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From: Mark Stahlman <[log in to unmask]>
To: TOK-SOCIETY-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 9:43 am
Subject: Philosophical Psychology

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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