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Can the Integrated Information Theory Explain Consciousness from Consciousness Itself?
In consciousness science, theories often differ not only in the account of consciousness they arrive at, but also with respect to how they understand...
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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the...
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The Formal Layer of {Brain and Mind} and Emerging Consciousness in Physical Systems
We consider consciousness attributed to systems in space-time which can be purely physical without biological background and focus on the...
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Remainders of the Self: Consciousness as a Problem for Neuroethics
NeuroscienceConsciousness has made great progress in recent years in detecting mental processes using electrophysiological and imaging techniques....
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The relationship between free will and consciousness
Reflection on the relationship between free will and consciousness has mainly revolved around Libet-style experiments, for example by criticizing the...
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On needing time to think: consciousness, temporality, and self-expression
I examine an argument proposed by Tye and Wright (
2011 ), inspired by Geach (1957 ), which holds that a correct understanding of how conceptual thought... -
Kant’s Metaphysics of the Self: The Self as a “Clear” Representation
This paper seeks to show how Kant’s epistemological conception of the transcendental faculties of cognition relates to his ontological conception of...
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Self, Consciousness and Non-dualism
In this chapter, an attempt is made to study consciousness from a non-dualist point of view. Non-dualismDualism hasNon-Dualism been an established...
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An Exposition of the Notion Self and Identity in the Philosophy of Rāmānuja: A Critical Study
The proposed study endeavors to delve into the philosophical concepts of self and identity as elucidated by the eminent Indian philosopher...
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The Philosophical Roots of Loneliness and Intimacy Political Narcissism and the Problem of Evil
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and...
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First-Person Perspective in Experience: Perspectival De Se Representation as an Explanation of the Delimitation Problem
In develo** a theory of consciousness, one of the main problems has to do with determining what distinguishes conscious states from non-conscious...
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The Notion of Awareness of Self-awareness and the Problem of Infinite Regress in the Cheng Weishi Lun
This essay aims to show that the fourfold division theory of consciousness in the Cheng Weishi Lun 成唯識論 (* Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra ) is the third...
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Difference and presence: Derrida and Husserl’s phenomenology of language, time, history, and scientific rationality
This article seeks to reconstruct and critically extend Jacques Derrida’s critique of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. Derrida’s...
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The Pre-reflective Dimension of Self-Awareness and the Bipolar Structure of Existence: Merleau-Ponty’s Way from Body Schema to Sexual Schema
This paper presents Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the bipolar structure of human existence as the movement of transcendence on the basis of...
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Selfless Memories
Many authors claim that being conscious constitutively involves being self-conscious, or conscious of oneself . This claim appears to be threatened by...
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Improvisation and Consciousness: Some Recent Links
This presentation looks at links between improvisation and consciousness with reference to theatre and performance as reflected in recent work. It...
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Existential selfhood in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
This paper provides an interpretation of the existential conception of selfhood that follows from Merleau-Ponty’s account of perception. On this...
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Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy
In this article, our focus is on the topic of engagement and possibility of empathy with future generations. We acknowledge that empathy for future...
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On Heidegger’s conception of emotion, which is to say, Husserl’s conception of time: an analysis of Befindlichkeit and temporality
Ostensibly, Heidegger’s notion of Befindlichkeit isn’t one of the really enigmatic concepts in his oeuvre —for everyone knows that on Heidegger’s...
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Embodied movement consciousness
In two recent papers, I introduced the idea of embodied Rilkean movement knowledge and perception into the current philosophical debate on sports...