Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Editor’s Preface xi
Editor’s Introduction xxv
	Noetics and the Scientific Revolution of the 20th Century xxvii
	The Human Order of Nature xxix
	Evolution of Homo Sapiens and Human Development  xxxiii
	Self-Knowledge and Thinking about the Self  xxxvii
	Speculation and Architectonic, Art and Literature xxxviii
	Language, Linguistics and Semantics xxxix
	Noetics and Neuroscience  xliii
	Thinking and Computation, Noesis and Aesthesis xlvi
	Durkheim on the Social, Weber on Value xlviii
	Identity, Persona, Self xlix
	Obiter Dicta  lii
Preface lv
Introduction: On Intellection and the Intellectuals  lvii
Part I: Noetic Science 1
	The Science of Noetics 1
		Thinking and Knowing, Thought and Knowledge 18
		The Determination of Thinking and Knowing 30
		Noetics and Human Learning. The Example of Chess 39
		On Wisdom, Knowledge, Thought, and Doubt 43
		On Mental Economy 44
		Information and Knowledge 48
		Mental Capacities 51
		Mind and Consciousness 55
	Noetic Science. Principles 69
		Noetics, General and Particular 80
		Dyads 87
		Speculative Architectonic 151
		The Sources of Noetic Science. System of Nature and Mind 157
		On What Is Said and Left Unsaid in Thought 171
		Prehistory and History of Noetics 186
		On Skill and Instrument, Techne and Organon 198
	On Method of Noetics 229
	Noesis, Will, and Desire in Thought 242
	Noetics, Philosophical Psychology and Empirical Psychology 256
Part II: On the Question of Progress in Noesis 263
	Natural and Human Science 263
	Taxonomic and Mathematical Science; On the Question of Progress in Philosophy 268
	Science and Common Sense 270
		Science, Reason, Contemplation, and Feeling 279
		Science, Explanation, and Description of the World 281
	A Note on History of Science, Ancient and Modern 298
	The History of Science as a Problem of Noesis and of Noetics 307
	External and Internal Factors in the Rise of Science 316
Part III: Philosophy of Science as a Problem of Noesis and Noetics 327
	Science and Philosophy of Science as Working Out of Systems, Methods and Patterns 327
	Reductionism as a Problem in Science and the Philosophy of Science 333
	Argument and Logic 338
		Reason and Logic 340
		Reason and Enlightenment 341
		Formal Laws and Substantive Principles of Thinking and Knowing 349
	Psychologism, and Some Further Thoughts about Logic and Paradoxes 352
	On Formal and Substantial Paradoxes; Insolubilia 358
	Philosophy and Science as the Measure 359
		Early Science and Ancient Society 361
	Causes and Conditions of Phenomena 363
	On Meaning 373
	Theory of the Word 376
		Relation of Speech Sounds and Meaning; Theory of the Phoneme 409
		Langue, Langage, Parole 412
		Internal Speech, Vocal Gestures, and Speech Treated in Therapy; Their Relation to Language 413
		Signals, Signs, and Symbols 415
		Speech and Writing 418
		Language as Ergon and Energeia  422
	Semantics and Intellection 424
	Human Universals, Universal Grammar 426
Part IV: Noesis and Society 435
	Noesis and Society: A. 435
	Noesis and Society: B. Objectivity and Subjectivity 446
	Noesis and Society. C. Civil Society 460
	Noesis and Society: D. Professionalization of Knowledge 464
	Self and Identity. Persona. Remembering and Forgetting 478
		Velazquez and the Problem of Identity 491
		Self and the Problem of Mental Structure 492
		Reality and Illusion of the Self 499
		The Central Governor of the Mind 504
	World Views, Fictions, and Obiter Dicta 507
		Zeitgeist and World View 511
		The Scientific World View 517
		The Anthropological World View 522
		Obiter Dicta of Scientists 526
		Obiter Dictum and World View of Science 529
	Figurative Discourse 530
		Metaphor and Catachresis 541
		Human Science and Metaphor  543
	Aisthesis and Noesis 549
		Note on Semantics in Art History and Art Philosophy 559
	On Imitation 571
Appendix A: Archeology of Noesis Based on the Evidence of Language and Fable 583
Appendix B: Spinoza’s Distinction between Internal and External Mental Processes 591
Bibliography 595
Index 611