scholarly journals The Emotional Mind and The Moral Mind

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Bongrae Seok
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kind ◽  
Interactive Process ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Grand Vision

In The Emotional Mind, Asma and Gabriel (2019) develop their grand vision of affect. Their goal is to demonstrate the foundational and pervasive nature of emotion in the mind, culture and society through the embodied, embedded, and enactive process of evolution. The book discusses how affective adaptation supports or leads diverse facets of human psychology and society. In this paper, however, I raise three critical questions about Asma and Gabriel’s approach to emotion: (1) whether emotion is a natural kind, (2) whether internalized self-critical emotions came to exist through the adaptive and interactive process of decoupling, and (3) whether the variance and integrity of the tripartite layers of the mind can be maintained.

From Mental Evolution in Man (1888)

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
George John Romanes
Keyword(s):  
Human Psychology ◽  
The Mind

The present work being thus a treatise on human psychology in relation to the theory of descent, the first question which it must seek to attack is clearly that as to the evidence of the mind of man having been derived from mind as we...

scholarly journals Mind-wandering as a natural kind: A family-resemblances view

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Seli ◽  
Michael Kane ◽  
Jonny Smallwood ◽  
Daniel L. Schacter ◽  
David Maillet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Natural Kind ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Mind

As empirical research on mind-wandering accelerates, we draw attention to an emerging trend in how mind-wandering is conceptualized. Previously articulated definitions of mind-wandering differ from each other in important ways, yet they also maintain overlapping characteristics. This conceptual structure suggests that mind-wandering is best considered from a family-resemblances perspective, which entails treating it as a graded, heterogeneous construct and clearly measuring and describing the specific aspect(s) of mind-wandering that researchers are investigating. We believe that adopting this family-resemblances approach will increase conceptual and methodological connections among related phenomena in the mind-wandering family and encourage a more nuanced and precise understanding of the many varieties of mind-wandering.

On Inhumanity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Livingstone Smith
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
The Mind

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again—that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche—deeper than prejudice itself—leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This book looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result.

Personal Identity and the Idea of a Human Being

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Madell
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Natural Kind ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

The central fact about the problem of personal identity is that it is a problem posed by an apparent dichotomy: the dichotomy between the objective, third-person viewpoint on the one hand and the subjective perspective provided by the first-person viewpoint on the other. Everyone understands that the mind/body problem is precisely the problem of what to do about another apparent dichotomy, the duality comprising states of consciousness on the one hand and physical states of the body on the other. By contrast, contemporary discussions of the problem of personal identity generally display little or no recognition of the divide which to my mind is at the heart of the problem. As a consequence, there has been a relentlessly third-personal approach to the issue, and the consequent proposal of solutions which stand no chance at all of working. I think the idea that the problem is to be clarified by an appeal to the idea of a human being is the latest manifestation of this mistaken approach. I am thinking in particular of the claim that what ought to govern our thinking on this issue is the fact that human beings constitute a natural kind, and that standard members of this kind can be said to have some sort of essence. Related to this is the idea that ‘person’, while not itself a natural kind term, is not a notion which can be framed in entire independence of this natural kind.

Migliorare la memoria? La medicina della memoria, la demenza e il cervello che invecchia

2012 ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Stephen Katz ◽  
Kevin R. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cholinesterase Inhibitors ◽  
Aging Brain ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cholinergic Hypothesis ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

The study explores the relationship between the neurosciences, aging, anti-aging culture, memory medicine, and the hypercognitive society. The first part traces the discourses of mind from the Enlightenment to contemporary biosocial models where the aging brain has become a social laboratory for research, experimentation, and intervention. The second part explores the Cholinergic Hypothesis, the development of the cholinesterase inhibitors and their recent implementation in cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Critical questions are posed about how the mission to optimize aging has affected projects to enhance the mind.

Enhancing the mind? Memory medicine, dementia, and the aging brain

2013 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Stephen Katz ◽  
Kevin R. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cholinesterase Inhibitors ◽  
Aging Brain ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cholinergic Hypothesis ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

The study explores the relationship between the neurosciences, aging, anti-aging culture, memory medicine, and the hypercognitive society. The first part traces the discourses of mind from the Enlightenment to contemporary biosocial models where the aging brain has become a social laboratory for research, experimentation, and intervention. The second part explores the Cholinergic Hypothesis, the development of the cholinesterase inhibitors and their recent implementation in cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Critical questions are posed about how the mission to optimize aging has affected projects to enhance the mind.

Al-Ghazāī on the Signification of Names

Vivarium ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taneli Kukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Kind ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Commentary Tradition ◽  
Peri Hermeneias

AbstractAl-Ghazālī’s most detailed explanation of how signification works occurs in his treatise on The Beautiful Names of God. Al-Ghazālī builds squarely on the commentary tradition on Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias: words signify things by means of concepts and correspondingly, existence is laid out on three levels, linguistic, conceptual, and particular (i.e. extramental). This framework allows al-Ghazālī to put forward what is essentially an Aristotelian reading of what happens when a name successfully picks out a being: when a quiddity is named by some kind term, its referent in the mind is formally identical to the quiddity of an individual existent which belongs to that natural kind. Al-Ghazālī then proceeds to tease out the implications of this scheme for the special problem of signifying God. It turns out that the Peripatetic theory, which al-Ghazālī appropriates from Ibn Sīnā, is ill equipped for the task as al-Ghazālī envisions it.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

Metaphors in the Mind

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette Littlemore
Keyword(s):  
The Mind
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