Elan_vital_Coleridge’s long ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: A dream of joyKerry HandscombAug 19, 2017Aug 19, 2017
Elan_vital_William James and the conscious zombiesIn a previous essay I discussed the views of Henri Bergson on mind-brain parallelism. Bergson argues that the hypothesis of parallelism…Jan 18, 2017Jan 18, 2017
Elan_vital_Review of Re-visioning Psychology by James HillmanIn this essay, I will discuss my response to Re-visioning Psychology by James Hillman. I found this book to be interesting and refreshing…Jan 10, 2017Jan 10, 2017
Elan_vital_Coleridge’s Theory of Imagination in Dejection: An OdeIn this essay I wish to discuss Coleridge’s poem Dejection: An Ode (final version) from the perspective of the theory of imagination that…Jan 5, 20171Jan 5, 20171
Elan_vital_New Year’s Resolution: A more rational lifeSo often in life, there are things we like that are not good for us; vice versa, there are things we do not like that are good for us.Dec 30, 2016Dec 30, 2016
Elan_vital_Bergson on mind-brain parallelismHenri Bergson was a French philosopher, who was at the peak of his influence and creative power very early in the last century. My earlier…Dec 30, 2016Dec 30, 2016
Elan_vital_Bergson’s Qualitative MultiplicityThe topic of Henri Bergson’s first major work, Time and Free Will, is phenomenal experience, or, in Bergson’s words, the immediate data of…Dec 27, 2016Dec 27, 2016