The Servile Mind

Malagasy at the Mascarenes: Publishing in a Servile Vernacular before the French Revolution

European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed “colonial linguistics” were based on investigations among speakers of native tongues in the regions in which those speakers normally resided, twining language studies with observe...

The Triune Brain: Limbic Mind Mind Plastic, Emotional Mind

Problem statement: The theory discussed is revealing, as compared to studies on the human brain, the fact that he has inherited the structure and organization of three fundamental types of reptiles, ancient or primitive mammals and mammals, or recent evolved. What is very disconcerting is that nature has been able to connect with each other and establish a sort of communication between them. Ap...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Mind Control: Frontiers in Guiding the Mind

John D. Medaglia ∗, Perry Zurn † ‡ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong § Danielle S. Bassett ¶ ‖ ∗Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,†Center for Curiosity, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,‡Department of Philosophy, American University, Washington, DC, 20016 USA,§Department of Philosophy and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, ...

Mind-blanking: when the mind goes away

People often feel like their minds and their bodies are in different places. Far from an exotic experience, this phenomenon seems to be a ubiquitous facet of human life (e.g., Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Many times, people's minds seem to go "somewhere else"-attention becomes disconnected from perception, and people's minds wander to times and places removed from the current environment (...