Naturalizing Pheneomenology, reviewed by Josef Parnas
David Robinson (ed.),
Neurobiology, reviewed by Julie Martineau
Marion Hall & David Robinson
The Human Brain (CD-ROM), reviewed by Julie Martineau
Laura Sewall
Sight and Sensibility, reviewed by Greg Nixon
Jonathan Crary
Suspensions of Perception, reviewed by Amy Ione
Kate M. Loewenthal
The Psychology of Religion, reviewed by Gary Schouborg
John Symons
On Dennett, reviewed by J. Teixeira & F. Magalhães
Ronald Russell
The Vast Enquiring Soul, reviewed by Imants Barûss
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ABSTRACTS
Benny Shanon
Altered Temporality
Temporality is a fundamental determinant of human cognition. There are,
however, states of mind in which people feel that temporality changes radically
and perhaps even becomes irrelevant. Here I attempt a typology of the patterns
of such non-ordinary temporal experiences. The discussion is based on a
phenomenological study of the special state of consciousness induced by
Ayahuasca, a powerful Amazonian psychoactive brew.
Correspondence: Benny Shanon, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel.
Email: msshanon@mscc.huji.ac.il
Paul Marshall
Transforming the World Into Experience: An Idealist Experiment
Idealism tackles the mind–body problem by giving precedence to mind and
relegating matter to a dependent status. Contrary to popular opinion, idealism
need not deny the existence of matter nor dispute the realist contention
that objects exist independently of perceptual experience. However, idealism
requires that matter and external objects are experiential or mind-dependent
in a fundamental way. I develop a form of idealism that affirms the existence
of an external world, but makes it experiential. The characteristics of
the external experience are taken to be akin to those of perceptual experience,
but attention is given to some likely differences. An attempt to accommodate
modern physics in the experiential account yields an idealism with panpsychic
features.
Correspondence: Paul Marshall, Dept. of Religious Studies, Lancaster University,
Lancaster LA1 4YW, U.K.
Email: p.d.marshall@lancaster.ac.uk
