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Real Hallucinations September 15, 2017 Matthew Ratcliffe
This chapter widens the scope of the discussion, to include types of hallucination not so far considered. It begins by drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on hallucination in Phenomenology of Perception, in order to identify a type of experience that differs both from orthodox hallucination and from the kinds of experience described in earlier chapters. The chapter goes on to consider auditory...
September 15, 2017 David Skrbina
An updated edition of a comprehensive study of the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things. In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism—the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things—in consideration of the nature of consciousness and mind....
Oxford University Press eBooks September 14, 2017 Susan Blackmore
What is consciousness? What does it do? Could we have evolved without it? ‘Why the mystery?’ considers the definition of consciousness and how psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers have tried to explain it. From the Cartesian dualism of René Descartes to the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, a phrase coined in 1994 by the Australian philosopher David Chalmers, and the question ‘What...
September 14, 2017 A. Purser
Abstract This paper responds to calls across the sociological, philosophical and psychological dimensions of Sports Studies to attend to the promise of phenomenology as an approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of embodied athletic experience. The work of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is drawn upon to elucidate expertise through a non-dualist framework for understanding...
Religions September 10, 2017 Juyoung Lee, Jane W. Davidson
This qualitative study aims to understand the factors motivating Korean migrants’ participation in weekly Charismatic Prayer Meetings in a Catholic Church. As music plays a crucial role in these meetings, the paper explores whether active engagement with music motivated the long-term commitment of participants to the meetings. The research is based on a thematic analysis of a focus group...
September 7, 2017 Veronica M. F. Adamson 1 citation
This chapter focuses on three themes: a life limited by illness, aesthetic experience and the return enhanced. The tension of Jane&s;s dying has been resolved as the rhythmic patterns of the lifeworld have been understood through the process of reflecting on the experience. A more recent sociological interpretation of Kant suggests that the aesthetic experience of cultural objects is...
Journal of Theoretical Biology September 7, 2017 David Rudrauf, Daniel Bennequin, Isabela Granic et al.
We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of consciousness (FoC) is structured by a projective geometry and under the control of a process of active inference. The FoC in the PCM combines multisensory evidence with prior beliefs in memory and frames them by selecting points of...
Neuroscience of Consciousness September 6, 2017 Megan A. K. Peters, Robert W. Kentridge, I. Phillips et al.
In our ASSC20 symposium, “Does unconscious perception really exist?”, the four of us asked some difficult questions about the purported phenomenon of unconscious perception, disagreeing on a number of points. This disagreement reflected the objective of the symposium: not only to come together to discuss a single topic of keen interest to the ASSC community, but to do so in a way that would...
September 2, 2017 Oren Ergas
This article's main theme is the conceptualization of a 'body-oriented-pedagogy' that unfolds a possibleaccount of 'how one learns from the body'. Based on B.K.S Iyengar's approach to yoga-posture practice,which is embedded in classical yoga's philosophy of 'mind', a 'body-oriented pedagogy' is depicted as apractice that seeks to incite 'embodied mindfulness'. The pedagogy trains one in turning...
Journal of Contemporary Religion September 2, 2017 Jens Schlieter 19 citations
For about 25 years, mindfulness meditation has attracted growing attention. Developed in the context of a traditional Asian religious tradition, mindfulness meditation originally served soteriological goals. In therapeutic settings, it has been claimed, it has become a secular ‘consciousness technology’. So far, studies have mainly been interested in clinical evidence for salutogenetic effects....