J Frazier
Biographic Data
| ID | 891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Frazier |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Frazier |
| SIGNATURE | FRAZIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4357-5061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The promise of unconceived alternatives: Metaphysical explanation in Indian philosophy
The ‘Problem of Unconceived Alternatives’ – essentially the idea that we can never know when a radically different but better explanation is available – goes to the heart of what is involved in trying to understand the cosmos given our limited capacities for observation, and the challenges of interpreting the data. This article rethinks large-scale cosmological interpretation (in effect, ‘metaphysics’) as a process of modelling ‘protectorates’ of…
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function
Maintaining healthy cognitive functioning and delaying cognitive decline in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired adults are major research initiatives for addressing dementia disease burden. Music interventions are promising, non-pharmaceutical treatment options for preserving cognitive function and psychological health in older adults with varying levels of cognitive function. While passive, music interventions have attracted considerable…
What Kind of ‘God’ do Hindu Arguments for the Divine Show? Five Novel Divine Attributes of Brahman
This article describes the ultimate ground of reality, Brahman , as a single power unfolding in concert in all things. It uses counterfactual argumentation to imply that a cosmos must consist of telic causal orders or manifested ‘powers’ as its most granular building block – and that they must be unified into a single whole. It is based on an argument for a single causally-conditioning substrate of all things recorded in India’s classical Sāṃkhya…
Philosophies of being in India I: Pluralism, nihilism, and monism
Is Being a mere sum of separate things variously re-combined over time? Or is it not there at all, arising from nothing more than the projection of a fevered metaphysical imagination? Or might it be the intrawoven phenomenon of all we experience, grounded in a single underlying all-determining nature? This is the first of a pair of articles on the ontological issues that prompted a philosophical fork between pluralism, nihilism, and monism in Ind…
The Destiny of Phenomenology: Gadamer on Value, Globalism, and the Growth of Being
What was the long-durée trajectory implied in the phenomenological movement's original goals, and how might it speak to the work of phenomenologists today?1 This article will approach these questions by looking at Hans-Georg Gadamer's reading of the German phenomenological tradition and its goals of enlivening life, restoring our connection to powerful, guiding value-experiences, and exploring the unfolding of consciousness into ever-new global c…
Monism in Indian philosophy: The coherence, complexity, and connectivity of reality in Śaṃkara's arguments for Brahman
Classical Indian thought contains a number of arguments for monism that reject the cogency of metaphysical pluralism's account of change, development, and causation in the world. They do this on the basis of (a) the coherence of changes that we see in the world, (b) the difficulty of limning absolute distinctions between individuals, and (c) the prerequisite need for some medium explaining causal interactions. This article provides some backgroun…
A hospital’s collaborative arts in health approach to Covid-19
This note from the field outlines how an integrated arts in health department within a hospital created clinical and non-clinical art experiences for patients and providers during COVID-19. Working with a multi-disciplinary team, the Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Houston Methodist established creative arts therapy and arts integration programmes targeting patient and provider experiences during COVID-19. Emphasis is placed on how program…
Ethics in Classical Hindu Philosophy: Provinces of Consequence, Agency, and Value in the Bhagavad Gītā and Other Epic and Śāstric Texts
The idea of a univocal property of 'goodness' is not clearly found in classical Sanskrit sources; instead, a common ethical strategy was to clarify the ontological nature of the self or world in such a way that ethical implications naturally flow from the adjustment in our thinking. This article gives a synoptic reading of sources that treat features of ethics-dispositions, agents, causal systems of effect, and even values themselves-as emergent …
‘The view from above’: A theory of comparative philosophy
What if doing philosophy across cultures is always implicitly a matter of metaphilosophy – of articulating more clearly the nature of philosophy itself? What if it forces us to ‘stand back’ hermeneutically and map out a ‘view from above’ of the underlying fabric of ideas – in their constitutive concepts, their relations to other ways of thinking, and their potential to be configured in alternative fascinating and fruitful ways? This article incor…
Become This Whole World: The Phenomenology of Metaphysical Religion in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6-8
Implicit in Heidegger's 1920-1921 Phenomenology of Religious Life is an account of religion as a radical transformation of the very structures of experience. This article seeks to apply that account to a classical Indian discourse on reality and the self, Chāndogya Upaniṣad chapter six. This classical source-text for two thousand years of Hindu theology advocates a new 'religious life' achieved through phenomenologically reorienting the very stru…
The occurrence of tortoiseshell on a pre-Hispanic Maya mosaic mask
The Dumbarton Oaks Maya mosaic mask is shown to have included tortoiseshell on an earlobe-remarkable since this is the only demonstrated use of this material in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The authors present diagnostic evidence for the presence of tortoiseshell, account for its absence in pre-Hispanic artefacts because of decay, and propose its use (in the mask) as being symbolic of the ocean
Arts and Aesthetics in Hindu Studies
The turn to the arts After decades of textual fixation, the study of Hinduism has taken a 'visual turn', which is unfolding to view a much wider map than the one which earlier scholars had held in their hands. 1 Scholars looking for manuscripts in India have found themselves suddenly awakened to the omnipresence of performed transmissions and visual texts that speak, beyond the limitations of dialect, to all who have eyes to see. There is an incr…
Exploitation of marine turtles in the Indian Ocean
Become This Whole World: The Phenomenology of Metaphysical Religion in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6-8
Implicit in Heidegger's 1920-1921 Phenomenology of Religious Life is an account of religion as a radical transformation of the very structures of experience. This article seeks to apply that account to a classical Indian discourse on reality and the self, Chāndogya Upaniṣad chapter six. This classical source-text for two thousand years of Hindu theology advocates a new 'religious life' achieved through phenomenologically reorienting the very stru…
The occurrence of tortoiseshell on a pre-Hispanic Maya mosaic mask
The Dumbarton Oaks Maya mosaic mask is shown to have included tortoiseshell on an earlobe-remarkable since this is the only demonstrated use of this material in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The authors present diagnostic evidence for the presence of tortoiseshell, account for its absence in pre-Hispanic artefacts because of decay, and propose its use (in the mask) as being symbolic of the ocean
Exploitation of marine turtles in the Indian Ocean
Arts and Aesthetics in Hindu Studies
The turn to the arts After decades of textual fixation, the study of Hinduism has taken a 'visual turn', which is unfolding to view a much wider map than the one which earlier scholars had held in their hands. 1 Scholars looking for manuscripts in India have found themselves suddenly awakened to the omnipresence of performed transmissions and visual texts that speak, beyond the limitations of dialect, to all who have eyes to see. There is an incr…
The occurrence of tortoiseshell on a pre-Hispanic Maya mosaic mask
The Dumbarton Oaks Maya mosaic mask is shown to have included tortoiseshell on an earlobe-remarkable since this is the only demonstrated use of this material in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The authors present diagnostic evidence for the presence of tortoiseshell, account for its absence in pre-Hispanic artefacts because of decay, and propose its use (in the mask) as being symbolic of the ocean
Become This Whole World: The Phenomenology of Metaphysical Religion in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6-8
Implicit in Heidegger's 1920-1921 Phenomenology of Religious Life is an account of religion as a radical transformation of the very structures of experience. This article seeks to apply that account to a classical Indian discourse on reality and the self, Chāndogya Upaniṣad chapter six. This classical source-text for two thousand years of Hindu theology advocates a new 'religious life' achieved through phenomenologically reorienting the very stru…
‘The view from above’: A theory of comparative philosophy
What if doing philosophy across cultures is always implicitly a matter of metaphilosophy – of articulating more clearly the nature of philosophy itself? What if it forces us to ‘stand back’ hermeneutically and map out a ‘view from above’ of the underlying fabric of ideas – in their constitutive concepts, their relations to other ways of thinking, and their potential to be configured in alternative fascinating and fruitful ways? This article incor…
A hospital’s collaborative arts in health approach to Covid-19
This note from the field outlines how an integrated arts in health department within a hospital created clinical and non-clinical art experiences for patients and providers during COVID-19. Working with a multi-disciplinary team, the Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Houston Methodist established creative arts therapy and arts integration programmes targeting patient and provider experiences during COVID-19. Emphasis is placed on how program…
Ethics in Classical Hindu Philosophy: Provinces of Consequence, Agency, and Value in the Bhagavad Gītā and Other Epic and Śāstric Texts
The idea of a univocal property of 'goodness' is not clearly found in classical Sanskrit sources; instead, a common ethical strategy was to clarify the ontological nature of the self or world in such a way that ethical implications naturally flow from the adjustment in our thinking. This article gives a synoptic reading of sources that treat features of ethics-dispositions, agents, causal systems of effect, and even values themselves-as emergent …
Monism in Indian philosophy: The coherence, complexity, and connectivity of reality in Śaṃkara's arguments for Brahman
Classical Indian thought contains a number of arguments for monism that reject the cogency of metaphysical pluralism's account of change, development, and causation in the world. They do this on the basis of (a) the coherence of changes that we see in the world, (b) the difficulty of limning absolute distinctions between individuals, and (c) the prerequisite need for some medium explaining causal interactions. This article provides some backgroun…
The Destiny of Phenomenology: Gadamer on Value, Globalism, and the Growth of Being
What was the long-durée trajectory implied in the phenomenological movement's original goals, and how might it speak to the work of phenomenologists today?1 This article will approach these questions by looking at Hans-Georg Gadamer's reading of the German phenomenological tradition and its goals of enlivening life, restoring our connection to powerful, guiding value-experiences, and exploring the unfolding of consciousness into ever-new global c…
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group Music Creativity Intervention for Adults with Varying Cognitive Function
Maintaining healthy cognitive functioning and delaying cognitive decline in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired adults are major research initiatives for addressing dementia disease burden. Music interventions are promising, non-pharmaceutical treatment options for preserving cognitive function and psychological health in older adults with varying levels of cognitive function. While passive, music interventions have attracted considerable…
What Kind of ‘God’ do Hindu Arguments for the Divine Show? Five Novel Divine Attributes of Brahman
This article describes the ultimate ground of reality, Brahman , as a single power unfolding in concert in all things. It uses counterfactual argumentation to imply that a cosmos must consist of telic causal orders or manifested ‘powers’ as its most granular building block – and that they must be unified into a single whole. It is based on an argument for a single causally-conditioning substrate of all things recorded in India’s classical Sāṃkhya…
Philosophies of being in India I: Pluralism, nihilism, and monism
Is Being a mere sum of separate things variously re-combined over time? Or is it not there at all, arising from nothing more than the projection of a fevered metaphysical imagination? Or might it be the intrawoven phenomenon of all we experience, grounded in a single underlying all-determining nature? This is the first of a pair of articles on the ontological issues that prompted a philosophical fork between pluralism, nihilism, and monism in Ind…
The promise of unconceived alternatives: Metaphysical explanation in Indian philosophy
The ‘Problem of Unconceived Alternatives’ – essentially the idea that we can never know when a radically different but better explanation is available – goes to the heart of what is involved in trying to understand the cosmos given our limited capacities for observation, and the challenges of interpreting the data. This article rethinks large-scale cosmological interpretation (in effect, ‘metaphysics’) as a process of modelling ‘protectorates’ of…
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