Over a century ago, the psychologist William James proposed a thought experiment, and suggested the answer: if the eyes were forced to connect to the auditory centres of the brain, and the ears with the visual centres, we would “hear the lightning and see the thunder” [1]. James’ point was that the perceptual qualities of our sensations — what philosophers term qualia — have their origin in the...

The natural world constantly inundates our senses with an abundance of information. Selective attention enables us to navigate this abundance intelligently by selecting the information that is most relevant, at each moment in time, for differential processing and decision-making. The attributes of attention have been studied in humans for over a century. In his influential 19(th) century treati...

In this paper I examine William James' concept of the 'warmth and intimacy' of bodily self-consciousness and relate it to recent attempts to recast bodily self-consciousness in strictly neural terms. James takes bodily 'warmth and intimacy' to solve a number of problems related to the material and spiritual aspects of self and personal identity. He mentions but does not fully explore the possib...

In den Spuren Kierkegaards. Logi Gunnarsson philosophiert via William James uber Sinn des Philosophierens einer Tagebuchaufzeichnung Soren Kierkegaards aus 1830’er Jahren erfahren wir von der Suche Verfassers nach Wahrheit, die “Wahrheit fur mich ist” (Kierkegaard 1962: 16), und seiner Einsicht, dies sei es gewesen, was ihm gefehlt habe: “ein vollkommen menschliches Leben zu fuhren, nicht blos ...

Siguiendo la propuesta de Peirce en su Argumento Olvidado, este artículo trataremos observar equivalencia generativa y metodológica lo que llamaremos las experiencias abductivas religiosas científicas. Para articular estas conexiones, nos apoyaremos también conferencias Gifford William James (1901-1902) reunidas bajo el título Las variedades experiencia religiosa. Estudiaremos ampliamente, adem...

from the ancient times, the question of god’s concept has been an ultimate concern for humankind and in recent times most of the thinkers try to answer in it from different aspects. the present article is going to consider this problem from yung's psychoanalytical point of view. following william james and sigmund freud generally, carl gustav yung has had many studies concerning psychology...