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Probabilities of Conditionals
Authors: Mandelkern Matthew 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter develops a theory of the probabilities of conditionals in the context of the bounded theory, showing that the bounded theory has the right combination of freedom (via context sensitivity) and constraint (via bounds) to account for a wide variety of patterns involving the probabilities of conditionals. The chapter in particular shows that the bounded theory can account for judgments that (i) the probability of simple conditionals is, as a default matter, the probability of their consequents conditional on their antecedents, but that (ii) there are systematic exceptions to that generalization in the right kinds of contexts; and that (iii) the probability of ‘If A, then if B, then C’ is equal to the probability of ‘If A and B, then C’, not the probability of ‘If B, then C’ conditional on A.
Poetry and the Built Environment
Authors: Fowler Elizabeth 
Published: September 2024

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This new approach to criticism recognizes poetry as one among the many arts of the built environment. The premise is that poems are—like sculptures, paintings, gardens, and architecture—cultural artifacts designed for human bodies. The phrase “the flesh of art” signifies the sphere of interaction between our bodies and such artifacts; it signals the phenomenological nature of the approach. Providing models for the practical criticism of poems that are both phenomenologically alert and comparative across media, Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of Art demonstrates art’s ability to illuminate and alter our understandings and practices of spatiality, movement, sensation, emotion, genre, relation, and presence. A series of case studies explores a range of works by poets from Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton to Seamus Heaney and Tracy K. Smith and by sculptors and architects from Jean de Touyl and Nicholas Stone to Antonin Mercié and Kara Walker, discovering how art strives to develop the habitus of those who encounter it—how it offers to enflesh, acculturate, and orient us within social space. This book about poetics takes place, in short, at the juncture between aesthetics and politics. It concludes with 43 theses in manifesto. It includes 35 images and many whole poems. In poetry, it is argued, we see how, especially when the transparency and sensibleness of the world is under stress, art equips us with strategies for transformation.
Standing in the Historical Space of Injury
Authors: Fowler Elizabeth 
Published: September 2024

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Part Five, Virtual Injuries and Rewards, elucidates the kinds of diminishments and aggrandizements that art’s actions effect in us, exposing their social consequences, and then returns us to the topic of art’s relation to habitus. The virtual emotions, actions, and ideas we grapple with in art (such as the grief considered in Chapters 7 and 8) are not inert but move and shape us in consequential ways, influencing our health, social standing, prospects, and ability to affiliate with or disentangle ourselves from social forms. The insults and rewards perpetuated by the racist structures we inherit from the transatlantic slave trade, which arguably moved the medieval world into modernity, are the occasion of two final chapters. Chapter 9 considers a colonial photograph of Jamaican sugar laborers and a Tracy K. Smith poem about the photograph that draws on Milton’s postural politics (Chapter 4). In these worrisome artifacts, ductus is powerful in savory and unsavory ways that reveal how profoundly art engages our proprioception, stimulates contradictory responses, and makes us aware of what we can choose and what we can’t among the meanings of our sensations. The flesh of art engages us by means of its ductility and intervenes in the hierarchies of social subordination and elevation that place us with respect to one another in social space.
The self as avatar: an active inference account of ego dissolution
Authors: Gerrans Philip 
Published: September 2024

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Daniel Dennett famously argued that the self is a ‘centre of narrative gravity’. In fact, the self is best thought of as a centre of interoceptive gravity whose homeostatic and affective experiences are subsequently interpreted and communicated in a narrative. This idea explains feelings of persistence and unity in the normal case and changed nature of self-awareness in psychedelic experience. It also fits the neurocomputational evidence about the nature of ego dissolution. The ‘avatar’ or self-model represents this centre of gravity. It is implemented by a self-maintaining pattern of activity in circuitry that integrates and coordinates bodily, affective, and narrative/conceptual processes to optimize organismic function. The feeling of unity and persistence emerges from activity in this circuitry. The narrative ‘I’ reports but does not create this feeling which provides a locus of control and concern.
Disintegrating and reintegrating the self—(in)flexible self-models in depersonalization and psychedelic experiences
Authors: Ciaunica Anna , Safron Adam 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines the feeling of ‘losing’ the sense of familiarity with one’s self and body in depersonalization and psychedelic experiences through an ‘active inference’ lens. It is suggested that psychedelic-induced experiences may involve a stance with radically altered prior expectations, providing opportunities for flexibly modulating self- and world models. Specifically, higher control in the acquisition of new self- and world models may enhance the plasticity of one’s perceptual and sensorimotor experiences. This new gained flexibility, it is claimed, may allow the individual to ‘leave behind’ certain habits—perceptual rigidities that hold the person ‘stuck’ in certain behavioural patterns. By contrast, depersonalization may be linked to lower control in the acquisition of new self- and world models, leading to non-flexible (rigid) (dis)integration of ordinary/habitual self experiences, and a consequent feeling of being ‘stuck’ in one’s mind.
Psychedelics: a window into perceptual processing
Authors: Brogaard Berit , Gatzia Dimitria Electra 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter presents findings indicating that psilocybin-induced visual distortions and impaired executive functioning originate in temporary disruptions of attentional mechanisms. It then revisits a predictive processing account of neural processing and argues that this lacks the resources to provide a unified model of the perceptual mechanisms underpinning psychedelic experiences caused by classic hallucinogens such as psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and mescaline. Lastly, an alternative theory of perceptual processing is proposed—the Gist Theory of Perception—that can better explain how the psilocybin-induced disruptions of attentional mechanisms may elicit psychedelic experiences.
Classic psychedelics in translational research: addressing epistemic challenges from bench to bedside
Authors: Mattu Jaipreet , Sullivan Jacqueline 
Published: September 2024

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In the last decade alone, preliminary evidence has suggested that classic psychedelics (CPs) can rapidly and durably ameliorate symptoms and cognitive deficits associated with depression. However, the mechanisms by which CPs work in the brain are not well understood. Rodent translational research, in which experimental findings from rodents are used to understand the human brain, is fundamental in achieving this goal. This chapter focuses on a representative subset of human and rodent studies investigating CPs for depression, including the various lines of research that have been initiated to understand how they work. It is shown that in addition to epistemic challenges that scientists face in translating findings from rodents to humans, there is a mismatch between experimental approaches used in human clinical trials and rodent translational studies. Thus, current experimental practices are not conducive to mechanistic discovery. The chapter concludes with a set of positive proposals to expedite the drive to translate CPs into effective treatments for depression.
The psychedelic experience: a new perspective, a new attitude towards the world
Authors: Ballesteros Virginia 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter provides a philosophical account of the potential of the psychedelic experience to treat depression. The main thesis is that such a potential lies in the possibility of psychedelics allowing us to experience a world diametrically opposed to that of depression: the psychedelic experience can be world-shifting. Building on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s insights and notions of aesthetics, ethics, and mysticism, the world in depression is characterized as a world devoid of beauty and meaning, from which we feel disconnected. On the contrary, the psychedelic experience immerses us in a world full of beauty and meaning, to which we feel connected. It is by changing our perspective that our whole world and attitude towards it changes, opening up new possibilities for action, as well as a new evaluation of the contingencies of our biographical self and our relationships with others.
Psychedelics and naturalistic spirituality
Authors: Steinhart Eric 
Published: September 2024

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Spirituality at least requires learning, accepting, and adapting to ultimate reality. Although psychedelic experiences are thought to facilitate these aspects of spirituality, those experiences are only related to ultimate reality by way of interpretations. This chapter uses naturalism to evaluate three interpretations. The first interpretation, which is religious, says that psychedelic experiences reveal a world of non-natural spirits. For naturalists, this interpretation is false, and provides no genuine spiritual benefits. The second interpretation involves physicalistic naturalism. Although it has excellent scientific support, it probably cannot account for some important spiritual aspects of psychedelic experiences. The third interpretation involves Platonic naturalism. It has good scientific support, and accounts for all the spiritual aspects of psychedelic experiences. But the chapter ends with a word of caution: psychedelic spirituality demands metaphysical pluralism.
Suicide and the Modern Subject
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter examines how the problem of suicide became a nodal point of Western political philosophy around which the hegemonic qualities of the modern subject were worked out. Building on Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant, it analyzes how self-directed violence came to constitute the exterior limits of selfhood. Writing during the formation of a new world order centered on the triad of the modern state, modern market, and modern “man,” these thinkers have drawn on the act of self-destruction—and their contemporaries’ resorting to such acts—to work out the dominant characteristics of subjectivity, such as the rationality of self-preservation, the inscription of personhood as property, and moral autonomy. Reading these thinkers by foregrounding suicide, this chapter unpacks the equivalence between martyrdom and madness, traces the subversiveness of self-destruction by the enslaved, and problematizes the absolutization of the principle of humanity.
On “Futures Pitilessly Blocked and Passions Violently Choked”
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter takes as its starting point Durkheim’s work on suicide, especially his category of “fatalistic suicide” that he relegates to a footnote. The chapter examines the elisions of this choice and their implications. Building on those elisions, it reconstructs a global, subterranean, and subversive history that passes through the acts of self-harm and self-destruction performed by enslaved Africans during the transatlantic crossing and across plantations in the Americas, hunger strikes of woman suffragists in England’s prisons in the early twentieth century, and Gandhian fasting practices that took place as part of the Indian anti-colonial struggle throughout the 1930s and 1940s. With each moment, the chapter discusses the meanings that corporeal acts of resistance and refusal have entailed to bring out continuities as well as differences. Together, these critical fragments constitute a radical lineage of modernity that is marginalized, distorted, or erased from the dominant narrative of history as progress.
From the Maze to Guantánamo
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter interprets Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed film Hunger in light of its release in a political conjuncture marked by the hunger strikes in Guantánamo Bay Prison. It reads the film’s theoretically suggestive and moving portrait of the struggles in the Maze, centering on the figure of Bobby Sands, in conversation with Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s influential book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, as a defining text of the Frankfurt School and the New Left. It distills their shared critique of Western civilization, which troubles a progressive philosophy of history, and of the sovereignty of the subject as the building block of Western modernity. Interrogating the renunciative predilections and instrumental rationality of the modern subject, the chapter presents how disembodiment emerging in carceral and colonial spaces constitutes a violent form of de-subjectivation. The chapter unpacks the temporalities of sovereignty and sacrifice to delineate the irruption of an insurgent subjectivity.
The Body Anterior
Authors: Bargu Banu 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter explores the role of the body in Marxian materialism. It discusses the crucial contributions of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in bringing the body into the domain of philosophy, and argues that these contributions were often overshadowed by their emphasis on the commodity form and the subsequent Marxist tradition’s embrace of a more abstract conception of productive forces and relations of production. The chapter offers a reading of Marx’s Capital that places bodily suffering at the core of his critique of capitalism. It argues that the body figures not simply as the object of exploitation, but also the site for the lived experience of suffering to be translated into elementary forms of resistance. This chapter also draws a line that connects Marx with Michel Foucault and Nicos Poulantzas on the shared premise of the irreducible anteriority of the body, its vital powers and capacities, to relations of domination.
Creating Something Extraordinary
Authors: Reeder Jennifer 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter focuses on often neglected or marginalized artistry of Latter-day Saint women. From utility to decoration, these material forms of quilts, hair art, and buildings reflect an engaged and empowered sisterhood within the Latter-day Saint faith. As such, these works of folk art are, in the estimation of this chapter, a collective binding force. They are less about elevating a specific creator and more about a shared sense of their use or charm, even showcasing resourcefulness. While emphasizing ancestry and kinship, these artworks also steered the Saints toward refinement and beautification on a vernacular level.
The Paris Art Mission
Authors: Jones Gibbs Linda 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter tells the story of dedicated Latter-day Saint artists in Utah who were sent to Paris as missionaries with the unique objective of learning the latest artistic techniques to provide mural paintings for the Salt Lake temple. The chapter places this LDS art and temple construction within the larger art historical context of patronage, salons, and exhibitions, which in both Paris and Utah played a significant role in shifting dominant paradigms and meeting political needs. By following the artists’ experience in Europe and the expectations and encouragement from Utah, the chapter uses the concept of patronage to flesh out a more nuanced picture of the international influence on Latter-day Saint landscape art at the time.
LDS Artists and the Art Students League of New York
Authors: Nelson Glen 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter traces a vivid picture of the Art Students League in the early twentieth century as it related to a booming moment of industrialization, attitudes surrounding art and the use of live nude models, and the league’s influence on Latter-day Saint artistic culture. As several former students of the Art Students League returned to Utah and pursued careers as artists and professors, they helped perpetuate the unorthodox teachings of New York. The chapter makes a case for the role of outsider art scenes in helping to construct a politics of respectability within the budding LDS colonization of the American West. Where Paris was a strategy to adapt a largely accepted Western canon of art toward crafting an image for a relatively new faith, New York became a means to integrate the modernity of French and German schools into a seemingly more progressive art literacy in the West.
Latter-day Saint Feminism and Art
Authors: Beardsley Amanda K. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter continues the historical recognition of women’s labor by defining Mormon feminist art through the lens of the genealogical archive. Though the exploration of archives and the use of oral histories are well-known techniques within feminist studies, allowing researchers to tell histories generally untold, the Latter-day Saint impulse to record, delineate ancestry, and bear record is seen as central to LDS feminist contemporary art. Some of the pieces the chapter treats directly engage with genealogy and gender, while others testify to the mundane and material tasks women undertake to express themselves, write themselves into history, and explore their identities as women of faith.
Toward a Latter-Day Saint Contemporary Art
Authors: Westfall Chase 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter thinks through art exhibitions as forms of activism, where religious identity might be explored and solidified in generative ways. After considering the political backdrop around which curators were creating exhibitions in the 2010s, this chapter makes a case for a more socially engaged role of the curator, exhibitions, and artists in shaping public thought. A comparative analysis between LDS exhibitions and those of more mainstream American institutions demonstrates an opportunity for Mormon curators to create more provocative narratives. The chapter surveys past efforts, such as Fifteen Year Expanse, to suggest possible futures of Mormon art that might be more vulnerable, caring, and radically open to individuality and the diverse experiences of a shared faith tradition.
Phases of Work and Associated Skills and Tasks in Group Work Practice
Authors: Knight Carolyn 
Published: September 2024

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In this chapter the author introduces the core skills of group work practice. This discussion is organized around stages of the group’s development: preliminary, beginning/engagement, work, and ending. In the preliminary phase, practitioners focus on creating a group that maximizes the likelihood that mutual aid will occur. This includes tasks associated with composition, identifying group goals and purpose, and decisions about structure (number and length of sessions, etc.). Skills in the beginning phase encourage members to connect with one another and recognize their underlying commonalities, creating a group climate that promotes members’ work. Work phase skills help members accomplish their mutually agreed-upon goals and address impediments to this, which include in-group interpersonal dynamics. The final set of skills assists members in ending with one another and with the leader and helps them reflect on their work together, their growth, and future work.
A Dozen “Musts” Students and Practitioners New to the Modality Should Know Before They Start Their Group Work Experience
Authors: Greif Geoffrey L. , Knight Carolyn 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter is geared to those who are new to the group modality. Students and practitioners unfamiliar with group work often do not understand its unique benefits and thus hold misconceptions about this modality. The authors synthesize information discussed in the previous three chapters and provide suggestions and recommendations that prepare novice group workers both personally and professionally to engage in group work. This chapter—in conjunction with the first three—will enhance readers’ willingness to facilitate groups and their confidence that they have the requisite skills and knowledge to do so. Considerations that are discussed include understanding the leader’s responsibilities for ensuring that the group culture supports its work, the importance of cultural competence and humility, the need to attend to the group as the client, and the relationship between a group structure and its purpose and member goals.
Group Work with Individuals Experiencing First-Episode Schizophrenia
Authors: Miller Rachel , Mason Susan E. 
Published: September 2024

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This chapter describes the use of group work in helping newly diagnosed clients optimize their functioning. It includes examples of how mutual aid groups function, as well as the common themes that arise in these groups: trauma, the need for psychoeducation, insight into psychotic symptoms, cognitive and negative symptoms, treatment adherence, stigma, and suicidal ideation. Examples of group activities are explained and include warm-up exercises, doubling, and mirroring. The authors also discuss how leaders use psychoeducation and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help members develop communication, cognitive, and empathy skills. The importance of and need to respect cultural, ethnic, sexual, and socioeconomic diversity are discussed, as are the benefits of group rituals, fun, and creativity. This chapter also addresses the difficulties that may arise in these groups, including dropouts, a suicide or death of a group member, aggressive behavior, substance misuse, and relapses.
Developing a Safe Space
Authors: Skolnik Sari , Skolnik Louise 
Published: September 2024

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Women who experience interpersonal violence face physical, social, and psychological trauma. The small group process, with its key dynamic of mutual aid, can provide the safety and support needed to restore social and emotional well-being. In helping one another, members regain the sense of power, self-efficacy, and self-determination necessary for healing. Mutual aid and experiential approaches are illustrated through the presentation of a psychoeducational group and a support group. Group themes, intervention approaches, practice skills, and challenges are discussed.
The Invincible Black Women Group
Authors: Jones Martinque K. , Pritchett-Johnson Brandi , Gaskin-Cole Gabriella , Christian Janay 
Published: September 2024

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Black college women have culturally distinct mental health concerns but may be hesitant to seek counseling despite their need. To address this concern, the authors present a culturally responsive outreach and group intervention for Black college women, entitled “Invincible Black Women.” In this chapter the authors describe the group, discuss common themes that emerge in the group, and present critical techniques for group implementation.