Contemporary theories of consciousness. by Zeman, A, Grayling, A, Cowey, A

Review of: Preston, P.W.: Making Sense Development: Introduction Classical and Contemporary Theories Development and their Application Southeast Asia by Duff-Cooper, A

Representing the Mind in the French Catholic Novel by Kemp, S

“…This article explores how the Catholic Novel participates in this debate, presenting its own detailed conception of consciousness derived from theological principles, finding echoes with certain contemporary theories of the mind and contrast with others, and, in particular, coming into sharp conflict with both the existentialist and psychoanalytic models.…”

Democracy and the body politic from Aristotle to Hobbes by Smith, S

“…The conventional view of Hobbes’s commonwealth is that it was inspired by contemporary theories of tyranny. This article explores the idea that a paradigm for Hobbes’s state could in fact be found in early modern readings of Aristotle on democracy, as found in Book Three of the Politics. …”

Fear of death and supernatural beliefs: Developing a new supernatural belief scale to test the relationship by Jong, J, Bluemke, M, Halberstadt, J

“…Fear of death features in both historical and contemporary theories of religion, but the relationship between death anxiety and religious belief is still ambiguous, largely due to the use of inappropriate or imprecise measures. …”

Selective attention to pain: a psychophysical investigation. by Spence, C, Bentley, D, Phillips, N, McGlone, F, Jones, A

“…These findings are discussed in relation to contemporary theories of crossmodal attention and multisensory information-processing.…”

Descriptions, ambiguity, and representationalist theories of interpretation by Koralus, P

“…My arguments suggest that an adequate theory of descriptions may require considerable rethinking. Most contemporary theories of descriptions appear to be committed to one or more claims about the ambiguity of descriptions that I reject in this paper. …”

Foxhole atheism, revisited: The effects of mortality salience on explicit and implicit religious belief by Jong, J, Halberstadt, J, Bluemke, M

“…Although fear of death features prominently in many historical and contemporary theories as a major motivational factor in religious belief, the empirical evidence available is ambivalent, and limited, we argue, by imprecise measures of belief and insufficient attention to the distinction between implicit and explicit aspects of cognition. …”

Investigating attentional control sets: evidence for the compilation of multi-feature control sets by Merz, S, Beege, F, Schöpper, L-M, Spence, CJ, Frings, C

“…The data support the idea of multi-feature attentional control sets and are discussed in light of prominent contemporary theories of visual attention.…”

General practices as emergent research organizations: a qualitative study into organizational development. by Macfarlane, F, Shaw, S, Greenhalgh, T, Carter, Y

“…We analysed the data with reference to contemporary theories of organizational development. RESULTS: Participants identified a number of key events and processes, which allowed us to produce a five-phase model of practice development in relation to research activity (creative energy, concrete planning, transformation/differentiation, consolidation and collaboration). …”

Cognitive approaches to delusions: a critical review of theories and evidence. by Garety, P, Freeman, D

“…PURPOSE: To review critically the evidence for three contemporary theories of delusions. METHODS: The theoretical approaches to delusions proposed by Frith and colleagues ('theory of mind' deficits), Garety and colleagues (multi-factorial, but involving probabilistic reasoning biases) and Bentall and colleagues (attributional style and self-discrepancies) are summarised. …”

Dopamine-associated cached values are not sufficient as the basis for action selection. by Hollon, N, Arnold, M, Gan, J, Walton, M, Phillips, P

“…It is widely hypothesized that these cached values determine the selection among multiple courses of action, a premise that has provided a foundation for contemporary theories of decision making. In the current work we used fast-scan cyclic voltammetry to probe dopamine-associated cached values from cue-evoked dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of rats performing cost-benefit decision-making paradigms to evaluate critically the relationship between dopamine-associated cached values and preferences. …”

Assessment of automatic associations with bodily sensations and agoraphobic situations in panic disorder by Woud, M, Becker, E, Rinck, M, Harmer, C, Reinecke, A

“…</p> <h4>Conclusions</h4> <p>The present findings do not support contemporary theories of panic-related associations. Therefore, follow-up work is needed to disentangle their functional and operational properties more thoroughly. …”