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 ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1