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57State-dependent thinking: A comparison of waking and dreaming thoughtConsciousness and Cognition 14 (3): 429-438. 2005.Thinking is known to be state dependent but a systematic study of how thinking in dreams differs from thinking while awake has not been done. The study consisted of analyzing the dream reports of 26 subjects who, in addition to providing dream reports also provided answers to questions about their thinking within the dream. Our hypothesis was that thinking in dreams is not monolithic but has two distinct components, one that is similar to wake-state cognition, and another that is fundamentally d…Read more
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66Emotion and cognition: Feeling and character identification in dreamingConsciousness and Cognition 11 (1): 34-50. 2002.This study investigated the relationship between dream emotion and dream character identification. Thirty-five subjects provided 320 dream reports and answers to questions on characters that appeared in their dreams. We found that emotions are almost always evoked by our dream characters and that they are often used as a basis for identifying them. We found that affection and joy were commonly associated with known characters and were used to identify them even when these emotional attributes we…Read more
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7Sleep and dream suppression following a lateral medullary infarct: A first-person accountConsciousness and Cognition 11 (3): 377-390. 2002.Consciousness can be studied only if subjective experience is documented and quantified, yet first-person accounts of the effects of brain injury on conscious experience are as rare as they are potentially useful. This report documents the alterations in waking, sleeping, and dreaming caused by a lateral medullary infarct. Total insomnia and the initial suppression of dreaming was followed by the gradual recovery of both functions. A visual hallucinosis during waking that was associated with the…Read more
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335Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious statesIn Edward F. Pace-Schott, Mark Solms, Mark Blagrove & Stevan Harnad (eds.), Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations, Cambridge University Press. pp. 793-842. 2003.Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM mentation and between REM and waking mentation. Recent neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies also differentiate REM, NREM, and waking in features with phenomen…Read more
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32State dependence of character perception: Implausibility differences in dreaming and waking consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 10 (3): 57-68. 2003.Dreaming consciousness can be quite different from waking consciousness and this difference must depend upon the underlying neurobiology. Our approach is to infer the underlying brain basis for this difference by studying dream reports and comparing them with waking. In this study we investigated mentation during dreaming by asking subjects to provide us with dream reports and by asking them to create a dream log. In the dream log, the subjects recorded all implausibility, illogicality or inappr…Read more
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87The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of ConsciousnessMIT Press. 2002.In this book J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are...
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167The cognitive neuroscience of sleep: Neuronal systems, consciousness and learningNature Reviews Neuroscience 3 679-93. 2002.
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19The politics of anti-westernism in asia: Visions of world order in pan-islamic and pan-asian thought - by Cemil AydinEthics and International Affairs 22 (3): 333-335. 2008.No Abstract
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Discovering the Oriental WestIn Sandra G. Harding (ed.), The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Duke University Press. 2011.
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18The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought, Cemil Aydin (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 320 pp., $32.50 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 22 (3): 333-335. 2008.
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83This paper presents a challenge to Eurocentric world history on the grounds that it reifies and exaggerates the role of the West in the creation of modernity, while simultaneously ignoring India's seminal contributions. The groundwork is prepared in the first three sections, which refute the parochial biases of Eurocentrism by revealing India's impressive early developmental record and its place near the center of a nascent global economy. The paper culminates in an approach that places the "dia…Read more
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41The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010Cambridge University Press. 2012.John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of inter-state relations, international theory instead provides provincial analyses that celebrate and defend Western civilization as the subject of, and ideal normative referent in, world politics. Hobson also provides a sympathetic critique of Edward Said's conceptions of Eurocentrism and Orientalism, reveali…Read more