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14Living Ways of Sense MakingIn Oliver Müller & Thiemo Breyer (eds.), Funktionen des Lebendigen, De Gruyter. pp. 25-42. 2016.
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12Theories of embodied cognition hypothesize interdependencies between psychological well-being and physical posture. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of objectively measuring posture, and to explore the relationship between posture and affect and other patient centered outcomes in breast cancer survivors with persistent postsurgical pain over a 12-week course of therapeutic Qigong mind-body training. Twenty-one BCS with PPSP attended group Qigong training. Clinical outcomes…Read more
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10Filling-In: Visual Science and the Philosophy of PerceptionIn Denis Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution, Springer. pp. 145--161. 1999.
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9Emotion Experience (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2005.Emotion experience has failed to date to gain a central place in the study of consciousness. This special issue of the _Journal of Consciousness Studies_ presents the most recent views on the matter, with discussions of several aspects of emotion experience. Contributors from different disciplines address links between feelings, brain, body and world. What happens in the brain and in the body when we have feelings? How do feelings relate to our understanding of the world? The contributors also a…Read more
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9Sensomotorische Subjektivität und die enaktive Annäherung an ErfahrungIn Wolfgang Welsch, Christian Tewes & Klaus Vieweg (eds.), Natur und Geist: über ihre evolutionäre Verhältnisbestimmung, Akademie Verlag. pp. 125. 2011.
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7Almang, J.(2007). Intentionality and intersubjectivity. Goteborg, Sweden: Gote-borg Universitet, 210 pp., ISBN 978-91-7346-583-0. Grahek, N.(2007). Feeling pain and being in pain . Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 181 pp., ISBN 0-262-07283-0, $30.00 (cloth). Grossman, N.(2003). Healing the mind: The philosophy of Spinoza adapted for (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 38 (1): 317. 2007.
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7A Dream Inside a Locked RoomIn Tom Sparrow & Jacob Graham (eds.), True Detective and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017.In the third episode of season one of True Detective, "The Locked Room", detective Rust Cohle explains the life. This predicament makes him not just a "pessimist" also a "nihilist"‐someone who denies that life has meaning. The idea that life might be a dream is one of humanity's oldest and most enduring philosophical thoughts. The oldest versions of these ideas come from Indian philosophy. In Western philosophy, the thought that life could be a dream is linked not so much to reflections on life,…Read more
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2Self-No-Self? Memory and Reflexive AwarenessIn Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson & Dan Zahavi (eds.), Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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2Neural correlates of consciousness and the matching-content doctrineJournal of Consciousness Studies. forthcoming.
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2Philosophical theories of consciousness: Asian perspectivesIn Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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2Consciousness: An introductionIn Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--3. 2007.
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1Hypnosis and Meditation: a neurophenomenological comparisonIn Amir Raz & Michael Lifshitz (eds.), Hypnosis and Meditation: Towards an Integrative Science of Conscious Planes. pp. 79-106. 2017.A necessary first step in collaboration between hypnosis research and meditation research is clarification of key concepts. The authors propose that such clarification is best advanced by neurophenomenological investigations that integrate neuroscience methods with phenomenological models based on first-person reports of hypnotic versus meditative experiences. Focusing on absorption, the authors argue that previous treatments of hypnosis and meditation as equivalent are incorrect, but that they…Read more
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The Mind-Body-Body ProblemAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 23-42. 2012.Robert Hanna and Evan Thompson offer a solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem. The solution, in a nutshell, is that the living and lived body is metaphysically and conceptually basic, in the sense that one’s consciousness, on the one hand, and one’s corporeal being, on the other, are nothing but dual aspects of one’s lived body. One’s living and lived body can be equated with one’s being as an animal; therefore, this solution to the Mind-Body-Body Problem amounts to an “animalist” version of the…Read more
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IntroductionIn Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson & Dan Zahavi (eds.), Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Précis of Mind in LifeJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (5-6): 10-22. 2011.The theme of this book is the deep continuity of life and mind. Where there is life there is mind, and mind in its most articulated forms belongs to life. Life and mind share a core set of formal or organizational properties, and the formal or organizational properties distinctive of mind are an enriched version of those fundamental to life. I take a twofold approach to these ideas in Mind in Life. On the one hand, I try to show that to be a living organism is physically to realize or instantiat…Read more
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Neural synchrony and the unity of mind: A neurophenomenological perspectiveIn Axel Cleeremans (ed.), The Unity of Consciousness, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness?Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 3-28. 2004.In the past decade, the notion of a neural correlate of consciousness has become a focal point for scientific research on consciousness. A growing number of investigators believe that the first step toward a science of consciousness is to discover the neural correlates of consciousness. Indeed, Francis Crick has gone so far as to proclaim that ‘we need to discover the neural correlates of consciousness. For this task the primate visual system seems especially attractive. No longer need one spend…Read more
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Living Ways of Sense MakingAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 38-58. 2012.Evan Thompson’s paper has four parts. First, he says more about what he means when he asks, “what is living?” Second, he presents his way of answering this question, which is that living is sense-making in precarious conditions. Third, he responds to Welton’s considerations about what he calls the “affective entrainment” of the living being by the environment. Finally, he addresses Protevi’s remarks about panpsychism.
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Colour Vision and the Comparative Argument, a Case Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of PerceptionDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1990.In this thesis, I show how decisions about the ontology of colour depend upon the empirical and conceptual relations among levels of explanation for vision. In Chapter 1, I show how the "received" Lockean view of colour is linked to Newton's theory of light and colour. In Chapter 2, I review extensively recent biological, psychophysical, and computational models of colour vision, and I discuss their relations. I also show how the ontological status of colour is linked to these levels of explanat…Read more
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Own-body perceptionIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Affective neuroscience of self-generated thoughtAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1426 (1): 25-51. 2018.Despite increasing scientific interest in self-generated thought-mental content largely independent of the immediate environment-there has yet to be any comprehensive synthesis of the subjective experience and neural correlates of affect in these forms of thinking. Here, we aim to develop an integrated affective neuroscience encompassing many forms of self-generated thought-normal and pathological, moderate and excessive, in waking and in sleep. In synthesizing existing literature on this topic,…Read more
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Empathy and consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 8 (5-7): 1-32. 2001.This article makes five main points. Individual human consciousness is formed in the dynamic interrelation of self and other, and therefore is inherently intersubjective. The concrete encounter of self and other fundamentally involves empathy, understood as a unique and irreducible kind of intentionality. Empathy is the precondition of the science of consciousness. Human empathy is inherently developmental: open to it are pathways to non-egocentric or self-transcendent modes of intersubjectivity…Read more
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