Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality

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Beskrivning

This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. If different states of consciousness can be linked with properties and states of the brain this can be used to study consciousness more directly.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-12-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:760 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
Antal sidor:411
Upplaga:2014
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319016337

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Introduction: Laying out the Field of Meditation Research, S. Schmidt, H. Walach.-Towards an Epistemology of Inner Experience, H. Walach.- The Meditative Approach to Awaken Selfless Insight, W.J.H. Austin.- Meditation as First-Person Methodology: Real Promise—and Problems, J. Shear.- Using First-Person Reports during Meditation to Investigate Basic Cognitive Experience, W. Hasenkamp.- I am I from moment to moment: Methods and results of grasping intersubjective and intertemporal neurophysiological differences during Meditation states, T. Hinterberger.- Does neuroimaging provide evidence of meditation-mediated neuroplasticity? S. Clausen, et al.- Opening up Meditation for Science: The development of a meditation classification system, S. Schmidt.- The Neurobiology of Meditation and Mindfulness T. Esch.- Meditation Effects in the Social Domain: Self-Other Connectedness as a General Mechanism? F-M. Trautwein, et al.- Mindfulness Meditation and the Experience of Time, M. Wittmann and S. Schmidt.- Meditation and Hypnosis at the Intersection between Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, M. Lifshitz, et al.- Insights from Quiet Minds: The Converging Fields of Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering, M.D. Mrazek, et al.- Can Contemplative Science Bring Meditation to (Western) Life? N.A.S. Farb.- Spiritual Phenomena as Public Goods: Exploring Meditation beyond the Standard Model, T. Falkenberg.- Does Meditation Give Us Unique Insight into Ultimate Reality? The Ethical Aim of Buddhism, H. Edge.- God or Ultimate Reality in Theory and Practise - A Philosophical Analysis, A.L.C. Runehov.- The Concept of Tri-Guna: A Working Model, M. Puta and P. Sedlmeier.- Meditation – a link to spirituality and health. A novel approach to a human consciousness field experiment E. van Wijk, et al.- Mindfulness in German Schools [MISCHO] – A specifically Tailored Training Program: Concept, Implementation and Empirical Results Vera Kaltwasser, S. Sauer, N. Kohls.