E-LOGOS, 2019 (vol. 26), issue 2

History of Philosophy

Philosophical-Anthropological Contribution by Viktor Frankl - the Human, Meaning, Illness and Health

Roman Adamczyk

E-LOGOS 2019, 26(2):4-13 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.464  

To date, Viktor E. Frankl's philosophical-anthropological heritage has remained overlooked in his extensive creative work that also includes neurologic, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and axiological-ethical research. Frankl's work, however, is imbued with a stand-alone multidimensional concept of the human. In the following article, the latter concept is closely connected with Frankl's primary professional orientation - health care and efforts to heal the ill - and with one of the pivots of Frankl's tragic triad - suffering.

Perception as an Explication of Being in Patočka and Merleau-Ponty

Martin Rabas

E-LOGOS 2019, 26(2):48-74 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.467  

Firstly, the article gives a detailed interpretation of Jan Patočka’s concept of sense-perception expressed in his manuscripts from the years 1939–1945. Secondly, it shows both the original and the more widely shared aspects of Patočka’s concept through their comparison with analogous theses formulated in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s lectures from the year 1953. The starting point of Patočka’s concept of perception is the idea of objective and horizontal intentionality. Its purpose is to establish a descriptive basis for this conception of intentionality and to develop it interpretatively in order to clarify the relationship...

Philosophy of Mind

Conscious Experience and Quantum Consciousness Theory: Theories, Causation, and Identity

Mika Suojanen

E-LOGOS 2019, 26(2):14-34 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.465  

Generally speaking, the existence of experience is accepted, but more challenging has been to say what experience is and how it occurs. Moreover, philosophers and scholars have been talking about mind and mental activity in connection with experience as opposed to physical processes. Yet, the fact is that quantum physics has replaced classical Newtonian physics in natural sciences, but the scholars in humanities and social sciences still operate under the obsolete Newtonian model. There is already a little research in which mind and conscious experience are explained in terms of quantum theory. This article argues that experience is impossible to be...

Meta-awareness as a solution to the problem of Awareness of Intention

Ondřej Bečev

E-LOGOS 2019, 26(2):35-47 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.466  

Awareness of intention is a phenomenal experience characterized as a conscious grasp of an action the agent is about to perform. Classically, it is identified with the moment the participant recalls deciding to move, as reported by the position of a hand on the Libet clock face. Booming research on the sense of agency produced significant knowledge but also a discussion of the methodological weaknesses, including a reliance on the experimental results on the reporting method and the arbitrary features of the reporting methods. Philosophers, on the other hand, discuss the intervening illusions and biases of consciousness or the Cartesian theater fallacy....