global warming is one of the major concerns in environmental issues. its effects are being exposed faster than anticipated recently. it causes adverse ecological and socioeconomical effects. the 4th assessment report issued by the u. n.’s intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) states that it is appropriate to define global warming was caused by greenhouse gases due to human activities...

THIS latest edition of Tredgold and Soddy's Textbook of Mental Deficiency in many ways rcpresents a healthy departure from static descriptions of pathological states alone to a more dynamic approach to the understanding of problems of social and psychological adjustment in mentally defective individuals. This owes much to the lessons learned from Child Psychiatry, and indeed the chapters on nor...

Patrolling the mind’s boundaries Abstract: Defenders of the extended mind thesis say that it is possible that some of our mental states may be constituted, in part, by states of the extrabodily environment. Often they also add that such extended mentation is a commonplace phenomenon. I argue that extended mentation, while not impossible, is either nonexistent or far from widespread. Genuine bel...

Representation has always been a central part of models in cognitive science, but this idea has come under attack. Researchers advocating the alternative approaches of perceptual symbol systems, situated action, embodied cognition, and dynamical systems have argued against central assumptions of the classical representational approach to mind. We review the core assumptions of the representatio...

This article aims to bridge phenomenology and the study of plant intelligence with the view to enriching both disciplines. Besides considering the world from the perspective of sessile organisms, it would be necessary, in keeping with the phenomenological framework, to rethink (1) the meaning of being-sessile and being-in-a-place; (2) the concepts of sentience and attention; (3) how aboveground...

The pull to coordinate with other individuals is fundamental, serving as the basis for our social connectedness to others. Discussed is a dynamical and ecological perspective to joint action, an approach that embeds the individual's mind in a body and the body in a niche, a physical and social environment. Research on uninstructed coordination of simple incidental rhythmic movement, along with ...

In this article, I share general principles that allow me to situate body psychotherapy within the realm of other psychotherapy schools. The frame I use comes from experimental psychology, which has traditionally defended the vision of an embodied psyche which includes mind and affects. I will focus on French-speaking organismic psychology (Lamarck – Bernard – Charcot Ribot Binet Janet Wallon –...