Contents:
- Jan 27, 2023: Receives 500K Euros Grant to Expand Open Access publishing platform for journals
- Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
- Vol. 1 No. I (March 24, 2020) – Radical Disruptions of Self-Consciousness
- Radical disruptions of self-consciousness: Editorial introduction
- Dissolving the self: Active inference, psychedelics, and ego-dissolution
- Look who’s talking! Varieties of ego-dissolution without paradox
- Cotard syndrome, self-awareness, and I-concepts
- Being for no-one: Psychedelic experience and minimal subjectivity
- Attenuating oneself: An active inference perspective on “selfless” experiences
- Minimal phenomenal experience: Meditation, tonic alertness, and the phenomenology of “pure” consciousness
- The varieties of selflessness
- Perspectival self-consciousness and ego-dissolution: An analysis of (some) altered states of consciousness
- Breaking the self: Radical disruptions of self-consciousness and impossible conscious experiences
- Vol 1 No. II (December 30, 2020) – Neuroreductionism Fest
- A double anniversary for the neural correlates of consciousness: Editorial introduction
- Dendritic integration theory: A thalamo-cortical theory of state and content of consciousness
- Predictive processing as a systematic basis for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness
- Explanation in the science of consciousness: From the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) to the difference makers of consciousness (DMCs)
- Generality and content-specificity in the study of the neural correlates of perceptual consciousness
- Distinguishing absence of awareness from awareness of absence
- What is a global state of consciousness?
- On the dangers of conflating strong and weak versions of a theory of consciousness
- Vol. 2 (September 22, 2021) – Neural Correlates of Consciousness
- Exploring the range of reported dream lucidity
- Seeing the forest for the trees: Scene perception and the admissible contents of perceptual Experience
- Progress and paradigms in the search for the neural correlates of consciousness: Editorial introduction to the special issue “The neural correlates of consciousness”
- The search for the neural correlate of consciousness: Progress and challenges
- Finding the neural correlates of consciousness will not solve all our problems
- Brain structural complexity and consciousness
- A structural constraint on neural correlates of consciousness
- You can’t always get what you want: Predictive processing and consciousness
- The neural correlates of consciousness under the free energy principle: From computational correlates to computational explanation
- NCC research and the problem of consciousness
- Vol. 3 (January 25, 2022) – Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
- Vicarious attention, degrees of enhancement, and the contents of consciousness
- Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle
- In search of lost time: Integrated information theory needs constraints from temporal phenomenology
- Reviving the naïve realist approach to memory
- Extended mind-wandering
- The replication crisis and philosophy
- Colour variation without objective colour
- Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
- Introduction: Psychedelic Science Needs Philosophy
- Naturalistic Entheogenics: Précis of Philosophy of Psychedelics
- The Agency-First Epistemology of Psychedelics
- Belief Now, True Belief Later: The Epistemic Advantage of Self-Related Insights in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
- Serotonin, Predictive Processing and Psychedelics
- Psychedelics Favour Understanding Rather Than Knowledge
- Positive Affect and Letheby’s Naturalization of Psychedelic Therapy
- Through the Psychedelic Looking-Glass: The Importance of Phenomenal Transparency in Psychedelic Transformation
- How Level is the ‘Cognitive Playing Field’? Context Shapes Alterations in Self-Conception During the Psychedelic Experience
- Self and Knowledge in Psychedelic Therapy: Reply to Commentaries on Philosophy of Psychedelics
- Vol. 4 (September 1972)
- Wheels of Confusion
- Tomorrow’s Dream
- Changes
- FX
- Supernaut
- Snowblind
- Cornucopia
- Laguna Sunrise
- St. Vitus Dance
- Under the Sun
- Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Metzinger 2003)
- The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Metzinger 2009)
- Philosophy of Psychedelics (Letheby 2021)
- Thinking and Perceiving: On the Malleability of the Mind (Stokes 2021)
Jan 27, 2023: Receives 500K Euros Grant to Expand Open Access publishing platform for journals
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Vol. 1 No. I (March 24, 2020) – Radical Disruptions of Self-Consciousness
Vol. 1 No. I (2020)
Published March 24, 2020
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/view/218
Radical disruptions of self-consciousness: Editorial introduction
Raphael Milliere, Thomas Metzinger
Dissolving the self: Active inference, psychedelics, and ego-dissolution
George Deane
Look who’s talking! Varieties of ego-dissolution without paradox
Sascha Benjamin Fink
Cotard syndrome, self-awareness, and I-concepts
Rocco Joseph Gennaro
Being for no-one: Psychedelic experience and minimal subjectivity
Chris Letheby
Attenuating oneself: An active inference perspective on “selfless” experiences
Jakub Limanowski, Karl Friston
Minimal phenomenal experience: Meditation, tonic alertness, and the phenomenology of “pure” consciousness
Thomas Metzinger
The varieties of selflessness
Raphael Milliere
Perspectival self-consciousness and ego-dissolution: An analysis of (some) altered states of consciousness
Miguel Angel Sebastian
Breaking the self: Radical disruptions of self-consciousness and impossible conscious experiences
Wanja Wiese
Vol 1 No. II (December 30, 2020) – Neuroreductionism Fest
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/view/216
Vol. 2 (September 22, 2021) – Neural Correlates of Consciousness
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/view/215
Vol. 3 (January 25, 2022) – Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/view/270
Volume 3, Jan 25, 2022 [1 year + 3 days ago]
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Vol. 3, 2022: Special Issue: Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/issue/view/270 –
Vol. 4 (September 1972)
x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU99kUnWW3E
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=Vol.4%28Black+Sabbath+album%29
Wheels of Confusion
Tomorrow’s Dream
Changes
FX
Supernaut
Snowblind
Cornucopia
Laguna Sunrise
St. Vitus Dance
Under the Sun
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Metzinger 2003)
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
Thomas Metzinger
2003
https://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/dp/0262134179/
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Metzinger 2009)
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
2009
Thomas Metzinger
https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/0465045677/ –
The self is not a myth. Learn semantics.
Metzinger’s brain is an illusion.
The question is, what is the actual nature of the self.
Master language, dummies!
Not the stupid formulations:
- “The self exists”
- “The self doesn’t exist”
- “The self is real”
- “The self is not real”
-Cybermonk
Philosophy of Psychedelics (Letheby 2021)
Philosophy of Psychedelics (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry)
Chris Letheby
October 25, 2021
url https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Psychedelics-International-Perspectives-Psychiatry/dp/0198843127/ –
Find “Letheby” in my page:
Idea Development page 16
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/idea-development-page-16/
Blurb:
“Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations.
“Supervised psychedelic sessions can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addiction, and improve well-being in healthy volunteers, for months or even years.
“But these benefits seem to be mediated by “mystical” experiences of cosmic consciousness, which prompts a philosophical concern:
“do psychedelics cause psychological benefits by inducing false or implausible beliefs about the metaphysical nature of reality?
“This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs.
“Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism.
“Within the book, Letheby integrates empirical evidence and philosophical considerations in the service of a simple conclusion:
“this “Comforting Delusion Objection” to psychedelic therapy fails.
“While exotic metaphysical ideas do sometimes come up, they are not, on closer inspection, the central driver of change in psychedelic therapy.
“Psychedelics lead to lasting benefits by altering the sense of self, and changing how people relate to their own minds and lives-not by changing their beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality.
“The upshot is that a traditional conception of psychedelics as agents of insight and spirituality can be reconciled with naturalism (the philosophical position that the natural world is all there is).
“Controlled psychedelic use can lead to genuine forms of knowledge gain and spiritual growth-even if no Cosmic Consciousness or transcendent divine Reality exists.
“Philosophy of Psychedelics is an indispensable guide to the literature for researchers already engaged in the field of psychedelic psychiatry, and for researchers-especially philosophers-who want to become acquainted with this increasingly topical field.”
Thinking and Perceiving: On the Malleability of the Mind (Stokes 2021)
Thinking and Perceiving: On the Malleability of the Mind
(New Problems of Philosophy)
Dustin Stokes
May 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Perceiving-New-Problems-Philosophy/dp/1138729388/ –
Special issue early 2023 on Stokes’ book:
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/announcement/view/26
Blurb:
“Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds.
“One can make sensory perceptual contact with the world: One sees the tree and hears its leaves flutter.
“And one makes cognitive contact with the world: One forms beliefs about the tree, memories of how it was in the past, and expectations of how it will be in the future.
“Can the first, perception, be influenced in important ways by the second, cognition?
“Do cognitive states such as memories, beliefs, and expectations affect what one perceives through the senses?
“And what is the importance of these possible relations to how we theorize and understand the human mind?
“Possible cognitive influence on perception (sometimes called “cognitive penetration of perception”) has been long debated in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: Some argue that such influence occurs, while others argue that it does not or cannot.
“In this excellent introduction and overview of the problem, Dustin Stokes examines the following:
- The philosophical and scientific background to cognition and perception
- Contemporary ways of distinguishing cognition and perception
- Questions about the representational content of perception versus cognition
- Distinct theories of mental architecture: modularity versus malleability
- Consequences for epistemology, philosophy of science, and aesthetics
- Philosophical and scientific research on perceptual attention
- Perceptual skill, learning, and expertise
- Perceptual content, objectivity, and cultural bias.
“Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, make Thinking and Perceiving an ideal resource for students of
- philosophy of mind and psychology,
- cognitive psychology, and
- cognitive science.”
[translation: Cognitive Neuroreductionism. Where is Cognitive Phenomenology? It ended up in Wouter Hanegraaff’s Rejected wastebasket, check there.]
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