Philosophy of mind, consciousness Research Papers

Az ember szubjektív tudatossága enigmatikus probléma a modern tudomány számára. Éppen ezért az analitikus filozófia, a kognitív tudomány, és ezen belül is az idegtudomány hosszú ideig figyelmen kívül hagyta ezt a kérdéskört, annak... more

[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book intro in downloadable .pdf] "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck... more

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck Scientific research confirms what people have always known: answers, ideas, and inspiration do come to us in dreams. Harvard psychologist and world-renowned dream specialist Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., offers this rich collection of examples of how the world's most creative practitioners in art, music, film, science, literature and other fields have used the revelations of their dream life to inform their work. Dr. Barrett offers insights showing us how to encourage lucid, meaningful dreaming, and how to apply the meanings of our dreams to solving problems--from the everyday to the extraordinary. This is the stuff dreams are made of. In the visual arts, Jasper Johns couldn't find his unique artistic vision until he dreamed it in the form of a large American flag. Salvador Dali and his colleagues built the startling new genre of surrealism out of dreams. Kubla Kahn dreamed the design for his stately pleasure dome; thousands of years later, Lucy Davis, chief architect at a major firm, continues the tradition of dreaming designs into life in her extraordinary buildings. Film is a fertile avenue for dreams: "Twice I have transferred dreams to film exactly as I had dreamed them," confides director Ingmar Bergman, as have Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Altman, and John Sayles. From Mary Shelley's terrible nightmare, which became Frankenstein, to Stephen King's haunting dream as a little boy, which led to his first bestseller, countless writers have consulted the Committee. Musicians from Beethoven to Billy Joel and Paul McCartney have whistled the Committee's tunes. In science, physiologist Otto Loewi dreamed the medical experiment that earned him the Nobel Prize. In sports, Marion Jones dreamed she'd broken a world record, then brought the dream to life. Gandhi translated his dream of resistance into a movement that changed the world. Since Freud, we take it for granted that our dreams reflect our past. In The Committee of Sleep, Barrett reveals how dreams can also tell us about our future potential--and how to reach it.

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Creative Writing, Neuroscience, Psychology, Applied Psychology

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Military History, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Psychology

ProtoSociology occupies an important position in the European intellectual scene, bridging philosophy, economics, sociology and related disciplines. Its volumes on rationality bring together concerns in all these topics, and present an... more

In this article, I present the concept of ‘birthing consciousness,’ a psycho-physical altered state of women that can occur during natural and undisturbed birth. I demonstrate that this altered state of consciousness (ASC) has... more

Locke endorses a distinction between passive reflection and voluntary attentive reflection, which he occasionally labels contemplation. Failure to recognize this distinction properly has had an effect on interpretations of Locke’s theory... more

Mind uploading speculation and debate often concludes that a procedure described as gradual in-place replacement preserves personal identity while a procedure described as destructive scan-and-copy produces some other identity in the... more

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- by Keith Wiley and +1
  Randal Koene
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  Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

In this paper I discuss and try to show that Process Philosophy is the superior metaphysical framework as opposed to the traditional substance metaphysics. I introduce substance metaphysics and some of its limitations with special focus... more

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- by Ravi Kapoor
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  Buddhism, Psychology, Metaphysics, Process Philosophy

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Creative Writing, Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Social Theory

Contrary to widespread belief, and many people's intuitions, "philosophical zombies" are not a genuine conceptual possibility. The notion contains a inherent contradiction.

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Creative Writing, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

The following translation is from Karl Rosenkranz's Hegel's Life (1844). He is providing an account of the Phenomenology understood as a philosophical work of cognitive metaphysics and intellectual history. Rosenkranz contends that both... more

Additional required and recommended readings are posted on Blackboard.

A collection of essays, 1987-2007.

We do not know how to think with or about these notions and others such as reality, perception, space, time, etc… ABSTRACT In the following I will deal with the umbrella notions of mind, consciousness and body. The contents is relevant,... more

The article is a critical review of two methodological approaches presented in David Chalmers’ book Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. The first one is a problem of possible applications of quantum mechanics in the search... more

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- by Max B . Cooper
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  Buddhism, Philosophy of Mind, Buddhist Philosophy, Advaita Vedanta

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-5/ Thomas Metzinger’s work is at the forefront of interdisciplinary research between the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience. Marrying an encyclopedic grasp of the philosophical... more

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- by Damian Veal
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  Philosophy of Mind, Metaphilosophy, Consciousness, The Self

.....the double bind as constituting an entirely new, non-material, principle of evolution, major conceptual revisions may need to be made in our general understanding of evolution as contained within the “modern evolutionary... more

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Philology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of Dzogchen. Dzogchen is an ancient form of Tibetan mystic humanism. Dzogchen makes the essential distinction... more

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- by rudolph bauer
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  Critical Theory, Religion, Gnosticism, Buddhism

El problema de la conciencia en la filosofía de la mente y las ciencias cognitivas.

This paper aims to establish some of the taxonomical groundwork required for developing a robust philosophy of perception on the basis of the Thomistic doctrine of the cogitative power (vis cogitativa). The formal object of the cogitative... more

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- by Daniel D. De Haan
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  Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Medieval Philosophy, Perception

In order to find a convincing position in the ‘free will’ debate, two sorts of determinism are distinguished. The merits of encompassing determinism, which is determinism as it is usually understood, and individual determinism, which... more

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- by Jasper Doomen
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  Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology

The scientific study of consciousness is constantly making new discoveries, but one particular aspect of consciousness remains problematic to explain. This is the fact that conscious experiences present themselves to us in a first-person... more

"Franz G. Riffert & Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts. Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, Whitehead... more

"Franz G. Riffert & Michel Weber (eds.), Searching for New Contrasts. Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, Whitehead Psychology Nexus Studies I, 2003. (444 p. ; ISBN 3-631-39089-0 ; 68,5 €)
Whitehead claimed that “to sustain a civilization with the intensity of its first ardour requires more than learning. Adventure is essential, namely, the search for new perfections” (Adventures of Ideas, 258). Since humility is—more than ever—urgently needed in scholarship, we have chosen to qualify our conceptual adventure as a search for new contrasts, thus invoking an essential Whiteheadian concept. As the reader will have already understood, contrast does not mean here contention, or strife, or even comparison between fields that are essentially foreign to each other; it means emphasizing the complementariness of differences and the promotion of synergies.
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Foreword, Franz G. Riffert and Michel Weber
List of Contributors
Introduction. Reconnecting Science and Metaphysics: General Considerations and Pioneer Works on Process-Psychology, Franz G. Riffert and John B. Cobb, Jr.
Part I. Neurophysiology
Value in Mind and Nature, Jason W. Brown
Consciousness, Whitehead and Quantum Computation in the Brain: Panprotopsychism Meets the Physics of Fundamental Space-Time Geometry, Stuart Hameroff
Consciousness: The Brain’s Private Psychological Field, Marcel Kinsbourne
The Common Origin of Perception and Action: A Process Perspective, Avraham Schweiger
Part II. Psychology
Whitehead's Faculty-Psychology, Jean-Claude Dumoncel
Psychology Moves Towards Whitehead, John Pickering
On Scientific Confirmation of Causal Efficacy, Franz G. Riffert
What is Called “Feeling”?—Lure and Certainty in Whitehead and Descartes, Pierre Rodrigo
The One and the Many. Reflections on Whitehead’s notion of Personal Identity, Luca Vanzago
Part III. Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy in Process, John B. Cobb, Jr.
The Promise of Process Psychology, David E. Roy
The Universality of Impermanence, C. R. F. Sherlock
The Art of Epochal Change, Michel Weber
Part IV. Philosophy of Mind
A Psychology for the Ecosystem, Liliana Albertazzi
Mind as Process, Mark H. Bickhard
Direct Realism in Perception and Memory, Peter Farleigh
Untangling “Self,” “Person,” and “I”, David Galin
Whitehead and the Revival (?) of Panpsychism, William Seager
Psychology and Physics Reconciled: Whitehead’s Vision of Metaphysics, Anderson Weekes
Critical Apparatus
General Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Detailed Table of Contents

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- by Avraham Schweiger and +4
  Michel Weber
  John Cobb
  Stuart Hameroff
  Marcel Kinsbourne
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  Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology, Psychology

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO ESTABLISH HOW AND WHEN THE SEED SPARK OF ALL HUMAN’S CONSCIOUSNESS BEGAN. DRILLING DOWN INTO EDGAR CAYCE’S STATEMENT THAT THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ALL HUMANS STARTED AT THE SAME TIME,

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- by MIKE EMERY
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  History, Sociology, Social Psychology, Emotion

Illusionism about phenomenal consciousness is the thesis that phenomenal consciousness does not exist, even though it seems to exist. This thesis is widely judged to be uniquely counterintuitive: the idea that consciousness is an illusion... more

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- by François Kammerer
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  Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, Physicalism, Qualia

Many scientists have come to believe that any true unification theory in physics must include a concept of consciousness as well as a model for the mind that interprets the external physical/material world. And, that number is growing.... more

En la filosofía de las ciencias cognitivas hay diversas teorías que afirman que existe una estrecha relación entre conciencia y atención. En este capítulo evaluaremos qué tipo de relaciones son las que normalmente se establecen y... more

The aim of the paper is to present the main conceptions in the contemporary philosophy of mental (mind). The debate is narrated in two ways: The first approach concerns the ontology of mental, with the questions such as: What is the... more

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- by Gerhard Preyer
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  Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind

This theoretical inquiry offers a critique of epistemologies of the body that originate in philosophy and in medicine as theorized and practiced in the West. With the support of Jonas’ biophilosophy of life, Levin’s invocation of the... more

This article builds on C. S. Peirce’s suggestive blueprint for an inclusive outlook that grants reality to his three categories. Moving away from the usual focus on (contentious) cosmological forces, I use a modal principle to partition... more

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- by Marc Champagne
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  Information Systems, Semiotics, Christianity, Mythology And Folklore

A concise overview of Yogācāra views of consciousness, especially those expressed by Vasubandhu and Xuanzang, including how their thought would deal with the 'hard problem.' Appeared in Consciousness and the great philosophers: what would... more

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- by Dan Lusthaus
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  Buddhism, Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Metaphysics of Consciousness

Dans un article resté célèbre, M. Henry a formalisé les « Quatre principes de la phénoménologie », définissant l’objet et la méthode de cette école de pensée . Nous trouvons dans ces principes un présupposé commun, selon lequel la... more

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- by Vincent Citot
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  Phenomenology, Henri Bergson, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion

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- by Deirdre Barrett
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  Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

In the standard thought experiments, dualism strikes many philosophers as true, including many non-dualists. This ‘striking’ generates prima facie justification: in the absence of defeaters, we ought to believe that things are as they... more

There seems to be a "what it is like" to the experience of the flow of time in any conscious activity of ours. In this paper, I argue that the feeling that time passes should be understood as a phenomenal modifier of our mental life, in... more

The Twin Earth scenario assumes reference to natural kinds is unique and never changes (rigid designation), and that we can give justice to the intuition of reference-permanence and things having a deep structure only by pushing meaning... more

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- by Narve Strand
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  Information Systems, History, European History, Intellectual History

This is the text of a talk I gave to the Marion Institute on November 6, 2015. It concerns two modes of consciousness or "ways of knowing," one of which has been "rejected" for the last few centuries. Our modern "scientific" way of... more

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- by Gary Lachman
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- 6
  History of Ideas, Phenomenology, Mysticism, Consciousness

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- by Barry Dainton
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- 6
  Consciousness, Panpsychism, Emergence, Philosophy of mind, consciousness

I originally entitled this paper ‘Why are there no uncontroversial examples of philosophical nonsense?’, but since this seemed apt to provoke rather superficial responses, I decided to re-title it. In it I ponder the fact that, not only... more

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- by ian dearden
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  Psychoanalysis, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy Of Language

W artykule koncentruję się na problemie świadomości fenomenalnej, który – w moim przekonaniu – stanowi rdzeń problemu umysł-ciało i tzw. „luki eksplanacyjnej”. Rozpoczyna się on krótką prezentacją debaty między redukcjonizmem i... more

Il seguente articolo è il tentativo di una dissertazione riguardante il fisicalismo non riduttivo. Per la trattazione delle sue problematiche, soprattutto quella dell'emergentismo, ha come punto di riferimento l'articolo di Tim Crane “The... more

Like many of the most interesting questions, the question of whether consciousness is embodied can mean so many different things that it is genuinely difficult to know where to start. And when I don't know where to start I generally like... more

From the discussion of monism versus dualism in cognitive studies, to the discussion of rationalist metaphysics in its three classical versions, Descartes' Meditationes, Spinoza's Ethica, and Leibniz' Monodology, and their importance to... more

In this essay, we argue that there exist obvious parallels between questions that inform philosophy of chemistry and the so-called hard problem of consciousness in philosophy of mind. These include questions regarding the emergence of... more

In this essay, we argue that there exist obvious parallels between questions that inform philosophy of chemistry and the so-called hard problem of consciousness in philosophy of mind. These include questions regarding the emergence of higher-level phenomena from lower-level physical states, the reduction of higher-level phenomena to lower-level physical states, and 'downward causation'. We, therefore, propose that the 'hard problem' of consciousness should be approached in a manner similar to that used to address parallel problems in philosophy of chemistry. Thus, our contribution begins by scrutinizing the ways chemists and quantum chemists think about and use different levels of organization and chemical relations and relata and then investigates the problem of 'downward causation' as it relates to the question of emergence. We demonstrate that the science of the transformation of 'substances', namely chemistry, enables us to go beyond substantialism and to develop, instead, a non-substantialist account of levels of reality. Similarly, the 'hard problem' of consciousness will require that we transcend traditional emergentism and its substantialist conception of mind. As with chemical phenomena, mental phenomena must be examined in terms of the relationality of wholes and parts, and this will require the development of a mereology that explains how parts and wholes may co-define each other. Like the non-classical and non-transitive mereology that has been proposed for quantum chemistry, an extended mereology for philosophy of mind must be one that entangles the whole, its parts, and the environment, thus rendering 'downward causation' into a relational concept. This proposal is neither a reductionist analysis that only needs the parts to define the whole, nor a merely holistic description within which the whole is necessary to define the parts. Rather, we propose that the parts, the whole, and the environment co-define each other so that our understanding of parts, wholes, and environment as independent concepts must itself be altered.

In spite of its popularity, mediumship is at odds with modern science. Since science is an extremely important part of our culture, mediumship will never be completely accepted until a scientific theory can explain how consciousness... more

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