Mind’s Eye: Conscious Perception and Phenomenological Unity A Comparative Study Between Augustinianism and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Roy Rituparna
Civitas Augustiniana 2024 DOI: 10.21747/civitas/11a1 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Argues that Augustine's notion of intentio shows the soul or will to be the initiator and regulator of conscious awareness, and that this account aligns with contemporary notions of the phenomenology of particularity and object-posting, supporting the inclusion of cognitive phenomenology in conscious perception. |
Abstract
n contemporary theories, it is thought that the subject essentially initiates conscious perception. St. Augustine is one of the philosophers who acknowledges this idea via his active perception notion. In Section 1, I will address Augustine’s distinction between vision or visio and cognition or cogitatio. In Section 2, I will focus on Augustine’s notion of intentio to demonstrate the supremacy of the soul or the will of the soul as both the initiator and regulator of conscious awareness. In section 3, I will discuss the contemporary notions of the phenomenology of particularity and object-posting as theories to uphold the inclusion of cognitive phenomenology in the domain of conscious perception. Finally, I will show how these notions of perception perfectly align with conscious awareness as two conspicuous processes of polyadic relations depicted in De Trinitate.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on philosophy of mind, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychosis as a state of aberrant salience: a framework linking biology, phenomenology, and pharmacology in schizophrenia. | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| From dopamine to salience to psychosis--linking biology, pharmacology and phenomenology of psychosis. | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How do the brain's time and space mediate consciousness and its different dimensions? Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC). | 2017 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The phenomenology of deep brain stimulation-induced changes in OCD: an enactive affordance-based model. | 2013 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Looking for the Self: Phenomenology, Neurophysiology and Philosophical Significance of Drug-induced Ego Dissolution | 2017 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |