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Mark Stahlman <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:32:40 -0700
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Gregg &al:

As has been noted many times on this list, psychology just isn't  
"theoretical" anymore.  It has become overwhelmingly "clinical."

But then there is Gregg.  While he is trying to generate a *new*  
"philosophy" (from bits-and-pieces of old philosophies), even he has  
to couch his activity in terms of the clinical implications.  Such is  
psychology today.

Gregg is no philosopher.  He has, however, read Will Durant's 1926  
"The Story of Philosophy."  My guess is that didn't help too much.

Alas, there is a thriving field known as "philosophical psychology"  
and, as it turns out, one branch of that field has been busy working  
on the key topics of perception for quite a while now.

They call themselves "Analytical Thomists" (yes, 100 years ago that  
would have been an oxomoron <g>) and one of their key textbooks is  
available for free (if you don't might tapping into the wonderful  
world of libgen.pw).

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__libgen.pw_item_adv_5a1f05a43a044650f5136f02&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=4TiEKmwGbyfT9EP0D-JrfOJBwtn0YJ9uRinWjy_RPW4&s=kq0SUp4FEvHFVQeg0dQvKgcukYWxRT9HaQnSa8Ra9Qk&e= (or, if this  
doesn't work, just enter the title and get another link for  
downloading.)

Anthony Lisska's 2016 "Aquinas's Theory of Perception: An Analytical  
Reconstruction" is the latest monograph from this group.  It explains  
itself this way --

"This book is the result of several years spent undertaking research  
and writing on the difficult issues surrounding Thomas Aquinas’s  
theory of sensation and perception. It presents an attempt to  
‘reconstruct’ and interpret the texts of Thomas on sense knowledge.  
The emphasis in this inquiry, accordingly, is directed towards  
developing a philosophical analysis of the internal and the external  
senses, with particular reference to the internal sense of the vis  
cogitativa. Approaching the texts of Aquinas from contemporary  
analytic philosophy, this study suggests a modest ‘innate’ or  
‘structured’ interpretation for the role of this inner sense faculty.  
Furthermore, this analysis sheds light on the workings of what Aquinas  
calls the ‘agent intellect’ (intellectus agens) and its corresponding  
cognitive process of abstraction. Inner sense and abstraction are two  
concepts in general Aristotelian epistemology and philosophy of mind  
that require rethinking and tough-minded analysis."

I highly recommend it . . . !!

Mark

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