The rôle of vision in the mental life of the mouse

1910 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 549-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl T. Waugh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Life

Why we assume it's all good: The role of theory of mind in early inherent feature inferences

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Bartsch ◽  
David Estes
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Inherent Feature ◽  
The Status

AbstractCimpian & Salomon's (C&S's) characterization of a domain-general inherence heuristic, available to young children, underplays the importance of our early interest in and recognition of agency, intentionality, and mental life. A consideration of the centrality of desires, goals, and agency in our earliest reasoning suggests an alternative, perhaps complementary, account of our tendency to be satisfied with the status quo.

scholarly journals Mind your Meat: Religious Differences in the Social Perception of Animals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunalan Manokara ◽  
Albert Lee ◽  
Shanmukh Vasant Kamble ◽  
Eva Krumhuber
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Food Animals ◽  
Animal Perception ◽  
Role Of Religion

Whilst previous work demonstrated that animals are categorized based on their edibility, little research has systematically evaluated the role of religion in the perception of animal edibility, particularly when specific animals are deemed sacred in a religion. In two studies, we explored a key psychological mechanism through which sacred animals are deemed inedible by members of a faith: mind attribution. In Study 1, non-vegetarian Hindus in Singapore (N = 70) evaluated 19 animals that differed in terms of their sacredness and edibility. Results showed that participants categorized animals into three groups: holy animals (high sacredness but low edibility), food animals (low sacredness but high edibility) and neutral animals (low sacredness and low edibility). Holy animals were deemed to possess greater mental life compared to other animal categories. In Study 2, we replicated this key finding with Hindus in India (N = 100), and further demonstrated that the observed pattern of results was specific to Hindus but not Muslims (N = 90). In both studies, mind attribution mediated the negative association between sacredness and edibility. Our findings illustrate how religious groups diverge in animal perception, thereby highlighting the role of mind attribution as a crucial link between sacredness and edibility.

scholarly journals PENYEMBUHAN DALAM JEMAAT DITINJAU DARI SUDUT THEOLOGI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Rencan Carisma Marbun
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Divine Healing ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
General Provision

AbstractIn the Bible, we do not see the description of pain and healing as we haveencountered in the world of medicine. However, from a number of terms thebackground or meaning can be known. In the Old Testament, sickness is due to someone experiencing in their body something incomplete, or “badevents”. He does not experience normal bodily and mental life, perhaps due to infection, imbalance (harmony), or backward health, so he is called sick (holi). We see that healing is one of the responsibilities that humans can do for people who suffer from illness. The role of doctor and his remedybecomes and seems to indicate his responsibility towards the sufferingperson, who is deficient in reaffirming the people (cf. the term “hzk piel” in Jeremiah 30:21; 34: 4). In the New Testament, we do not find theimpression of illness arising as a sign of God's punishment, but instead inJesus’ ministry, He healed people, a sign of reestablishing the order of life with God (cf. Luke 4:18). Healing is generally an act or a way to heal the sick, and it can also be mentioned that healing is divine. Healing in Greek is called in the plural meaning the gifts of healing. The healing of miracles in the Gospel of John emphasizes the dynamic work of God and the sign (Greek: semeia) of His power. Disease is not only a result of sin, but also shows God’s work (9:3). So it is clear that healing miracles is not only valid individually, locally, or temporarily physical meaning, but also in general, provision and spiritual.Keywords: Healing, Congregation

The Interoceptive Mind

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Neurosciences ◽  
Affect And Cognition

This volume focuses on the role of interoception for mental life and lived experience, from the perspectives of neurosciences, psychological sciences, and philosophy. Interoception is the body-to-brain axis of signals originating from the internal body and visceral organs (such as gastrointestinal, respiratory, hormonal, and circulatory systems), and plays a unique role in ensuring homeostasis. This volume goes beyond the traditional role of interoception for homeostasis and offers a state-of-the-art overview of and new insights into the role of interoception for mental life, awareness, subjectivity, affect, and cognition. Structured across three parts, this multidisciplinary volume highlights the role that interoceptive signals and awareness thereof play in our mental life (Part I), considers deficits in interoceptive processing and awareness in various mental health conditions but also the equally important role of interoception for well-being (Part II), and approaches interoception from a theoretical and philosophical perspective, representing a highly novel departure for philosophy of mind and subjectivity (Part III). The chapters share a common concern for what it means to experience oneself, for the crucial role of emotions, and for issues of health and well-being, discussed on the joint basis of our bodily existence and interoception. The research presented here will hopefully accelerate the much-anticipated coming of age of interoceptive research in psychology, cognitive neurosciences, and philosophy.

scholarly journals Język w służbie myśli. Szkice z dziejów polskiego słownictwa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Grzegorczykowa
Keyword(s):  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The publication discusses general problems of linguistics, the role of language in psychical and mental life of man and the history of words – signs of abstract thinking. The guiding principle of the works collected in the volume is to consider language as a fundamental tool for thinking and comprehending the world.

Apt Imaginings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Right

Do people’s responses to works of art track their responses to the real world? Specifically, do emotions, cognitions, and desires elicited by fictional stories and visual imaginings differ—in their constitution or the norms that govern them—from those based on beliefs and perceptions? A commitment to one or another answer to this question animates reflection on the nature of art from Plato’s banishment of dramatic poetry from his ideal state to theories in cognitive science of the role of imagination in our mental life. This book defends a thesis of normative discontinuity: although the doxastic representations, emotions, desires, and evaluations that one forms in engaging with a fiction depend on much of the same psychological and neurophysiological machinery one employs in navigating the real world, the norms that govern the appropriateness of those attitudes toward what is fictional or imagined can be contrary to the norms that govern their fit to analogous things in the real world. In short, this book argues that the functions of art ground, on occasion, a kind of autonomy of the imagination: what would be the wrong way to feel or think about states of affairs in the real world could be the right way to feel or think when those states of affairs are only make-believe.

Simon Franklin, Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 325. Hb $65.00 US; and Sean Hawkins, Writing and colonialism in Northern Ghana: The encounter between the LoDagaa and ‘the world on paper’. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 468. Hb $80.00 Can.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 734-738
Author(s):  
David R. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Sources

Two remarkable books arrived on my desk from quite different sources early in 2003. My purpose in reviewing them is twofold: first, to convince the general reader that the study of culture can no longer ignore the transformative role of written documents in social and mental life in either antique cultures or in contemporary modernizing ones; and second, to introduce the authors of these fine books to each other.

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