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No need for mineness: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and mental state types
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DPD) is a psychopathological condition in which subjects suffer from a massive alienation from themselves...
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Self-Consciousness: Conclusion
This first part of the book analysed the notion of self-consciousness and presented some major challenges in the current debate. Reflective theories...
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Where’s the Body?: Victimhood as the Wrongmaker in Abortion
Much of the work in moral philosophy and the political debate on abortion has focused on when in human development personhood begins. In this...
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Exposed: On Shame and Nakedness
This article develops a new phenomenological account of the shame people typically tend to feel when seen naked by others. Although shame at...
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How to Know That You’re Not a Zombie
I am aware of the tree and its leaves, but am I aware of my awareness of these things? When I try to introspect my awareness, I just find myself...
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Shame and Self-Consciousness in Plato’s Symposium: Reversals of Meaning of a Social Emotion
This essay is broadly conceived as a study of how the emotional experience of shame can play an important role in the construction of personal...
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Theories of Consciousness and the Problem of Evil in the History of Ideas
In this book, Ben Lazare Mijuskovic uses both an interdisciplinary and History of Ideas approach to discuss four forms of intertwined theories of...
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Schizophrenic Thought Insertion and Self-Experience
In contemporary philosophy of mind and psychiatry, schizophrenic thought insertion is often used as a validating or invalidating counterexample in...
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C3 Consciousness and the Defamiliarization of the God-Man
This chapter reviews the major thinkers that influenced Percy’s thoughts on C3 consciousness. I begin by defining C3 consciousness, which is...
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Being “LaMDA” and the Person of the Self in AI
The emergence of self in an artificial entity is a topic that is greeted with disbelief, fear, and finally dismissal of the topic itself as a...
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Two Accounts of Deity: Classical Theism versus Theistic Personalism
In his recent paper, Page ( International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 85 , 297–317,
2019 ) raised the question of what, if anything, is it that... -
Narcissism, Loneliness, and the Problem of Evil
This chapter welds and fuses together, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the five positive theories of consciousness introduced throughout the...
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Russellian Physicalists get our phenomenal concepts wrong
Russellian physicalism is becoming increasingly popular because it promises to deliver what everybody wants, realism and physicalism about...
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Reflections on Perspectives of Transhumanism, Buddhist Transhumanism, and Buddhist Modernism on the Self
A claim made by Buddhist or Buddhism-affine scholars such as Michael LaTorra and James Hughes is that transhumanism, neuroscience, and the teachings...
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Conscious Self-Evidencing
Self-evidencing describes the purported predictive processing of all self-organising systems, whether conscious or not. Self-evidencing in itself is...
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“Kannō dōkō and kō'ō in Japanese Philosophy: A Blueprint for a Second Person Approach”
Most mainstream theories of selfhood and personhood in the European and North-American tradition, regardless of whether they are naturalistic or...
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Nothing
This chapter argues that the return of the question of nothing and negativity in late modernity was in response less to nihilism or existentialism...
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Reasons and Conscious Persons
What justifies holding the person that we are today morally responsible for something we did a year ago? And why are we justified in showing...
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Human Rationality, Consciousness, and Cosmology
In this final chapter, I return to where I began in Chap. 2, with the metaphysical continuity of mind and life, and show how human rationality,...
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Towards a dialethic theory of time-consciousness
There is an eminent tradition of thought that sees in the phenomenon of time something contradictory. This tradition has been recently revived by...
