious discourse and practice are rooted in an inveterate human propensity to explain events in terms of agent causality. This thesis readily lends itself to the critical understanding of religious belief as “our intuitive psychology run amok.” This effective restriction of the scientific critique...
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March 21, 2018
Michael Eigen
A lot of therapy is about the slow recovery of faith, at least more of it, a more informed faith, wiser, fuller, ready for anything. Although S. Freud ostensibly developed a theory and clinical approach to neurosis, the author points out in The Psychotic Core that his concepts are heavily steeped in a phenomenology of psychosis. Freud spoke of flooding as a primal trauma. Mystics also attest to...
March 18, 2018
Polgolle Kusaladhamma
Neuroscientists and genetics started a new era in human history. Neuroscience is a modern science and it developed after 1950. Scientific study of the body investigates how the messages in transit from the senses to the brain and make decisions and feelings. The neuron system of the body is the coordinator of the transiting information in the body. Neurons are cells specialized for...
March 15, 2018
Jennifer Windt
7 citations
Sleep is phenomenologically rich, supporting diverse kinds of conscious experience as well as transient loss of consciousness. Sleep is also cognitively and behaviorally rich, with different sleep stages supporting different kinds of memory processing as well as sleep behaviors ranging from subtle muscle twitches to seemingly goal-directed behaviors, as in sleepwalking, sleep talking, and rapid...
March 15, 2018
Francis Fallon
5 citations
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) accepts the Cartesian conviction that consciousness has immediate, self-evident properties, and outlines the implications of these phenomenological axioms for conscious physical systems. This characterization does not exhaustively describe the theoretical ambition of IIT. According to IIT, the physical state of any conscious system must converge with...
March 15, 2018
Berit “Brit” Brogaard, Elijah Chudnoff
1 citation
This chapter argues that the phenomenology of one type of multisensory experience that goes beyond mere co-consciousness derives exclusively from the individual sensory modalities. Call this type of experience "modal multisensory experience". The chapter also argues that another kind of normal multisensory experience that goes beyond mere co-consciousness requires a different treatment. The...
March 15, 2018
Christian Coseru
3 citations
This chapter considers the sheer amount of literature associated with the exploration of consciousness in Indian philosophy. It focuses on a range of methodological and conceptual issues, drawing on three main sources: the naturalist theories of mind of Nyaya and Vaisesika, the mainly phenomenological accounts of mental activity and consciousness of Abhidharma and Yogacara Buddhism, and the...
March 15, 2018
Larry M. Jorgensen
21 citations
The search for consciousness in Ancient Greek philosophical texts may well be a fool&s;s errand. However, other scholars have noted some overlapping concepts or concerns in Ancient Greek texts, which—with the necessary translation—can be seen as in the family of issues related to consciousness. A naturalized theory is a theory that has no irresolvable "mysteries"—mysteries like those presented...
March 15, 2018
Demian Whiting
7 citations
This chapter addresses three questions: first, what is meant by saying that emotions are conscious; second, why does it matter whether emotions are conscious; and third, is it the case that emotions are always conscious. The claim that emotions feel a certain way is consistent also with two further ideas. To begin with, it is consistent with the view that the what-it-is-likeness of emotion is...
March 15, 2018
Chad Gonnerman
2 citations
This chapter reviews research in the rapidly growing corner of the experimental philosophy of mind. A. I. Goldman and M. McGrath outline two ways of using cognitive science in epistemology. There are applications to the epistemic subject and applications to the epistemic attributor . One work that has shaped the experimental philosophy of consciousness is H. M. Gray, K. Gray, and D. Wegner....