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  • Vol. 5 No. 2 (2026): JNφphi, Articles Accepted for Publication, Ahead of Print

    08.08.2026

    The Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNφphi) is pleased to present Volume 5, No. 2 (2026), a diverse collection of peer-reviewed contributions addressing contemporary questions concerning consciousness, mind and brain, philosophy, artificial intelligence, quantum approaches to cognition, and the theoretical foundations of neurophilosophy. 

    New Perspectives on Human Consciousness as the Brain Activation State (BAS)
    Cheng Gong

    This article proposes a perspective on human consciousness in relation to brain activation states, addressing the relationship between neural activity and conscious experience. The contribution offers a framework for considering consciousness from a neurobiological and neurophilosophical perspective.

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    Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: A Comprehensive Review of Theories, Evidence, and Future Directions
    Taruna Ikrar, Wachyudi Muchsin, Alfi Sophian

    This comprehensive review examines major quantum approaches to the brain and mind, bringing together theoretical proposals, available evidence, and future directions for research concerning quantum principles, cognition, and consciousness.

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    Substratism: The Material Continuity of Being
    Marques A. Reavis

    This theoretical contribution develops the concept of substratism and examines the possibility of understanding the continuity of being through a material and philosophical framework, addressing fundamental questions concerning existence, materiality, and continuity.

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    Sleep, Negentropy and Consciousness
    Michael Remler

    This hypothesis-driven article explores the relationship between sleep, negentropy, and consciousness, proposing a theoretical perspective on how organized biological processes may relate to conscious states and cognitive function.

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  • TrendMD Performance at the JNφphi (2025–2026)

    02.06.2026

    TrendMD is a content recommendation and discovery platform specifically designed for academic and medical publications. Unlike general-purpose recommendation engines that promote news, entertainment, or shopping content, TrendMD focuses exclusively on scholarly articles, journals, and research outputs. Its core purpose is to help readers discover relevant academic content that they might otherwise never encounter, and to help publishers expand their readership beyond their traditional audience.

    At its simplest level, TrendMD works by displaying a widget on a journal's article pages. This widget contains links to other articles that the TrendMD algorithm considers relevant to the content the reader is currently viewing. These recommendations appear naturally within the reading experience, typically between the conclusion and the references, or in a sidebar. When a reader clicks on one of these links, they are taken to another article, which may be from the same journal or from a different journal within the TrendMD network.

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  • JNφphi Editorial :: Consciousness at the Crossroads: Neurophilosophy, Identity, and the Future of Mind in an Era of Technological Transformation

    07.05.2026

    The fifth volume (2026:1) of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy emerges during a period of extraordinary intellectual convergence. Questions once considered primarily philosophical—What is consciousness? What constitutes personal identity? Is free will real? Can machines ever become conscious?—are now increasingly shaped by developments in neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, quantum theory, psychiatry, and computational modeling. As empirical sciences advance deeper into the mechanisms of cognition and subjective experience, philosophy is no longer merely interpreting scientific discoveries after the fact; rather, it has become an active partner in framing, criticizing, and extending the conceptual boundaries of those discoveries. 

    This issue reflects precisely that interdisciplinary transformation. Across review articles, theoretical investigations, opinion papers, empirical analyses, and philosophical hypotheses, the contributions collected here collectively demonstrate that consciousness studies can no longer proceed within isolated disciplinary silos. Instead, the field increasingly requires integrative frameworks capable of addressing not only neural mechanisms, but also phenomenology, embodiment, narrative identity, ethics, technological mediation, and the metaphysical implications of mind itself.

    One of the central themes running throughout this volume is the growing influence of predictive and inferential models of cognition. In their extensive review, Predictive Processing and Active Inference: A Comprehensive Review of Theoretical Foundations, Neural Mechanisms, and Clinical Implications in Cognitive Science, Taruna Ikrar, Wachyudi Muchsin, and Alfi Sophian examine how predictive processing has evolved from a computational hypothesis into a potentially unifying paradigm for understanding perception, action, emotion, and psychopathology. Their work highlights an increasingly influential idea within cognitive science: the brain may not passively receive reality, but actively construct it through probabilistic modeling and continuous prediction-error minimization. Such perspectives profoundly reshape classical assumptions about perception, agency, and conscious awareness itself.

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  • JNφphi: Indexing, Archiving, and Scholarly Infrastructure

    12.03.2026

    The Journal of NeuroPhilosophy is committed to ensuring the highest standards of scholarly visibility, accessibility, and long-term preservation. In addition to the analytics and readership metrics presented in our primary editorial report, we are pleased to highlight the journal's inclusion across a broad ecosystem of international indexing services, research infrastructures, digital archives, and scholarly identity platforms. This integrated network of databases significantly enhances the discoverability, citation potential, and academic impact of the research published in the journal.

    The Journal of NeuroPhilosophy also acknowledges the importance of national research evaluation systems that contribute to the recognition and assessment of scholarly publications. In this context, the journal is aligned with the evaluation frameworks established by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). ANVUR is the official body responsible for assessing the quality of research outputs produced by Italian universities and research institutions. Through its national research assessment exercises and journal classification systems, ANVUR plays a significant role in determining the academic impact and disciplinary relevance of scholarly publications. Recognition within the ANVUR evaluation framework increases the visibility of journals among Italian researchers and academic institutions, particularly in fields related to philosophy, cognitive science, and interdisciplinary humanities research. Inclusion in evaluation systems associated with ANVUR facilitates the integration of journal publications into institutional research assessment processes and supports the broader dissemination of scholarly contributions within the European academic environment.

    In the domain of philosophy-specific indexing, the journal benefits from inclusion in PhilPapers, one of the most respected and widely used databases for philosophical scholarship. PhilPapers provides detailed subject classification across numerous philosophical subfields, including philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of cognition, and philosophy of science. Through this platform, articles from the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy become part of a curated academic environment used extensively by philosophers for literature discovery, bibliographic research, and scholarly networking.

    The journal is also integrated into specialized philosophy documentation systems, including the Philosophy Documentation Center and the Digital Philosophy Index (DPi). These platforms provide additional visibility within the global philosophy research community by cataloguing journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and born-digital scholarship. Their structured indexing and bibliographic standards help ensure that contributions published in the journal are discoverable through specialized academic libraries and philosophy research portals.

    Beyond indexing, the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy places strong emphasis on digital preservation and long-term accessibility. All published articles are archived through Zenodo, the open research repository developed under the OpenAIRE infrastructure and supported by the European research community. By depositing content in Zenodo, the journal ensures stable, long-term access to its publications while also enabling integration with European open science frameworks. This repository-based archiving supports transparency, reproducibility, and open dissemination of research outputs.

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  • Editorial Overview – Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025) Journal of NeuroPhilosophy Published: 15 December 2025

    02.03.2026

    The second issue of Volume 4 (2025) of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy presents a rich and timely collection of contributions that reflect the journal’s core mission: to cultivate a rigorous dialogue between neuroscience, philosophy, ethics, and emerging technologies. This issue is particularly unified by a shared concern with agency, cognition, consciousness, and the changing boundaries between the biological, the artificial, and the conceptual. FULL TEXT ISSUE read more... 

    The issue opens with a Letter from the Editors by Nandor Ludvig, “Toward a Truly Beneficial AI Companion: A Call for Dialogue with Authors and Readers of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy.” This editorial sets the intellectual tone of the volume by inviting a reflective and participatory discussion on artificial intelligence—not merely as a tool, but as a companion shaping cognitive, ethical, and philosophical landscapes. The call emphasizes responsibility, interdisciplinarity, and mutual engagement between scholars and readers.

    In the Review Articles section, Ikrar and Sophian provide a comprehensive synthesis in “The Neurobiology of Cognition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: From Synaptic Plasticity to Cognitive Mapping.” This review bridges molecular and systems-level neuroscience with computational and AI-inspired frameworks, offering a valuable roadmap for understanding cognition at the intersection of biological learning mechanisms and artificial models.

    The Opinion and Perspectives section forms the conceptual backbone of this issue. Guerreiro’s “Do We Have Free Will, or Is Everything Predetermined? A Neuroethics Dilemma” revisits one of philosophy’s most enduring questions through the lens of contemporary neuroscience and ethical responsibility. Complementing this, Yao and colleagues examine moral asymmetries in “Double Standards in Moral Judgments Within Intimate Relationships,” integrating psychological, social, and ethical dimensions. 

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  • Beyond the Neuro-Revolution: A Reflexive Commentary on Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Mission of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy

    28.02.2026

    The recent article by Eugenio Petrovich and Marco Viola offers the first large-scale scientometric mapping of the relationship between philosophy and neuroscience. Using citation analysis, the authors systematically examine the structure, intensity, and direction of interaction between these two disciplines over a period exceeding four decades. This work does not merely provide a quantitative description; it empirically challenges an intellectual narrative that has animated neurophilosophical discourse for decades: the idea that neuroscience has, or should have, fundamentally altered the practice and self-understanding of philosophy. Petrovich and Viola's meticulous citation analysis reveals a relationship that is robust but complex, uneven, and structurally asymmetric. Interpreted in the context of the broader aims of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi), their findings invite us not only to reassess past intellectual assumptions but also to reflect on the shape of the interdisciplinary frontier ahead. This essay aims to explore the methodological innovations of Petrovich and Viola's study, the philosophical and scientific implications of their findings, and how these findings intersect with the core mission of JNphi in an expanded, threefold framework.

    JNphi's core mission is to foster rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry into age-old philosophical questions using the lens of neuroscience—to break free from disciplinary insularity while preserving conceptual depth. The journal strives to support conversations that range from the mind–body problem and consciousness to moral agency, emerging technologies, neuroethics, and the philosophical foundations of neuroscience itself. Its openness to diverse genres—reviews, perspectives, original research, and commentaries—reflects a commitment to pluralistic yet rigorous engagement with both empirical findings and conceptual analysis. The journal questions not only how neuroscientific data can transform philosophical concepts but also how philosophical analysis can illuminate the assumptions underlying neuroscientific research.

    The Petrovich and Viola article aligns naturally with this mission. By providing empirical diagnostics of the philosophy–neuroscience interface, it places neurophilosophical inquiry on a more transparent and accountable empirical footing. This is precisely the kind of reflective "meta-perspective" that JNphi aims to cultivate: understanding not just what questions neuroscience and philosophy ask of each other, but how, where, and to what extent those exchanges are taking place. The study thus functions as an empirical foundation upon which the journal's editorial strategy and the broader field's self-understanding can be built.

    The methodological rigor of the study deserves particular emphasis here. Petrovich and Viola operationalized philosophy and neuroscience using Web of Science (WoS) data, creating both "large" and "narrow" sets of journals. The "Philosophy large" set comprises 1,517 journals or book collections across four philosophy-relevant WoS categories ('Philosophy,' 'History & Philosophy of Science,' 'Ethics,' 'Medical Ethics'), while the "Neuroscience large" set includes 612 journals or book collections in two neuroscience categories ('Neurosciences,' 'Neuroimaging'). 

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  • We are pleased to announce that our journal has been officially recognized by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) as a Scientific Journal in Area 11 (Human Sciences)

    25.09.2025

    We are honored to announce that our journal has been officially recognized by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) as a Scientific Journal in Area 11 (Human Sciences).

    This recognition was granted following the successful evaluation of our application (ID No. 46060), submitted through the CINECA platform in accordance with the criteria established by the ANVUR Regulation for the Classification of Journals in CUN Areas 8a, 10, 11a, 12, 13, and 14. The decision, ratified by the Governing Board Resolution No. 199 of 04 September 2025, confirms that our journal meets both the general and the disciplinary requirements outlined by ANVUR.

    General requirements include:

    • the regularity and continuity of publications,

    • the accessibility of published materials to the wider academic community,

    • the transparent and diverse composition of the editorial board,

    • the rigorous adherence to ethical publishing standards,

    • the maintenance of robust and impartial peer-review procedures.

    Disciplinary requirements for Area 11 (Human Sciences) emphasize that the journal demonstrates:

    • correct and consistent use of recognized methodological approaches,

    • strong capacity for critical analysis,

    • precision and accuracy in bibliographic documentation,

    • contribution to the advancement of national and international scholarly debate within the humanities.

    By being officially listed among the recognized scientific journals in Area 11, our journal strengthens its position as a credible and authoritative platform for researchers and academics. This achievement underscores our continuing commitment to fostering academic dialogue, interdisciplinary perspectives, and innovative approaches across the wide spectrum of Human Sciences.

    Beyond a mere mark of quality, this recognition reflects our continuing endeavor to situate the journal at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy—an intellectual bridge across disciplines, cultures, and research traditions. In the spirit of neurophilosophy, we aspire to create an inclusive space where theoretical reflection and empirical inquiry converge, enabling both established scholars and emerging voices to share their perspectives. In this way, the journal affirms its role not only as a repository of scientific knowledge but also as an active forum for critical discussion, debate, and the circulation of ideas that enrich both the academic community and society at large.

    We extend our deepest gratitude to our editorial board members, peer reviewers, authors, and readers. Their intellectual contributions, critical engagement, and unwavering support have been instrumental in reaching this important milestone. This recognition belongs as much to them as to the journal itself.

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  • Dr. Nandor Ludvig’s brief, albeit concentrated, opinion on Werner Herzog’s “Theatre of Thought” reflects his cosmological neuroscientist view on this film

    09.07.2025

    Dr. Nandor Ludvig’s brief, albeit concentrated, opinion on Werner Herzog’s “Theatre of Thought” reflects his cosmological neuroscientist view on this film.  Ludvig expresses his admiration for Herzog’s oeuvre, naming him as a genius filmmaker of such – much debated – masterpieces as “Aguirre the Wrath of God” and “The Wild Blue Yonder”. 

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  • The Neuronal World Model (NWM): Constructing the Illusion of Reality

    15.05.2025

    What if everything we perceive — the world around us, the passage of time, the expanse of space, and even the intimate sense of “I” — is not an open window to objective reality but a grand neuronal hallucination? The Neuronal World Model (NWM), grounded in neurophilosophy and contemporary neuroscience, advances a radical reinterpretation of empirical reality by asserting that the brain does not merely represent the external world; it creates it. Through intricate patterns of electromagnetic synchronization and oscillatory dynamics, neural networks fabricate a seamless virtual reality — a coherent simulation so evolutionarily refined that it feels undeniably real.

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  • 1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium. November 29, 2024, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Türkiye

    19.03.2025

    Patricia Churchland, the global authority in neurophilosophy, was the main speaker of the symposium, while Prof. Dr. Sultan Tarlacı, who conducts scientific studies in this field, was also among the symposium speakers. Üsküdar University Founding President Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan said that "neurophilosophy is a new field and that much new information will emerge in this field".  At the symposium, Prof. Dr. Lütfü Hanoğlu “Philosophy for Neuroscience, Neuroscience for Philosophy; Cognitive Ontology”, Dr. Saffet Murat Tura “The Penfield Experiment and Neils Bohr's Complementarity Principle: An Epistemological Approach to the Problem of Consciousness”, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Talay Turner “Philosophy of Emotions and Neurophilosophy”, Dr. Merve Arlı Özekes “Neurophilosophy and the Question of Well-Being in Aristotle's Thought”, Dr. Lecturer M. Kaan Özkan “A Neurophilosophical Essay on the Origin of Phenomenal Experience”, Doğa Merve Karataş “Neurophilosophy: A Common Language for Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience” and Dr. Lecturer Baver Demircan “Neurophilosophy and Social Consciousness” gave a talk.

    The '1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium' held at the Üsküdar University South Campus Fuat Sezgin Conference Hall was held with the participation of important names in the field.  The opening speeches of the symposium, which was broadcast live on ÜÜ TV and Üsküdar University Youtube account, were made by Üsküdar University Philosophy Department Head Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Yazıcı, Dean Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Kaynak, Üsküdar University Rector Prof. Dr. Nazife Güngör and Üsküdar University Founding Rector and Chairman of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan. The global authority on neurophilosophy, the symposium's keynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Patricia Churcland, gave a presentation titled "The Origins and New Directions of Neurophilosophy". Churcland addressed the issue of morality and philosophy.

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  • Beyond Res Potentia and Res Extensa: Toward Res Exclusia — The Ontological Space of Consciousness

    19.03.2025

    One of the most ontologically revolutionary consequences of quantum theory was the reintroduction—after more than two millennia—of possibility as a fundamental category of being. In classical physics, the real was equated with the actual, and potentiality was relegated to epistemic ignorance: what was “possible” simply marked what was not yet known. With the advent of quantum mechanics, however, Werner Heisenberg proposed a radically different view. Drawing from Aristotle’s notion of dynamis or potentia, Heisenberg suggested that quantum entities—wavefunctions—should not be seen as mere probabilities in an observer’s mind, but as ontological potentiae, real potentialities that precede and condition actuality.

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  • A Phenomenological 4E Eliminative Materialism: Consciousness as Neuromuscular Adaptation “In Virtue of Which” Movement Affordances Are Disclosed

    19.03.2025

    In this paper, Arturo Leyva advances a novel framework called “phenomenological 4E eliminative materialism,” integrating two crucial currents in the contemporary philosophy of mind: eliminative materialism and 4E (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) cognition. Traditional eliminative materialism contends that folk-psychological notions—like beliefs, desires, sensations, or qualia—do not map onto scientifically valid entities and will eventually be abandoned. However, mainstream eliminativist approaches tend to privilege a brain-centric account, leaving the influence of bodily and environmental factors relatively unclear.

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  • Do Cats Collapse the Wave Function? Confronting the Measurement Problem with Subliminal Priming

    19.03.2025

    Perhaps no metaphysical question is more fundamental than the question: what is the primary constituent of reality?  Is physicalism correct and only physical things exist, or are the non-physicalist approaches (Dualism, Idealism, Neutral Monism) which consider consciousness to be in some way fundamental, correct?  The Consciousness Causes Collapse (CCC) interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ties consciousness inextricably to the most fundamental workings of physical reality.  It is therefore incompatible with physicalism.  But is this interpretation true? Can it ever be tested, falsified? 

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  • 1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium. November 29, 2024, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Türkiye

    18.12.2024

    Patricia Churchland, the global authority in neurophilosophy, was the main speaker of the symposium, while Prof. Dr. Sultan Tarlacı, who conducts scientific studies in this field, was also among the symposium speakers. Üsküdar University Founding President Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan said that "neurophilosophy is a new field and that much new information will emerge in this field".  At the symposium, Prof. Dr. Lütfü Hanoğlu “Philosophy for Neuroscience, Neuroscience for Philosophy; Cognitive Ontology”, Dr. Saffet Murat Tura “The Penfield Experiment and Neils Bohr's Complementarity Principle: An Epistemological Approach to the Problem of Consciousness”, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Talay Turner “Philosophy of Emotions and Neurophilosophy”, Dr. Merve Arlı Özekes “Neurophilosophy and the Question of Well-Being in Aristotle's Thought”, Dr. Lecturer M. Kaan Özkan “A Neurophilosophical Essay on the Origin of Phenomenal Experience”, Doğa Merve Karataş “Neurophilosophy: A Common Language for Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience” and Dr. Lecturer Baver Demircan “Neurophilosophy and Social Consciousness” gave a talk.

    The '1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium' held at the Üsküdar University South Campus Fuat Sezgin Conference Hall was held with the participation of important names in the field.  The opening speeches of the symposium, which was broadcast live on ÜÜ TV and Üsküdar University Youtube account, were made by Üsküdar University Philosophy Department Head Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Yazıcı, Dean Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Kaynak, Üsküdar University Rector Prof. Dr. Nazife Güngör and Üsküdar University Founding Rector and Chairman of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan. The global authority on neurophilosophy, the symposium's keynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Patricia Churcland, gave a presentation titled "The Origins and New Directions of Neurophilosophy". Churcland addressed the issue of morality and philosophy.

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  • Special Issue Article Invitation: Neurophilosophers on Werner Herzog’s Neuroscience Documentary “Theater of Thought”, Submission deadline: April 30, 2025

    18.12.2024

    Neurophilosophy, the interdisciplinary field dedicated to study the deepest problems of human existence through the lens of neuroscience, genuinely welcomes high-quality works of art addressing philosophy, neuroscience or both.  Since Werner Herzog, one of our time’s greatest filmmakers, came out with a documentary titled “Theater of Thought” on the most exciting advances on neuroscience and neurotechnology, neurophilosophers greeted this intellectual event with special interest. 

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  • Piketty’s Summarized Ideas on Social Inequality in the View of Cosmological Neuroscience by Nandor Ludvig

    09.12.2024

    As neurophilosophy, including cosmological neuroscience, considers its primary mission to address the most important problems of human existence from the vintage point of brain research, the societal/political components of this human existence must also be subjects of neurophilosophy.  Thus, our journal now presents the cosmological neuroscientist Nandor Ludvig’s new paper that offers a neurophilosophical look on the problem of social inequality.

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  • Blur and Knowledge from Falsehood: Neural Network Science and Neurophysiology Meets Epistemology by Jody Azzouni

    06.12.2024

    Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)—that are trained to recognize objects using clear images of them—fail catastrophically at recognizing objects when faced with degraded or blurry imagery. New results by Jang and Tong, and Pramod, Katti and Arun show visual object recognition is optimized by blurring the training images in a way that corresponds to the peripheral blur induced by the human eye. Optimizing recognition of objects this way empirically supports the functional significance of there being a hundred times less photoreceptors dedicated to peripheral vision than in the retina.

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  • Memory of Existing Objects as a Fundamental: Metaphysical and Ontological Component of Fictional Entities by Arturo Leyva Pizano

    05.12.2024

    This paper explores a novel perspective on fictional entities' metaphysical and ontological nature, bridging analytic philosophy and neuroscientific evidence. Revisiting the longstanding debate between fictional realists and antirealists, the paper draws on neuroscientific insights to make a compelling case for fictional realism, proposing that fictional entities are contingent, hylomorphic artifacts fundamentally dependent on the memory of existing objects.

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  • The Role of Consciousness and Emotion in Decision-making: A NeuroPhilosophical Perspective by Akanksha Nambiar

    04.12.2024

    The paper ‘The Role of Consciousness and Emotion in Decision-making: A Neuro-Philosophical Perspective’ highlights the cognitive architecture of human decision-making with a blend of consciousness and emotional domains in socio-economic factors. Humans are engaged in an array of metacognitive activities that surface the elements of reasoning, planning, and executing actions in society. Additionally, they involve being aware consciously or unconsciously while deciding on a particular action, which is fundamental to human existence.

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  • The Modular with Feedback Theory of Free Will by Peter C. Lugten

    04.12.2024

    Many contemporary philosophers of mind and prominent neuroscientists  accept either a hard or a soft version of determinism. In the “hard” version, our behavior is determined by the starting snapshot of the atoms in our brains at birth, thus incompatible with free will. In the “soft”, it is weakly “compatible” with determinism  through either a hypothetical or moral authorship. The feared alternative to determinism  is random, chaotic behavior, dressed up as "incompatibilism" or “libertarianism”.  These ideas are mirrored in current debates about causation, and the level at which it occurs. In this paper, I overturn conventional notions, and propose free will to be compatible, not with determinism, but with chance.

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  • The Absolute Otherness of Authentic Human Identity as a Ghost in a Machine by Feride Zeynep Güder

    04.12.2024

    With the development of invasive neurotechnology such as human enhancement technologies, the discourse of escape practices from this algorithmic surveillance emerges as a significant concern for humanity. The challenges posed by today's rapid digitization are deeply intertwined with algorithmic culture, leading to crises marked by new forms of data surveillance and mental intrusion. New developments in AI and neuroscience pose profound challenges to human cognition and identity. As technology opens pathways into the human brain, the true nature of these technologies is increasingly being questioned. The digitalization of the human mind and nervous system could pave the way for dystopian scenarios that diminish anthropocentric paradigms and allow a new elite class to wield power through algorithmic governance.

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  • Freedom under Naturalistic Dualism by Arturo Macías

    04.12.2024

    This article explores the concept of freedom within the framework of naturalistic dualism, a philosophical system that combines physicalism, subjectivism, and epiphenomenalism. According to physicalism, the evolution of the Universe at all scales is fully determined by the mechanical laws governing elementary particles and fields, whether these laws are deterministic or stochastic, thereby reducing reality to mere chance and necessity. In contrast, consciousness is immediately real, and since Descartes, subjective experience has been the foundation of philosophical inquiry. To address the tension between physicalism and subjectivism, epiphenomenalism suggests that matter evolves autonomously and determines consciousness.

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  • A Handle on Consciousness: The Asymmetry of Consciousness by George Goutos

    04.12.2024

    This exploration, ‘A Handle on Consciousness: The Asymmetry of Consciousness’, delves into the enigma of consciousness, with a particular focus on the deeply personal nature of the first-person experience. While the symmetric challenge of consciousness addresses the general puzzle of why any physical system becomes sentient, the asymmetric challenge investigates why individual, unique perspectives arise—why each person has their own subjective experience. The article argues that existing theories of consciousness fail to explain this asymmetry and urges the need for a framework that accounts for the uniqueness of personal conscious experiences.

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  • Infinite Self Embodied by Sam Breslauer

    04.12.2024

    This paper concludes the Fractal of Self model of consciousness. The first paper argues that consciousness originates as the central feature of the identity of God / IS (infinite Self). From this conjecture, theological and philosophical presuppositions were then presented, allowing us to understand God as the uncreated immaterial singular individual of eternity who is completely aware (self-conscious) of His infinite existence and, thus, unlimited worth. God is understood as being both simple and complex simultaneously. His simplicity is represented by a single memory that defines His whole mind, that is Himself, whereas His complexity takes the form of an infinite hierarchy of fully actualised memories, that are nested within, formed by and logically ordered by the dominant memory of Himself.

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  • The 1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium has concluded, and we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all participants

    30.11.2024

    The 1st International Neurophilosophy Symposium has successfully concluded, and we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all participants. Below is a list of the distinguished speakers and their insightful presentations. We deeply appreciate the engaging discussions and the exchange of knowledge that enriched this event. Thank you for making it a success!

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  • Call nominations for the editorship of the JNphi

    29.03.2024

    Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi) has opened nominations for the editorship. At this time the Journal is looking for an editor who will handle primarily papers in applied free will, neuroethics, neuroaesthetics, neurotheology, spirituality, brain and religion, artificial intelligence, social robots and human-robot interaction with a special emphasis on neuroscience and philosophy.

    Candidates should be available to start receiving manuscripts in mid 2024. Please note that the Committee encourages participation by members of underrepresented groups in the publication process and would particularly welcome such nominees.

    To nominate a candidate, please prepare a supporting statement of one/two pages and provide a current CV. Submit all materials electronically to editor@jneurophilosophy.com

    Deadline for accepting nominations is June 30, after which the Committee will begin its work.

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  • JNφphi Online Advertising information

    29.03.2024
    JNphi Online Advertising information

    JNphi (Journal of Neurophilosophy) is a distinguished online platform that brings together philosophy, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary thought. Advertising with JNphi offers a unique opportunity to reach an intellectually curious, highly engaged, and academically inclined audience interested in ideas, dialogue, and innovation. By placing your advertisement on JNphi, your work, publication, event, or project will be introduced directly to a community that values depth, originality, and critical thinking.

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    JNphi reaches a diverse yet focused audience, including:

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  • The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

    08.12.2023

    There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties. To address this issue, a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco, CA, on December 16, 2012. The group developed a set of recommendations, referred to as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. We invite interested parties across all scientific disciplines to indicate their support by adding their names to this Declaration.

    The outputs from scientific research are many and varied, including: research articles reporting new knowledge, data, reagents, and software; intellectual property; and highly trained young scientists. Funding agencies, institutions that employ scientists, and scientists themselves, all have a desire, and need, to assess the quality and impact of scientific outputs. It is thus imperative that scientific output is measured accurately and evaluated wisely.

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  • Implications of Neuroscience for Ancient Traditional Philosophical Questions

    06.06.2023

    Neurophilosophy is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines neuroscience and philosophy to better understand the nature of the mind and consciousness. It is based on the idea that advances in our understanding of the brain can shed light on longstanding philosophical questions about the nature of the self, free will, consciousness, and the relationship between the mind and the body. At its core, neurophilosophy is concerned with exploring the relationship between the brain and the mind, and understanding how neural processes give rise to mental phenomena such as consciousness, perception, thought, and emotion. It also seeks to address broader philosophical questions related to the nature of the self, free will, and the relationship between mind and body. 

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  • The Posterior Cingulate Cortex Again Forgotten

    07.04.2023

    Koch et al., (2022) 'Repetitive TMS applied to the precuneus stabilizes cognitive status in Alzheimer's disease,' we think that some findings are misunderstood and there are methodological problems. Neuromodulation approaches have been investigated for a long time in the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia. On the other hand, the precuneus region, which is the subject of the research, cannot be considered as an isolated region due to its close neighborhood. Precuneus, it is considered the main center of the default mode network (DMN) like the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). To date, many DLPFC stimulation studies have been performed with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been published. It is difficult to evaluate the effect claimed as a result of the research specific to the precuneus region. Theoretically, the effect can be expected with the excitation of any part of the default network. However, unlike previous rTMS studies that stimulated the DLPFC, the authors chose to stimulate the precuneus, the main center of DMN. φ

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  • How Physics is Reflected in Society and Social Life

    25.03.2023

    Physics today is divided into two fields, a separation which concerns size. The first is classical physics – Newtonian mechanics or Newtonian physics. The foundations of Newtonian physics were laid in 1687. This kind of physics examines matter macroscopically, and has been remarkably successful in explaining macroscopic events and has even attained an iconic status of reliability. What gave it that reliability was that if you knew the causes and variables of an event, you could predict the outcome with certainty. By using the predictive rules of classical Newtonian physics, we can exactly predict the dates of future eclipses of the Sun and the Moon, and know the precise positions of galaxies, stars, planets and satellites. The situation in quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, is very different, however. This second branch of physics is relatively new, dating from the beginning of the 20th century, around two centuries after Newton. New research started because classical physics was unable to explain certain events, and in this way quantum mechanics was born. φ

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  • A Look at the Future and an Open Call for Scientific Community

    25.03.2023

    What we call science is the systematization of information obtained from nature. Nature has had its own laws from the beginning. Some of these laws are easy to express, while others stretch our understanding and even our sense of logic. Our efforts to understand nature and its workings, that is our production of scientific knowledge, will never end. We may never truly understand the workings of nature, or get close to the real truth. Therefore, it is ridiculous to behave as if we knew all of the workings of nature and to say “this is not scientific, it is in conflict with the (known) laws of science”. The clearest example of this is when we see the workings of quantum physics in biological structures. When nature is working, it does not know the laws of our science and doesn’t even take notice of them. Nature even sometimes winks at us with “anomalies”. We learn from nature but we cannot impose on nature the laws we have learned from it.

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  • JNPhi Awards: Graduate and Postgraduate Prizes

    02.09.2022

    JNphi and AnKa Publisher are pleased to announce a new JNphi Postgraduate and GraduateEssay Prize. The deadline for submission is 31 December 2023. The editorial and publishing staff scoured data for all manuscripts published in 2022-2023 to determine the number of times each article was read on jneurophilosophy.com (combined Full-Text and PDF, ePUB usage) for the 12 months following article publication. 

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  • Discover how others interact with your articles: PlumX Metrics

    29.06.2022

    Article metrics (also known as altmetrics), immediately measure awareness and interest and give us new ways to uncover and tell the stories of article. PlumX Metrics are comprehensive, article-level metrics that provide insights beyond traditional citation metrics. 

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    PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with individual pieces of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more) in the online environment. Collectively known as PlumX Metrics, these metrics are divided into five categories to help make sense of the large amount of data involved and enable analysis by comparison. PlumX gathers and collates appropriate research metrics for all types of scholarly research output. In a competitive research landscape, PlumX offers metrics to support your research impact footprint along with analysis to assist in case studies or reporting requirements.

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  • We add a DOI number from Zenodo to each of articles

    14.06.2022

    We will add a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number from Zenodo to each of our articles published. What is a DOI? Similar to a bar code for a physical object, a DOI is a unique alpha numeric string assigned to a digital object, such as an electronic journal, article, report, or thesis. Each DOI is unique and serves as a stable, persistent link to the full-text of an electronic item on the Internet.

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    Zenodo is derived from Zenodotus, the first librarian of the Ancient Library of Alexandria and father of the first recorded use of metadata, a landmark in library history. 

    Why use Zenodo?

    Safe — your research is stored safely for the future in CERN’s Data Centre for as long as CERN exists.
    Trusted — built and operated by CERN and OpenAIRE to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science.
    Citeable — every upload is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), to make them citable and trackable.
    No waiting time — Uploads are made available online as soon as you hit publish.
    Versioning — Easily update your dataset with our versioning feature.
    GitHub integration — Easily preserve your GitHub repository in Zenodo.
    Usage statistics — All uploads display standards compliant usage statistics.

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  • Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) regulations

    19.05.2022

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    We are now complying with Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) regulations and will add ARK number to each of our articles. What is a ARK?  ARKs are similar to DOIs, URNs, and Handles. In contrast, ARKs are cheaper, more flexible, and less centralized. Similar to a bar code for a physical object, a ARK is a unique alphanumeric string assigned to a digital object, such as an electronic journal, article, report, or thesis. Each ARK is unique and serves as a stable, persistent link to the full-text of an electronic item on the Internet. Unlike a URL, a ARK doesn't change over time; even if the item moves to a new location, the ARK stays the same. After joining ARK, we have given a Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for journal as prefix: 25311.

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  • JNphi Online Advertising information

    05.05.2022
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    JNphi (Journal of Neurophilosophy) is a distinguished online platform that brings together philosophy, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary thought. Advertising with JNphi offers a unique opportunity to reach an intellectually curious, highly engaged, and academically inclined audience interested in ideas, dialogue, and innovation. By placing your advertisement on JNphi, your work, publication, event, or project will be introduced directly to a community that values depth, originality, and critical thinking.

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    JNphi reaches a diverse yet focused audience, including:

    • Over 2,000 active members of the JNphi community

    • Philosophy teachers, scholars, and students

    • General readers with a strong interest in philosophy, neurophilosophy, and the study of consciousness

    This readership makes JNphi an ideal space for promoting academic books, journals, conferences, educational programs, research initiatives, and intellectually driven products or services.

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  • Why publish with Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, JNphi?

    22.02.2022

    Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

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    The short name of the journal is JNphi. Phi, φ is short for philosophy, φ is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. φ

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  • Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi) started to publication...

    17.02.2022

    Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (ISSN 1307-6531, registered July 4, 2007) is a dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophy and its relation to the nervous system. It is planned to be published quartely in March, June, September and December. The Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi) publishes review articles, opinion and perspectives, and original articles, book review, commentaries on articles including but not limited to the following fields:

     

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