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October 3, 2011
Toru Uehara, Yoko Ishige, Masashi Su
Dissociation in adolescence has been described as a part of severe psychopathology with a complex comorbidity or serious trauma including sexual abuse (e.g., Chu and Dill, 1990; Sar et al., 2006). In contrast, it is also possible for healthy subjects to experience nonpathological (nonclinical) dissociation including daydreams or defense from strong stressors (de Ruiter et al., 2006). It is...
The Pluralist
October 1, 2011
Kelvin J. Booth
1 citation
Chimpanzee language studies have generated much heated controversy, as Roger Fouts can attest from first-hand experience.Perhaps this is because language is usually considered to be what truly distinguishes humans from apes.If chimps can indeed be taught the rudiments of language, then the difference between them and us is not as great as we might have thought.It is a matter of degree rather...
Journal of Personality
October 1, 2011
Angelina R Sutin, Gary D Stockdale
The present research reports 2 studies that examine the relation between nonpathological trait dissociation and the subjective affect, motivation, and phenomenology of self-defining memories. In Study 1 (N=293), participants retrieved and rated the emotional and motivational experience of a general and a positive and negative achievement-related memory. Study 2 (N=449) extended these ratings to...
October 1, 2011
J. Martín
Abstract The author deals with philosophical ethos in its practical function. After the First World War Husserl not only considers the structure but also the function of phenomenology. A meditation on this function, with regard to the history of philosophy, is his primal task in the Freiburg years. Thus the possibility of developing a rigorous phenomenology of practical reason becomes the basis...
British Journal of Aesthetics
October 1, 2011
Richard Shusterman
36 citations
Although William James wrote no philosophical treatise on aesthetics, he can be seen as an important source for pragmatist aesthetics. This paper reconstructs James's aesthetic views from his diverse writings that demonstrate a keen regard for the arts and for the central, pervasive importance of the aesthetic dimension of experience, a dimension he saw as closely linked to the rational and...
Philosophy and literature
October 1, 2011
James Duban
10 citations
"Oceanic Wonder":Arthur Koestler and Melville's Castaway James Duban This study proposes that "The Castaway" (Moby-Dick, chapter 93) helped shape Arthur Koestler's interpretation of "The Sermon" (Moby-Dick, chapter 9), which figures prominently in Insight and Outlook:An Inquiry into the Common Foundations of Science, Art and Social Ethics (1949). Koestler expanded the work into The Act of...
ergopraxis
October 1, 2011
Achtsamkeitstraining – Unterstützt die Selbstwahrnehmung Ergotherapiestudenten können durch ein Achtsamkeitstraining lernen, bewusster mit sich selbst und ihren Klienten umzugehen. Dies zeigt eine qualitative Studie von Dr. Graham Stew, Studiengangsleitung an der Fakultät für Gesundheitsberufe der University of Brighton, England. 20 Ergotherapiestudenten nahmen an einem vierwöchigen...
Philosophy Compass
October 1, 2011
Talia Mae Bettcher
Abstract Berkeley didn’t write very much about his ‘philosophy of mind’ and what he did write is rather perplexing and perhaps inconsistent. The most basic problem is that it just isn’t clear what a mind (or, more accurately, a spirit) is for Berkeley. Unsurprisingly, many interpretations tend to understand Berkeleian spirit in models provided by other philosophers – interpretations in which...
Phainomenon
October 1, 2011
Carlos Morujão
Abstract This paper addresses the meaning and importance of Alexandre Morujão’s work for the reception of husserlian phenomenology in the Portuguese university. It gives also an overall view of his philosophical activity and interests, either as a university professor and researcher, or as a translator of philosophical works. The paper tracks also some of philosophical influences, sometimes...
Phainomenon
October 1, 2011
José Maurício de Carvalho
Abstract The paper studies the contribution of Joaquim de Carvalho, a teacher at the University of Coimbra in the first half of last century, to the phenomenological movement in Portugal. Its importance is not restricted to the introduction he had prepared for the Portuguese translation of The Philosophy of rigor as science. He used the lessons of Edmund Husserl to build a critique of Hegelian...