A recurrent problem in the philosophical debates over whether there is or can be nonconceptual experience all conceptually structured, mediated, dependent lack of a generally accepted account what concepts are. Without precise specification concept is, notion nonconceptuality equally ill defined. This cuts across contemporary philosophy and cognitive science as well classical Indian philosophy,...

submission for TSC 2014: We humans experience ourselves as objects and as subjects. The distinction initiated by Kant between consciousness of oneself as object and consciousness of oneself as subject was a strict one. The rigidity of that distinction has been challenged by philosophers from the continental and the analytic traditions [1]. From another perspective, researches about animal self-...

Although most aspects of world and self-consciousness are inherently subjective, neuroscience studies in humans and non-human animals provide correlational and causative indices of specific links between brain activity and representation of the self and the world. In this article we review neuroanatomic, neurophysiological and neuropsychological data supporting the hypothesis that different lev...

Edwards but not Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scores influence the predictability of suicidal intent. If this effect occurs because the Edwards Scale records a substantive trait rather than a response set, then it should display predictable associations with variables that are relevant to theories of suicide. In line with the work of Durkheim (Suicide, 1897/195 1) and Baumeister (Psycholog...

The paper briefly reviews the contribution of recent neuroscience findings to our understanding of our human nature – more exactly, to the understanding of the three properties that we conceive of as highly-specifically human: consciousness, freedom, and language. The analysis yields rather surprising results. Self-consciousness is possibly not the highpoint of our sophisticated cognitive funct...