2021

Volume 42, Number 1 Winter 2021

The Mind/Brain State
Jason W. Brown, New York University Medical Center

Towards Resolving the Hard Problem: A Synergistic Network Account of Consciousness
Roderick J. Orner, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom and Janet Galpin, Spalding, United Kingdom

Cognitive Science Models: An Aristotelian–Thomistic Appraisal
James M. Stedman, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Psychology and the Legacy of Hobbesianism: Egoism, Motivation, and the Death of Meaning
Edwin E. Gantt and Richard N. Williams, The Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University

Cognitive Penetration Is an Instance of Experimental Confounding — Due to the Operationalization of Perception as a Magnitude Estimation (Rather than as a Category Identification)
Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy, Ahmedabad, India

Book Review

Sensitive Soul: The Unseen Role of Emotion in Extraordinary States
Book Author: Michael A. Jawer
Reviewed by Steven M. Rosen, College of Staten Island/City University of New York

 

Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2021

How Reductive Analyses Are Confused and How to Fix Them: A Critique of Varitel Semantics
Nancy A. Salay, Queen’s University

Kinetic Memories: An Embodied Form of Remembering the Personal Past
Marina Trakas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina

Enactivism, the Field of Affordances, and Mental Disorder
Michelle Maiese, Emmanuel College

On Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs
Deborah K. Heikes, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Hamlet on the Couch Revisited: A Radical Behavioral Perspective
Russell Hopfenberg, Duke University

 

Volume 42, Numbers 3 and 4, Summer and Autumn 2021

The Strange Nature of Quantum Perception: To See a Photon, One Must Be a Photon
Steven M. Rosen, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Sizing Up Free Will: The Scale of Compatibilism
Stuart T. Doyle, Third Force Reconnaissance Company, USMC

A Brief Retrospective: Belief Systems and Psychological Traits Contributing to the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States
Joshua A. Cuevas, University of North Georgia and Bryan L. Dawson, University of North Georgia

Mechanisms of Unconscious Thought: Capacities and Limits
Adrian P. Banks, University of Surrey

The Two Factor Theory of Understanding (TFTU): Consciousness and Procedures
Sam S. Rakover, Haifa University 

Critical Notice
In the Pursuit of an Ecological and Enactive Theory of Affordances
Miguel A. Sepúlveda–Pedro, University of Montreal