L. Witmer. Commonwealth Fund. $2.50. Despite the experience of humanity since time began of the importance of " mind " in relationship to " body public imagination has not yet been stirred to any great extent, at least in this country, by the greatest of modern adventures in the field of human welfare, that of psychiatry. This is perhaps scarcely surprising in that medicine has tended to deal w...

Many philosophers take it for granted that epiphenomenalism is obviously a dead end for an understanding of the human mind and its relation to the physical world and nothing but a counterintuitive theory of last resort. Others, by contrast, think that epiphenomenalism might be the way out of some of the severest problems discussed in the philosophy of mind during the past decades. Traditionally...

The optimal anesthetic technique for transvaginal ultrasound guided oocyte retrieval (TUGOR) is not known. We present a case series of patients having TUGOR under intravenous remifentanil infusion and paracervical block (PCB). One hundred four unpremedicated patients were included in our study. After monitoring heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) a...

One class of parent–child interaction that has recently received attention is a mother’s engagement with her child at a mental level. The current study operationalizes this notion by asking the mothers of 354 7to 11-year-old children drawn from a larger community sample (N 1⁄4 659) to guess the responses of their children, who, in turn, were asked to attribute thoughts to their peers in distres...

Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time. While such ideas have been central to philosophy from its inception, the philosophy of space and time was both an inspiration for and a central aspect of early analytic philosophy. The subject focuses on a number of basic issues, including w...

Dear Hans-Jörg! In the seventies and early eighties we have been colleagues in the ‘Automatentheorie und Formale Sprachen’ group at TU Berlin and shared many interests. Later we departed into different fields of research and followed different directions of thought. It is thirty years now that we have completed our PhD at TU Berlin, and this year is your sixtieth birthday. Since the times at AT...

This paper explores the ramifications of the extended cognition thesis in the philosophy of mind for contemporary epistemology. In particular, it argues that all theories of knowledge need to accommodate the ability intuition that knowledge involves cognitive ability, but that once this requirement is understood correctly there is no reason why one could not have a conception of cognitive abili...

When people engage in social interactions, they often rely on their theory of mind, their ability to reason about unobservable mental content of others such as beliefs, goals, and intentions. This ability allows them to both understand why others behave the way they do as well as predict future behaviour. People can also make use of higher-order theory of mind by applying theory of mind recursi...

The current study investigated the relationship between mother–child interaction quality and infants’ ability to interpret actions as goal-directed at 7 months in a sample of 37 dyads. Interaction quality was assessed in a free play interaction using two distinct methods: one assessed the overall affective quality (emotional availability), and one focused on the mother’s proclivity to treat her...

abstract aim and background: theory of mind is the ability to attribute one’s own or others mental states which has an important role in social and behavioral performances. the purpose of the present study was compare theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and major depression with normal individuals. methods and materials: the present research was a causal- comparative study. the subjec...