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One-sentence Summaries of My Articles: Part I


Scholars have a tendency to say in 5,000 or 10,000 words what it would take ordinary human beings around 100 or 200 words to say. I am no exception. So here are some of those articles, each boiled down to a sentence or so.

1. "Existential Biology: Kurt Goldstein's Functionalist Rendering of the Human Body," which was published in 2020 by Journal of Consciousness Studies.

 


2. "Contemporary Neuroscience Humanizes: A Look at Cortical Bilateral... etc.," which was published by The Humanistic Psychologist in 2014.

3. "Phenomenology Without Correlationism: Husserl's Hyletic Material," which was published by Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology in 2015.




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