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36The Case Against Organoid ConsciousnessNeuroethics 17 (1): 1-15. 2024.Neural organoids are laboratory-generated entities that replicate certain structural and functional features of the human brain. Most neural organoids are disembodied—completely decoupled from sensory input and motor output. As such, questions about their potential capacity for consciousness are exceptionally difficult to answer. While not disputing the need for caution regarding certain neural organoid types, this paper appeals to two broad constraints on any adequate theory of consciousness—th…Read more
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4One of the challenges of studying religious experiences is that believers may feel that their first-person accounts are potentially profaned when subjected to psychological or anthropological analy...
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8Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundariesConsciousness and Cognition 119 (C): 103655. 2024.
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Fredric Jameson and the rise of world literature : from world systems theory to uneven and combined developmentIn James Christie & Nesrin Degirmencioglu (eds.), Cultures of uneven and combined development: from international relations to world literature, Brill. 2019.
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1Oxiforms: Unique cysteine residue‐ and chemotype‐specified chemical combinations can produce functionally‐distinct proteoformsBioessays 45 (7): 2200248. 2023.A single protein molecule with one or more cysteine residues can occupy a plurality of unique residue and oxidation‐chemotype specified proteoforms that I term oxiforms. In binary reduced or oxidised terms, one molecule with three cysteines will adopt one of eight unique oxiforms. Residue‐defined sulfur chemistry endows specific oxiforms with distinct functionally‐relevant biophysical properties (e.g., steric effects). Their emergent complexity means a functionally‐relevant effect may only manif…Read more
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4Experience and Judgment (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1973.In _Experience and Judgment, _Husserl explores the problems of contemporary philosophy of language and the constitution of logical forms. He argues that, even at its most abstract, logic demands an underlying theory of experience. Husserl sketches out a genealogy of logic in three parts: Part I examines prepredicative experience, Part II the structure of predicative thought as such, and Part III the origin of general conceptual thought. This volume provides an articulate restatement of many of t…Read more
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Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human MindPalala Press. 2016.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of A…Read more
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5From Soul to Self (edited book)Routledge. 1999._From Soul to Self_ takes the reader on a fascinating journey through philosophy, theology, religious studies, and physiological sciences. Each of the essays, drawn from a number of different fields, focuses on the idea of the soul and of our sense of ourselves. A stellar line-up of authors explore the relationship between a variety of ideas that have arisen in philosophy, religion and science, each idea seeking to explain why we think that we as individuals are somehow distinct and unique. Cont…Read more
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6The Public Involvement ManualUpa. 1981.To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com
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6Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity (edited book)Lexington Books. 2011.Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity is an edited collection of sixteen essays on the idea of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Reconsidering the eighteenth-century realist novel, twentieth-century modernism, and underappreciated topics on individualism and literature, this volume provocatively revises and enriches our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself
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6Religion, Secularization and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill (edited book)Routledge. 1990.The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill. During this period, Britain experienced the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in th…Read more
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5Causality as an Overarching Principle in PhysicsPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 1-11. 1986.In the recent philosophy of science literature, several authors have stressed the many-faceted and evolving nature of the scientific enterprise. Dudley Shapere (1984, pp. xiii-xv) characterizes a central weakness of the logical empirical program as its focus on the formal logical structure of scientific theories to the exclusion of the process by which these theories were constructed, thus ignoring the possibility of fundamental changes in the nature of science itself. He has stressed the import…Read more
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2Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian LegendSUNY Press. 1994.This book focuses on how and why various cultures have appropriated the story of King Arthur. It is about re-vision, how cultures alter inherited texts and are, in turn, changed by them, and it deals with the ways in which various cultures have empowered the Arthurian legend so that power might be derived from it. The authors suggest that the vitality of the Arthurian legend resides in its ability to be transformed and to transform, in its potential for appropriation and use. Culture and the Kin…Read more
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1Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and ReligionInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (3): 176-178. 1985.
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18Bohmian mechanics and quantum theory: an appraisalSpringer. 1996.We are often told that quantum phenomena demand radical revisions of our scientific world view and that no physical theory describing well defined objects, such as particles described by their positions, evolving in a well defined way, let alone deterministically, can account for such phenomena. The great majority of physicists continue to subscribe to this view, despite the fact that just such a deterministic theory, accounting for all of the phe nomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, was…Read more
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5Skepticism, Justification, and ExplanationD. Reidel. 1980.This book is a manuscript that was virtually complete when James W. Cornman died. Most of the chapters were in final form, and all but the last had been revised by the author. The last chapter was in handwritten form, and the concluding remarks were not finished. Swain took charge of the proofreading and John L. Thomas compiled the indices with the assistance of Lehrer. It is our opinion that this manuscript, like the other books Cornman published, is one of exceptional scholarly and philo sophi…Read more
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13The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra (review)Isis 87 387-388. 1996.
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53Dynamical embodiments of computation in cognitive processesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (5): 635-635. 1998.Dynamics is not enough for cognition, nor it is a substitute for information-processing aspects of brain behavior. Moreover, dynamics and computation are not at odds, but are quite compatible. They can be synthesized so that any dynamical system can be analyzed in terms of its intrinsic computational components.
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104Cities and the Place of PhilosophyPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 6 (3-4): 43-49. 1999.This essay takes seriously Heidegger’s claim that a given place influences what gets built in it, which both expresses and creates how we dwell in that place. This in turn is a guiding metaphor for how we think about ourselves as dwellers, which for Heidegger is the true nature of philosophy. I argue that philosophy itself is most fully supported in an urban, city environment.
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92The Theologian's Doubts: Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazali (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (1): 19-39. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Theologian's Doubts:Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of GhazālīLeor HaleviIn the history of skeptical thought, which normally leaps from the Pyrrhonists to the rediscovery of Sextus Empiricus in the sixteenth century, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) figures as a medieval curiosity. Skeptical enough to merit passing acknowledgment, he has proven too baffling to be treated fully alongside pagan, atheist, or mate…Read more
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7Off the GridIn Fritz Allhoff & Nathan Kowalsky (eds.), Hunting Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Hunting: A Rite of American Secular Religion Rights and the Burden of Ownership Off the Grid: Civilization's Joyous Discontent Big Green: The New Nonsense of the Eco‐Gentry Notes.
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5The Literary Microcosm: Theories of Interpretation of the Later NeoplatonistsAmerican Journal of Philology 101 (3): 371. 1980.
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