Ralph D Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5893220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph D Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark Atlanta University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4392-0061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Is Your Brain on Fascism (And How Neural Plasticity Can Lead to Rewiring)
A cursory understanding of a few of the brain substrates of vulnerability to fascist propaganda can help us answer a question that so far has remained mysterious. Why does right-wing misinformation travel faster in social media than factual information, and also faster than left-wing or politically neutral misinformation? We bring together three crucial areas of inquiry: The misinformation ecosphere of social media; the brain substrates for vulne…
An Interview Regarding Enactivism
Preview: / Ralph D. Ellis interviewed by Samuel Maruszewski / Ralph D. Ellis, one of the strongest advocates of the enactivist approach to consciousness and cognitive theory, began his academic career as a phenomenologist, earning the Ph.D. at Duquesne University under Andre Schuwer, John Sallis and Amedeo Giorgi, and has taught at Clark Atlanta University since 1985. He subsequently received a post-doctoral M.S. in Public Affairs at Georgia Stat…
Running and the Paradox of Suffering
What motivates the voluntary suffering of training for a long-distance run -or any other difficult athletic skill? Long-term pleasure cannot adequately explain this seemingly masochistic activity. On the contrary, I argue that pleasure, or "reinforcement," is not the only ultimate motivator of behavior. Each of the emotion systems defines its own intrinsic values, including an innate "play" system and an innate "exploratory drive" that is include…
Neuroscience as a Human Science
In what sense is “Rationality” a criterion for emotional self-awareness
Phenomenology-Friendly Neuroscience
Ray Jackendoff's phenomenology of language as a refutation of the 'appendage' theory of consciousness
Since Jackendoff has shown that language facilitates abstract and complex thought by making possible subtle manipulations of the focus of attention, and since the kind of attention relevant here is attention to aspects of intentional objects in conscious awareness, it follows that the abstract and complex thinking that language facilitates owes much to the working of a conscious process. This, however, conflicts with Jackendoff's view of consciou…
The imagist approach to inferential thought patterns
Tmagists' hold that inferential thinking is built up from combinations of sensory and sensorimotor images in various patterns and modalities, and that the images are a more basic mental and neurophysiological operation than the logical thinking and conceptualization that are built up front them. 'Computationalists' hold just the opposite view — that images result from previous inferential processing which is more basic than the images. Suppose we…
Quantifying distributive justice
Toward a reconciliation of liberalism and communitarianism
Afferent-efferent connections and ?neutrality-modifications? in perceptual and imaginative consciousness
General Assistance Payments and Crime Rates in the United States
Fairness and the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
Existentialism and the demonstrability of ethical theories
Prereflective consciousness and the process of symbolization
Prereflective consciousness and the process of symbolization
Existentialism and the demonstrability of ethical theories
General Assistance Payments and Crime Rates in the United States
Fairness and the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
Afferent-efferent connections and ?neutrality-modifications? in perceptual and imaginative consciousness
Toward a reconciliation of liberalism and communitarianism
Quantifying distributive justice
The imagist approach to inferential thought patterns
Tmagists' hold that inferential thinking is built up from combinations of sensory and sensorimotor images in various patterns and modalities, and that the images are a more basic mental and neurophysiological operation than the logical thinking and conceptualization that are built up front them. 'Computationalists' hold just the opposite view — that images result from previous inferential processing which is more basic than the images. Suppose we…
Ray Jackendoff's phenomenology of language as a refutation of the 'appendage' theory of consciousness
Since Jackendoff has shown that language facilitates abstract and complex thought by making possible subtle manipulations of the focus of attention, and since the kind of attention relevant here is attention to aspects of intentional objects in conscious awareness, it follows that the abstract and complex thinking that language facilitates owes much to the working of a conscious process. This, however, conflicts with Jackendoff's view of consciou…
Phenomenology-Friendly Neuroscience
In what sense is “Rationality” a criterion for emotional self-awareness
Neuroscience as a Human Science
Running and the Paradox of Suffering
What motivates the voluntary suffering of training for a long-distance run -or any other difficult athletic skill? Long-term pleasure cannot adequately explain this seemingly masochistic activity. On the contrary, I argue that pleasure, or "reinforcement," is not the only ultimate motivator of behavior. Each of the emotion systems defines its own intrinsic values, including an innate "play" system and an innate "exploratory drive" that is include…
An Interview Regarding Enactivism
Preview: / Ralph D. Ellis interviewed by Samuel Maruszewski / Ralph D. Ellis, one of the strongest advocates of the enactivist approach to consciousness and cognitive theory, began his academic career as a phenomenologist, earning the Ph.D. at Duquesne University under Andre Schuwer, John Sallis and Amedeo Giorgi, and has taught at Clark Atlanta University since 1985. He subsequently received a post-doctoral M.S. in Public Affairs at Georgia Stat…
This Is Your Brain on Fascism (And How Neural Plasticity Can Lead to Rewiring)
A cursory understanding of a few of the brain substrates of vulnerability to fascist propaganda can help us answer a question that so far has remained mysterious. Why does right-wing misinformation travel faster in social media than factual information, and also faster than left-wing or politically neutral misinformation? We bring together three crucial areas of inquiry: The misinformation ecosphere of social media; the brain substrates for vulne…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Consciousness (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Political science (4 works)