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  1. Immortality and the existence of God: reformulating the arguments of Plato, Anselm, and Gödel.David Apolloni - 2024 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    David Apolloni defends a modern version of Plato's argument for the immortality of the soul and argues the soul is non-physical. The book also defends a version of Gödel's ontological argument for God's existence. Using the results, he supports accounts of the afterlife from those who have had near-death experiences.
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  2. Consciousness, Attention, and the Motivation-Affect System.Tom Cochrane - 2023 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 30 (7):139-163.
    It is an important feature of creatures like us that our various motivations compete for control over our behaviour, including mental behaviour such as imagining and attending. In large part, this competition is adjudicated by the stimulation of affect — the intrinsically pleasant or unpleasant aspects of experience. In this paper I argue that the motivation-affect system controls a sub-type of attention called 'alerting attention' to bring various goals and stimuli to consciousness and thereby prioritize those contents for action. This (...)
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  3. Plotinus and Augustine on the mid-rank of soul: navigating two worlds.Joseph Torchia - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    This book addresses the mid-rank of the soul theme as it emerges in Plotinus and Augustine in the context of their respective interpretations of universal order. They both use the journey metaphor to describe the soul's progress through the turbulent "sea" of earthly existence.
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  4. Plotinus and Augustine on the Mid-Rank of Soul: Navigating Two Worlds.O. P. Torchia - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    This book addresses the mid-rank of the soul theme as it emerges in Plotinus and Augustine in the context of their respective interpretations of universal order. They both use the journey metaphor to describe the soul’s progress through the turbulent “sea” of earthly existence.
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  5. The 7 energies of the soul: awaken your inner creator, healer, warrior, lover, artist, explorer, & master.David Gandelman - 2022 - San Antonio, TX: Hierophant Publishing.
    David Gandelman has helped thousands of students look within to find their own answers to life's big questions: Who am I? What am I here to do? How can I find happiness? Over the course of this journey, he began to notice that the overwhelming number of powerful life questions and conundrums his students encountered fell into seven categories, which he eventually realized were actually seven potent energies that existed within each individual soul. When any one... of these energies is (...)
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  6. The human soul: essays in honor of Nalin Ranasinghe.Predrag Cicovacki (ed.) - 2021 - Wilmington, Dela.: Vernon Press.
    This collection of essays is dedicated to a recently deceased philosopher and humanist, Nalin Ranasinghe. His central philosophical and humanistic preoccupation was with the human soul. Not surprisingly, his greatest inspiration was Socrates' credo "Care for your soul," and the title of his first book was 'The Soul of Socrates'. In this and his later writings, Ranasinghe expressed his growing concern over the idea that the human soul has been highjacked due to the way our civilization has developed: the highest (...)
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  7. Cognitive penetration and informational encapsulation: Have we been failing the module?Sam Clarke - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (8):2599-2620.
    Jerry Fodor deemed informational encapsulation ‘the essence’ of a system’s modularity and argued that human perceptual processing comprises modular systems, thus construed. Nowadays, his conclusion is widely challenged. Often, this is because experimental work is seen to somehow demonstrate the cognitive penetrability of perceptual processing, where this is assumed to conflict with the informational encapsulation of perceptual systems. Here, I deny the conflict, proposing that cognitive penetration need not have any straightforward bearing on the conjecture that perceptual processing is composed (...)
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  8. A Chronology of Nalin Ranasinghe; Forward: To Nalin, My Dazzling Friend / Gwendalin Grewal ; Introduction: To Bet on the Soul / Predrag Cicovacki ; Part I: The Soul in Dialogue. Lanya's Search for Soul / Percy Mark ; Heart to Heart: The Self-Transcending Soul's Desire for the Transcendent / Roger Corriveau ; The Soul of Heloise / Predrag Cicovacki ; Got Soul : Black Women and Intellectualism / Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou ; The Soul and Ecology / Rebecca Bratten Weiss ; Rousseau's Divine Botany and the Soul / Alexandra Cook ; Diderot on Inconstancy in the Soul / Miran Božovič ; Dialogue in Love as a Constitutive Act of Human Spirit / Alicja Pietras. Part II: The Soul in Reflection. Why Do We Tell Stories in Philosophy? A Circumstantial Proof of the Existence of the Soul / Jure Simoniti ; The Soul of Socrates / Roger Crisp ; Care for the Soul of Plato / Vitomir Mitevski ; Soul, Self, and Immortality / Chris Megone ; Morality, Personality, the Human Soul / Ruben Apressyan ; Strategi. [REVIEW]Wayne Cristaudoappendix: Nalin Ranasinghe'S. Last Written Essay What About the Laestrygonians? The Odyssey'S. Dialectic Of Disaster, Deceit & Discovery - 2021 - In Predrag Cicovacki (ed.), The human soul: essays in honor of Nalin Ranasinghe. Wilmington, Dela.: Vernon Press.
  9. A natural history of the soul: who are we anyway? what does our future hold?Arnold M. Lund - 2021 - Edmonds, WA: Örn Press.
    What will your soul's gender be in Heaven? Will your pet Harry be there? Could your clone have a soul? Will eternity be fun? What is it with the ghosts of loved ones? A Natural History of the Soul makes a challenging topic accessible through an entertaining and readable exploration. It begins by reviewing beliefs about the soul and the afterlife in our popular culture, and looks at how they have evolved from the earliest humans. It identifies key concepts in (...)
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  10. A cultural history of the soul: Europe and North America from 1870 to the present.Kocku Von Stuckrad - 2021 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture-from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. (...)
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  11. The soul in the twentieth century: insights in psychology, science, nature, philosophy, spirituality, and politics from Europe and North America.Kocku von Stuckrad - 2021 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture-from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. (...)
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  12. World Soul: A history.James Wilberding (ed.) - 2021 - New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
    The concept of the world soul is difficult to understand in large part because over the course of history it has been invoked to very different ends and within the frameworks of very different philosophical systems, with very different concepts of the world soul emerging as a result. This volume brings together eleven chapters by leading philosophers in their respective fields that collectively explore the various ways in which this concept has been understood and employed, covering the following philosophical areas: (...)
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  13. What is soul?Wolfgang Giegerich - 2020 - New York: Routledge.
    Rooted in the metaphysics of bygone times, the notion of soul in our Western tradition is packed with associations and meanings that are incompatible with the anthropological and naturalistic thinking that prevails in modernity. Whereas treatises of old conceived of the soul as an infinite, immaterial substance which was the ground of man's hope for eternal salvation, modern psychology has for the most part discarded the concept in favor of more tangible touchstones such as the emotions, desires, and attachments which (...)
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  14. Perspectives on synchronicity, inspiration, and the soul.Rico Sneller - 2020 - Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    This book explores the notion of the human psyche ('soul') and its continuing usefulness in the background of the ongoing and always accelerating techno-scientific revolution. The main argument here follows the assumption that this revolution, while not necessarily being a threat to humankind, is often blind or ignorant as to its subject, the 'human being'. In the first chapters, the reader is invited to reflect on the notion of 'thinking' as a phenomenon of consciousness that transcends merely 'having thoughts'. Relating (...)
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  15. Lazarus revived: an atheist argument for conscious life after death.Alexander Matthews - 2019 - Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books.
    Lazarus Revived shows how two thought experiments provide the foundation for arguments for the existence of conscious life after death. The theories of pluriverses and the Big Bang are examined and a substitute equation for E=MC² is presented.
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  16. Minority Reports: Consciousness and the Prefrontal Cortex.Matthias Michel & Jorge Morales - 2019 - Mind and Language 35 (4):493-513.
    Whether the prefrontal cortex is part of the neural substrates of consciousness is currently debated. Against prefrontal theories of consciousness, many have argued that neural activity in the prefrontal cortex does not correlate with consciousness but with subjective reports. We defend prefrontal theories of consciousness against this argument. We surmise that the requirement for reports is not a satisfying explanation of the difference in neural activity between conscious and unconscious trials, and that prefrontal theories of consciousness come out of this (...)
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  17. Are We Bodies or Souls?Richard Swinburne - 2019 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    What makes us human? Richard Swinburne presents new philosophical arguments, supported by modern neuroscience, for the view that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains.
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  18. Spirit, time and eternity: East-West reflections.Christina Manohar - 2015 - Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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  19. I think, therefore I am? Examining conceptions of the self, soul, and mind.Stephanie M. Anglin - 2014 - Consciousness and Cognition 29:105-116.
  20. Rivalry: A Geisha’s Tale.Thorsten Botz-Bornstein - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (3):385-386.
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  21. The book of immortality: the science, belief, and magic behind living forever.Adam Gollner - 2013 - New York: Scribner.
    An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.
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  22. Coming to Mind: The Soul and its Body.Lenn E. Goodman & D. Gregory Caramenico - 2013 - London: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Dennis Gregory Caramenico.
    How should we speak of bodies and souls? In _Coming to Mind_, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms. Rooted in some of the richest philosophical and intellectual traditions of (...)
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  23. Souls exist.Richard J. Schain - 2013 - College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing.
    The central thesis of Souls Exist is since the idea of God has lost credibility in much of contemporary society, the idea of the soul has suffered a similar fate. In the modern world, the concept of soul is not a meaningful reality for most individuals. The author emphasizes the dehumanizing consequences for those who are not conscious of the existence of their soul and the need for its development. Discussion of the soul's importance is founded on existential realities, not (...)
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  24. The Figure of “Rivalry” and Its Function in Kant's Ethics.Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze - 2013 - In Christopher Luetege (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer. pp. 355--384.
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  25. Detecting olfactory rivalry.Richard J. Stevenson & Mehmet K. Mahmut - 2013 - Consciousness and Cognition 22 (2):504-516.
    Olfactory rivalry can occur when a binary mixture is sniffed repeatedly, with one percept dominating then the other. Experiment 1 demonstrated olfactory rivalry using several new techniques. Experiments 2 and 3 examined whether participants can notice rivalry. Participants received trials composed of odor pairs: either a mixture followed by the same mixture; or a pure odor followed by the same pure odor. On some trials participants judged whether the two stimuli were the same or different, to see if they could (...)
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  26. Binocular rivalry and stereopsis revisited.Randolph Blake - 2012 - In Jeremy Wolfe & Lynn Robertson (eds.), From Perception to Consciousness: Searching with Anne Treisman. Oxford University Press.
  27. Vidal, Fernando. The Sciences of the Soul. [REVIEW]Daniel N. Robinson - 2012 - Review of Metaphysics 65 (4):900-901.
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  28. The immortalization commission: science and the strange quest to cheat death.John Gray - 2011 - New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
    A great philosopher will change the way you think about your life. For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new ideas -- from psychiatry to evolution to Communist -- seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands. We would ourselves become God. This is the theme of a remarkable new book by one of the world's greatest lving philosophers. It is (...)
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  29. Soul and mind, or the path there and back.Tomas Machula - 2011 - Filosoficky Casopis 59 (5):645-663.
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  30. Scene congruency biases Binocular Rivalry.Liad Mudrik, Leon Y. Deouell & Dominique Lamy - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (3):756-767.
    Contextual regularities, that is, objects’ tendency to appear with certain other objects, facilitate the processing of visual scenes and confer contextually incongruent objects with a special attentional status. This study was aimed at investigating the mechanisms underlying this attentional advantage using Binocular Rivalry . In two experiments, congruent and incongruent images were pitted against each other, yielding a version of BR in which two objects rival within a given scene. Incongruent objects predominated in awareness longer than congruent ones. This effect (...)
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  31. Symbolic magnitude modulates perceptual strength in binocular rivalry.Chris L. E. Paffen, Sarah Plukaard & Ryota Kanai - 2011 - Cognition 119 (3):468-475.
  32. In My Ever After: Immortality and its Critics.Robert J. Geis - 2010 - Lanham, Md.: Upa.
    This book argues against neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Part I identifies scientific grounds for a real world outside consciousness and self-refutational flaws in quantum physics; Part II explores why consciousness cannot be electrical in origin, and how partibility and subjectivity evince reasons for accepting immortal consciousness.
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  33. Reid and Wells on Single and Double Vision.Giovanni B. Grandi - 2010 - Journal of Scottish Thought 3:143-163.
    In a recent article on Reid’s theory of single and double vision, James Van Cleve considers an argument against direct realism presented by Hume. Hume argues for the mind-dependent nature of the objects of our perception from the phenomenon of double vision. Reid does not address this particular argument, but Van Cleve considers possible answers Reid might have given to Hume. He finds fault with all these answers. Against Van Cleve, I argue that both appearances in double vision could be (...)
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  34. The Valley Way of the Soul. [REVIEW]Rachel Browne - 2009 - Philosophy Pathways 141.
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  35. The influence of anxiety on the initial selection of emotional faces presented in binocular rivalry.Katie L. H. Gray, Wendy J. Adams & Matthew Garner - 2009 - Cognition 113 (1):105-110.
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  36. Soul and its becoming in the Transcendent Philosophy.Hossain Ashtari - 2008 - Transcendent Philosophy Journal 9:35-54.
    The reality of the soul, its levels and actions, and its relation to the body havealways been among the most important philosophical issues, andevidence for this may be found even in the most ancient philosophicaldeliberations of the Greeks and others.In the philosophical traditions of the Islamic world as well, serious attemptshave been made to present a “science of the soul” which is in accord with thespirit of Islamic philosophical sciences. In the Transcendent Philosophy, onthe other hand, a version of science (...)
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  37. Predictive coding explains binocular rivalry: an epistemological review.Jakob Hohwy, Andreas Roepstorff & Karl Friston - 2008 - Cognition 108 (3):687-701.
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  38. Fixing functionalism.Bruce Katz - 2008 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (3):87-118.
    Functionalism, which views consciousness as the product of the processing of stimuli by the brain, is perhaps the dominant view among researchers in the cognitive sciences and associated fields. However, as a workable scientific model of consciousness, it has been marred by a singular lack of tangible success, except at the broadest levels of explanation. This paper argues that this is not an accident, and that in its standard construal it is simply too unwieldy to assume the burden of full-fledged (...)
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  39. Soul.Robert Blackson (ed.) - 2007 - Sunderland, UK: Reg Vardy Gallery in partnership with Satellite Arts.
    What do you think your soul looks like? This fully illustrated hardback publication includes hundreds of drawings from all over the world created in response to this question. Soul is the result of seven years of research by curator Robert Blackson and writer Edward Clapp who have asked everybody from goat herders in Tibet to Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to sit down and draw their soul with just a pencil and paper. The diversity of responses to this elusive (...)
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  40. Mountains and valleys: Binocular rivalry and the flow of experience.Diego Cosmelli & Evan Thompson - 2007 - Consciousness and Cognition 16 (3):623-641.
    Binocular rivalry provides a useful situation for studying the relation between the temporal flow of conscious experience and the temporal dynamics of neural activity. After proposing a phenomenological framework for understanding temporal aspects of consciousness, we review experimental research on multistable perception and binocular rivalry, singling out various methodological, theoretical, and empirical aspects of this research relevant to studying the flow of experience. We then review an experimental study from our group explicitly concerned with relating the temporal dynamics of rivalrous (...)
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  41. Tracking the soul: with an astrology of consciousness.Joe Landwehr - 2007 - Mountain View, Mo.: Ancient Tower Press.
    This book presents a system of spiritual psychology, integrating astrology and the chakras, including detailed case studies for each chakra.
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  42. Immortality Defended.John Leslie (ed.) - 2007 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, _Immortality Defended_ suggests we could well be immortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence, among them, "why does the cosmos exist?", "is there a divine mind or God?", and "in what sense might we have afterlives?" Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for a religious (...)
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  43. Comment on “Mountains and valleys: Binocular rivalry and the flow of experience”☆.Pierre Livet - 2007 - Consciousness and Cognition 16 (3):642-644.
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  44. The godfather of soul.Preston Jesse, Gray Kurt & M. Wegner Daniel - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (5):482-+.
    An important component of souls is the capacity for free will, as the origin of agency within an individual. Belief in souls arises in part from the experience of conscious will, a compelling feeling of personal causation that accompanies almost every action we take, and suggests that an immaterial self is in charge of the physical body.
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  45. Meg phase follows conscious perception during binocular rivalry induced by visual stream segregation.Ramesh Srinivasan & Sanja Petrovic - 2006 - Cerebral Cortex 16 (5):597-608.
  46. Neural bases of binocular rivalry.Frank Tong, Ming Meng & Randolph Blake - 2006 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 (11):502-511.
  47. I nomi comuni dell'anima.Stefano Baratta & Flavio Ermini (eds.) - 2005 - Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali.
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  48. Increased gamma-band synchrony precedes switching of conscious perceptual objects in binocular rivalry.Sam M. Doesburg, Keiichi Kitajo & Lawrence M. Ward - 2005 - Neuroreport 16 (11):1139-1142.
  49. Eye-specific effects of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus.J. D. Haynes, R. Deichmann & G. Rees - 2005 - Nature 438 (7069):496-9.
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  50. Predicting the stream of consciousness from activity in human visual cortex.John-Dylan Haynes & Geraint Rees - 2005 - Current Biology 15 (14):1301-7.
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