Advertising exposure,memory, and choice

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Mitchell, A.A. (Ed.) (1993). Advertising exposure, memory, and choice. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. 352 pp. ISBN 0-8058-0685-7.£46.95/$87.50 (hbk).     

Believing,holding true,and accepting

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Belief is not a unified phenomenon. In this paper I argue, as a number of other riters argue, that one should distinguish a variety of belief-like attitudes: believing proper - a dispositional state which can have degrees - holding true - which can occur without understanding what one believes - and accepting - a practical and contextual attitude that has a role in deliberation and in practical reasoning. Acceptance itself is not a unified attitude. I explore the various relationships and differences between these doxastic attitudes, and claim that although acceptance is distinct from belief, it rests upon it, and is therefore a species of belief.     

Horstmann, Siep, and German Idealism

Die Grenzen der Vernunft. Eine Untersuchung zu Zielen und Motiven des Deutschen Idealismus. By Rolf-Peter Horstmann. Frankfurt a.M.: Anton Hain, 1991, 321 pp. ISBN 3–445-08568-4
Praktische Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus. By Ludwig Siep. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1992, 348 pp. ISBN 3–518-28635-8 pb     

Implicit learning,consciousness, and the psychology of thinking

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Berry, D., & Dienes, Z. (1993). Implicit learning: Theoretical and empirical issues. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. 197pp. ISBN 0-86377-223-4 £19.95 (hbk).

Reber A. S. (1993). Implicit learning and tacit knowledge: An essay on the cognitive unconscious. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1 88pp. ISBN 0-19-505-9425 £30.00 (hbk).     

A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated: The Undying: Pain,Vulnerability, Mortality,Medicine, Art,Time, Dreams,Data, Exhaustion,Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer,New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2019

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Silent Virtues: Patience,Curiosity, Privacy,Intimacy, Humility,and Dignity,by Salman Akhtar,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 192 pp.

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A Web of Sorrow: Mistrust,Jealousy, Lovelessness,Shamelessness, Regret,and Hopelessness,by Salman Akhtar,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 180pp.

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Dreams,agency, and judgement

Sosa (Proc Addresses Am Philos Assoc 79(2): 7–18, 2005) argues that we should reject the orthodox conception of dreaming—the view that dream states and waking states are “intrinsically alike, though different in their causes and effects” (2005: p. 7). The alternative he proposes is that “to dream is to imagine” (2005: p. 7). According to this imagination model of dreaming, our dreamt conscious beliefs, experiences, affirmations, decisions and intentions are not “real” insofar as they are all merely imagined beliefs, experiences, affirmations, decisions and intentions. This paper assesses the epistemic implications of Sosa’s imagination model of dreaming. Section 1 outlines and assesses the reasons Sosa gives for thinking that his imagination model of dreaming introduces a new dimension to debates about dream scepticism. Sosa argues that his imagination model of dreaming invites a more radical version of dream scepticism, and also makes available a novel and more powerful response to dream scepticism. Objections are raised to both of those claims. This leads to a challenge to Sosa’s imagination model of dreaming. This is the concern that Sosa’s imagination model of dreaming lacks the resources to accommodate the intuition that there is something illusory or misleading about one’s situation when one is dreaming, and as a result his account of dreams fails to accommodate the common intuition that there is a sceptical problem about dreaming but not about dreamless sleep. Section 2 of the paper elaborates a version of the imagination model of dreaming that can overcome that challenge. This version of the imagination model of dreaming goes beyond what Sosa explicitly commits to when he outlines his view of dreams, however, it exploits ideas that are integral to a key theme in Sosa’s recent writings on virtue reliabilism—namely his proposal that epistemic agency should be accorded a central place in that approach to knowledge, and his related proposal that agency is exercised in conscious judgement. An implication of this version of the imagination model of dreaming is that an elucidation of a connection between the wakeful condition and our capacity to exercise agency over our mental lives should be central to an account of the nature, and epistemic significance of, wakeful consciousness. The final section of the paper considers whether this version of the imagination model of dreaming has anything novel to contribute to debates about dream scepticism.

     

Perfectionism, depression, and academic performance

In samples of 30 Canadian and 117 American undergraduates, academic performance was more strongly correlated with perfectionism scores (Revised Almost Perfect Scale) (r = .20 and -.17) than with those on self-reported depression (CES-Depression) (r = -.09).     

COVID-19, Sex,Addictions, Women's Health,Care of the Elderly,and Medical Education

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Illusion,Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis,by John Steiner,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2020, 167 pp.

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SPECIES,TEPEES, SCOTTIES,AND JOCKEYS: SELECTED BY CONSEQUENCES

“Ideas are like species: they must evolve.” This claim forms the conceptual core of an engaging book by Jonnie Hughes (2011), On the Origin of Tepees. Hughes asks: If evolution by natural selection explains the origin of the human species, then does selection by consequences also explain the origin of what we humans make and do? This question prompts consideration of three important analogies: between natural selection and artificial selection, between the law of natural selection and the law of effect, and between biological evolution and cultural evolution. These analogies in turn stimulate examination of the notions of purpose, design, and agency. Finally, discussion moves to the selectionism of Darwin and Skinner; although still controversial, this view remains the best way for natural science to understand the origins of adaptive behavior.     

Goethe, Kant, Locke, Villaume knew our technic of individual therapy

John Locke (1632-1704) and Villaume (1746-1825) were already familiar with the method with which we, in our "individual therapy", treat neurotic patients. The question whether conditional reflexes and the elimination of their effects play an essential part in the procedure must be denied.     

James Marsh,Process, Praxis,and Transcendence

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Freud,Sullivan, Mitchell,Bion, and the Multiple Voices of International Psychoanalysis by Marco Conci,International Psychoanalytic Books,New York, 2019, 721 pp.

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Salman Akhtar: Good Stuff: Courage,Resilience, Gratitude,Generosity, Forgiveness,and Sacrifice

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Content,Illusion, Partition

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Empathy,Sympathy, Care

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Extending the argument from unconceived alternatives: observations,models, predictions,explanations, methods,instruments, experiments,and values

Synthese - Stanford’s argument against scientific realism focuses on theories, just as many earlier arguments from inconceivability have. However, there are possible arguments against...     

Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food,Sex, Gambling,Internet, Shopping and Work,edited by Nina Savelle-Rocklin and Salman Akhtar,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 192 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -