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Laughter as a Subject and a Tool for Interdisciplinary Investigations in Philosophy and Neuroscience. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Neurosci
Laughter has been explored by philosophers and neuroscientists. Combining the humor theories (incongruity and relief) with neuroimaging advances, we propose that laughter influences brain dynamics and global cognitive states. Laughter is not only a subject but also a tool for advancing neuroscience.
Sugano VT   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Pragmatism as Idealism? The Case of Mary Whiton Calkins. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Hist Behav Sci
ABSTRACT American pragmatism is traditionally described as a logico‐philosophical movement that arose in opposition to the theological and metaphysical assumptions of the early American idealists. Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930) challenges this narrative in two central ways: she presents pragmatism as encompassing psychological, logical, and ...
Kampen L.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Hour that Never Comes and the Time that Remains [PDF]

open access: yesJ Anal Psychol
Abstract This essay proposes a symbolic and clinical investigation of psychic temporality through two archetypal experiences of time: the hour that never comes and the time that remains. Drawing on analytical psychology, trauma theory and aesthetic philosophy, text explores how certain forms of suffering resist chronological resolution and persist as ...
Daniel Françoli Yago
europepmc   +2 more sources

Christian Bohr. Discoverer of Homotropic and Heterotopic Allostery: Periods Leading up to Bohr's Life, Work, and Beyond. Was Bohr a Vitalist and Right About a "Specific Activity"? [PDF]

open access: yesActa Physiol (Oxf)
ABSTRACT This essay recounts and revisits the scientific contributions of Christian Bohr, highlighting his pivotal role in discovering allostery about 120 years ago. Bohr's meticulous experimentation led to identifying two distinct forms of allostery: homotropic (single‐ligand) and heterotropic (multi‐ligand), the latter widely recognized as the Bohr ...
Bindslev N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Henri Bergson

open access: yesDigithum, 2017
Henri Bergson fou escrit entre els mesos de juny i agost de 1914, quan Georg Simmel ja s’havia establert a Estrasburg. En aquest text Simmel se centra en la figura del filòsof francès i en remarca la importància per a la tradició filosòfica mitjançant la consideració de la seva filosofia de la vida com l’element principal per a una concepció moderna ...
openaire   +4 more sources

What No Research Means: The Problematic of Time and Possibilities for Expansiveness in Interpretive Literacy Research

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines what becomes possible for interpretive literacy research when time is treated not as a neutral backdrop but as a central problematic. We argue that research does not merely trace temporal sequences; it actively creates temporalities that shape what becomes sensible, thinkable, and sayable within literacy studies.
Gail Boldt, Kevin Leander
wiley   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music

open access: yesArea, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Attention has emerged as an important issue in the social sciences and humanities in recent years. Much influential work characterises our era as one in which our attention is increasingly placed under stress, seeking to unpack the consequences of such a state of affairs for our capacities to think.
George Burdon
wiley   +1 more source

Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 434-455, September 2025.
Abstract This article draws on recent theoretical interventions into the relationship between time and law to make sense of the role of time in the context of immigration bail hearings in the United Kingdom. It presents an analysis of the ways in which the Home Office, the First‐Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), and immigration judges ...
JO HYNES
wiley   +1 more source

Bergson, Henri

open access: yesEnsyklopedia Logos, 2023
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) oli yksi 1900-luvun alkupuolen merkittävimpiä ranskalaisia filosofeja. Hän nousi kansainväliseen maineeseen pääteoksensa L’évolution créatrice (Luova evoluutio, 1907) myötä. Bergsonin filosofian kantavana ajatuksena on todellisen muutoksen luonteen ymmärtäminen.
Lipsanen Katariina, Myllymaa Lauri
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