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October 28, 2016 V. Tumanov
Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris (1972) is studied through the lens of philosophy of mind. The question of memory and personhood, as developed by John Locke and then expanded by Derek Parfit, is applied to the status of Hari – the copy of the protagonist's deceased wife. The key question addressed by this paper is on what basis Hari can (or should?) be considered human. Hari's personhood is...
Waikato Journal of Education September 22, 2016 Christopher Schmidt
Phenomenology is a methodological approach to research that has been broadly influential on established qualitative and interpretative perspectives. Founded in the work of German philosophers, it offers challenges in both understanding and practice. These stem, in part, from the requirement of the researcher to actively seek personal and deep meaning from those who are studied; and from the...
Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos September 12, 2016 Paul Giladi
ABSTRACT: In this paper, I argue that Hegel’s critique of Kant’s theory of experience aims at defending a thick (or robust) account of experience: whilst both Kant and Hegel oppose the Myth of the Given and a non-conceptualist understanding of the content of experience, Hegel’s disagreement with Kant is centred on the fact that Kant only provides this conceptualist account of experience on the...
Frontiers in Neuroscience September 7, 2016 Berit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia 9 citations
OPINION article Front. Neurosci., 07 September 2016Sec. Neuroprosthetics Volume 10 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00395
Animal Sentience September 6, 2016 Linda A.W. Brakel
Reber’s Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC) has much to recommend it. However, while the CBC effectively renders null any ontological gap between mind and body, it leaves two important remaining gaps unaddressed: the epistemologic and the causal gap. Brakel’s (2013) Diachronic Conjunctive Token Physicalism (DiCoToP) is briefly introduced as a beginning remedy for the epistemologic, but...
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks August 21, 2016 Alfredo Pereira, Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal, Massimo Pregnolato 7 citations
A solution to the Hard Problem formulated by Chalmers should include a biophysical nonreductive explanation of the qualities of conscious experience ( subjective qualia). This task is nearly impossible to be performed in the context of Modern Physics, since most influential scientists and philosophers conceived such qualities as being mental phenomena without a physical counterpart. We propose...
August 6, 2016 N. Zippel
Abstract : The central aim of this paper is to offer a historical reconstruction of phenomenological studies on dreaming and to put forward a draft for a phenomenological theory of the dream state. Prominent phenomenologists have offered an extremely valuable interpretation of the dream as an intentional process, stressing its relevance in understanding the complexity of the mental life of...
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice August 1, 2016 Inês Hipólito 6 citations
Several studies suggest that the disorders of the self include a disturbance of the most elementary component of self - the minimal self. Characterizing these disorders and understanding the mechanisms involved remain a challenge to medical epistemology and health care professionals. In the present work, I bring together concepts of different fields, such as neuroscience, epistemology and...
Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry July 28, 2016 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, Jean-Pierre Noël Llored
CHEMIST AND PHILOSOPHER of chemistry Joseph E. Earley has recently argued that, in order to resolve some of its most seemingly intractable problems, philosophy of mind should take into consideration the work currently being done in philosophy of chemistry. This is because there exist obvious parallels between questions that inform philosophy of chemistry and the so-called hard problem of...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies July 1, 2016 Steve Taylor 30 citations
This paper argues for a soft perennialism, distinct from the hard perennialism which suggests that spiritual and religious traditions are expressions of the same underlying spiritual realities.There are two reasons why it is necessary to think in terms of a soft perennial model: firstly, because of a number of important common themes or trends across spiritual traditions; and secondly (and most...