bioRxiv Preprint Server
November 3, 2017
Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman et al.
2 citations
preprint
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 2, 2017
Elisabeth Pacherie
11 citations
Phenomenology understood as a field of enquiry rather than as a movement in the history of philosophy, is concerned with the study of subjective experience and investigates the structure and nature of various types of conscious experiences. One might take collective phenomenology to be concerned with the study of group consciousness, of the subjective states of collectives qua collectives. But...
International Journal of Medical Research and Review
October 31, 2017
D. V. Pal, Dr. Stuti Rastogi, Dr. Amrita Chauhan et al.
2 citations
Background: Therehas been plethora of research regarding cannabis use disorder but very few studies reported demographic and phenomenological differences of acute psychosis with cannabis use to those of acute psychosis without cannabis use. This study attempted to evaluate the demographic and phenomenology differences between two groups of patients presenting with acute psychosis with cannabis...
October 26, 2017
R. Mercer
Abstract Work in what has been known as the theological turn in French phenomenology describes the way in which human beings are always, already open to a religious encounter. This paper will focus on Levinas as a proper transcendental phenomenologist as would be characterized by parts of Husserl and Husserl’s last assistant Eugen Fink. What Levinas does in his phenomenology of the face/other...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
October 20, 2017
Elizabeth Pienkos, Steven M. Silverstein, Louis Arnorsson Sass
26 citations
Abstract This current study is a pilot project designed to clarify changes in the lived world among people with diagnoses within the schizophrenia spectrum. The Examination of Anomalous World Experience ( eawe ) was used to interview ten participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders ( sz ) and a comparison group of three participants with major depressive disorder ( dep ). Interviews were...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 2017
Enzo Tagliazucchi
Conscious awareness refers to information processing in the brain that is accompanied by subjective, reportable experiences. Current models of conscious access propose that sufficiently strong sensory stimuli ignite a global network of regions allowing further processing. The immense number of possible experiences indicates that activity associated with conscious awareness must be highly...
The MIT Press
September 21, 2017
Michael Madary
The main argument of the book is as follows: (1) The descriptive premise: The phenomenology of vision is best described as an ongoing process of anticipation and fulfillment. (2) The empirical premise: There are strong empirical reasons to model vision using the general form of anticipation and fulfillment. (AF) Conclusion: Visual perception is an ongoing process of anticipation and...
Exchange
September 1, 2017
Joseph S. O’Leary
Abstract: Experiences of ‘presence’ are common in religion. This essay attempts to approach presence along phenomenological lines, arguing that the pluralism of the phenomena and contexts referred to is not an obstacle to a methodologically open dialogue between different experiences. Despite the impersonalism of Buddhist conceptions of ultimate reality, personal presences play a considerable...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2017
Bethe Hagens
Abstract: Interbeing is a foundational teaching of Thiền Sư (Zen master) Thích Nhất Hạnh, beloved Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist who has worked closely with Chân Không, an expatriate Vietnamese Buddhist nun. Together they founded Plum Village retreat center in the Dordogne region of France. This volume of invited essays – taken as a whole – reveals the inspirational power of the...
Current Problems of Psychiatry
September 1, 2017
Barnaby Nelson, Louis Arnorsson Sass
29 citations
Abstract Phenomenological research indicates that disturbance of the basic sense of self may be a core phenotypic marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Basic self-disturbance refers to disruption of the sense of ownership of experience and agency of action and is associated with a variety of anomalous subjective experiences. Little is known about the neurocognitive correlates of basic...