What I do believe is that we have a right to learn for ourselves who we will become, and what we will be like, by making transformative choices. I call this “revelatory autonomy”. I argue for this right in exploring…
Francesca Minerva, University of Milan Alberto Giubilini, University of Oxford Most of the time, the type of health care we are legally entitled to coincides with what is considered good medical and medical ethics standards by relevant professional bodies. At the moment,…
Moreover, we do not share both Andrada’s and Aagaard’s intuition that there is an opposition between extended mind-wandering on the one hand and digital distraction or extended mental manipulation on the other hand, such that any episode of habitual smartphone…
Clearly, whether we are asleep or awake does, typically, tend to make a difference to the degree of perceptual coupling of which we are capable at that time. Yet, I am tempted to say that whether we are asleep or…
Maiese, M. (2022). Mindshaping, enactivism, and ideological oppression. Topoi, 41(2), 341-354. The Replacement Thesis: That in competing for the same cognitive resources as non-extended mind-wandering, extended mind-wandering might come to replace non-extended mind-wandering. The Functionality Thesis: That extended mind-wandering might share the costs…
AMANDA**: Amanda joins the queue for coffee. While progressing in the queue, she draws out her phone and checks a number of apps. Her social media feed has specifically selected ads concerning green smoothies, and plant-based protein bars. When she…
Jelle Bruineberg and Regina E. Fabry (BF) start their paper on extended mind-wandering by denouncing two insidious biases in extended mind research: The harmony bias and the cognitive task bias. Steering clear of these biases means acknowledging that a) not all technology use…
The replacement thesis: Extended mind-wandering competes for the same cognitive resources as non-extended mind-wandering and seems to partially replace non-extended mind-wandering. The conceptual framework for extended mind-wandering that we develop in the paper brings a number of comparative issues into view….
But the fact that our notions of the ways in which we might be authentic are so deeply cultural should give us pause. What we take individualization to consist in, the content of an authentic way of being, is culturally shaped….
Now, what if, after careful introspection and reflection, you find out that you truly are a notorious liar? In this case, another dimension of authenticity provides further guidance. Authenticity also demands defining, being, and expressing yourself largely free of the…
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Of course, the same shifting phenomenon occurs with morally awful views, as we can see in the rise of Nazi ideology in Germany in the 1930s from a minority outlook to occupation of the centrist position. It is noteworthy that…
There has recently been an excellent and troubling example. Some museums have started to change their labels. They consider that the use of the word ‘mummy’ demeans the dead, and are using instead the adjective ‘mummified’: thus, for instance ‘mummified…
In the paper, entitled Transformative experience and the right to revelatory autonomy, Akhlaghi writes: “It is not the value of making a choice as such but, rather, that of autonomously making choices to learn what our core preferences and values…
