The second issue of the fifth volume of the open access journal Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro
Sciences has been published. In the first article of this issue (Psychosis
and Intersubjective Epistemology), HH. Maung claims that delusions and
hallucinations present a challenge to traditional epistemology. Against the traditional
objective realism that assumes that there is a mind-independent objective world
of which people gain knowledge through experience, the author proposes an
intersubjective account of psychosis, which avoids this sceptical attack on
objective certainty by considering reality not at the level of an objective mind-independent
world, but at the level of peoples' shared experiences. This intersubjective
hypothesis is developed further, with reference to Husserl's concept of
multiple lifeworlds, into a relativistic account.
To read it:
http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-A12-08.htm
In the second article, entitled “Pseudohallucinations: a critical review”,
A. Sanati discusses a contentious phenomenon in clinical psychopathology: the
pseudohallucinations. In a well developed historical account of the development
of the concept, Sanati contributes to the discussion in clinical
psychopathology by showing that while the pseudohallucinations’ location and the
patient's insight into them are not able to distinguish pseudohallucinations
from hallucinations, the quality of the perception is a better guide in this distinction.
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this paper:
The third article is a new idea by A. Zoumpouli. She discusses the major contribution of the father of psychopathology, Karl Jaspers: i.e., the concept of “static understanding”. In this paper entitled “A contemporary approach to Jaspers' static understanding” Zoumpouli suggests that Japers' static understanding prefigures two main types of empathy emerging from contemporary scientific research in neuroscience and social psychology, namely "automatic emotional empathy" and "cognitive empathy".
To read it:
http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-C12-02.htm
The other “new
idea” is by E. Gluskin, an expert of physics and complex systems. In a paper
entitled “An argument regarding the nature of hooligan behaviour” the author transposes
some ideas of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger to the debate about the hooligan behaviour,
which is explained as a natural human response to the improper (in its content
or form) "informational feeding" that does not allow one to normally
treat ("digest") the received information.
This paper
is at: http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-C12-01.htm
Finally, two dialogues by A. Rudnick and D. Trafimow respectively discuss the problem of psychiatric comorbidity and that of the epistemological distinction between science and mysticism. The links to download these contributions are, respectively, http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-D12-03.htm and http://www.crossingdialogues.com/Ms-D12-02.htm
