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125Unconscious representations 2: Towards an integrated cognitive architecture.Axiomathes 24 (1): 19-43. 2014.The representational nature of human cognition and thought in general has been a source of controversies. This is particularly so in the context of studies of unconscious cognition, in which representations tend to be ontologically and structurally segregated with regard to their conscious status. However, it appears evolutionarily and developmentally unwarranted to posit such segregations, as,otherwise, artifact structures and ontologies must be concocted to explain them from the viewpoint of t…Read more
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233Unconscious representations 1: Belying the traditional model of human cognition.Axiomathes 23 (4): 1-19. 2013.The traditional model of human cognition (TMHC) postulates an ontological and/or structural gap between conscious and unconscious mental representations. By and large, it sees higher-level mental processes as commonly conceptual or symbolic in nature and therefore conscious, whereas unconscious, lower-level representations are conceived as non-conceptual or sub-symbolic. However, experimental evidence belies this model, suggesting that higher-level mental processes can be, and often are, carried…Read more
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85Putting the horse before the cart: A pragmatist analysis of knowledgeTrans/Form/Ação 34 (2): 135-152. 2011.The definition of knowledge as justified true belief is the best we presently have. However, the canonical tripartite analysis of knowledge does not do justice to it due to a Platonic conception of a priori truth that puts the cart before the horse. Within a pragmatic approach, I argue that by doing away with a priori truth, namely by submitting truth to justification, and by accordingly altering the canonical analysis of knowledge, this is a fruitful definition. So fruitful indeed that it rende…Read more
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2312Freud, Jung, Lacan: Sobre o inconscienteUniversidade do Porto. 2013.Introduction - From the Illiad to the Studies on Hysteria: A chronology of the discovery of the unconscious mind - Freud's theories of the unconscious mind - Jung's collective unconscious - Lacan's linguistic paradigm
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122A Little Idealism Is Idealism Enough: A Study on Idealism In Aristotle’s EpistemologyIdealistic Studies 36 (1): 61-73. 2006.Given the evidence available today, we know that the later Middle Ages knew strong forms of idealism. However, Plato alone will not do to explain some of its features. Aristotle was the most important philosophical authority in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but until now no one dared explore in his thought the roots of this idealism because of the dogma of realism surrounding him. I challenge this dogma, showing that the Stagirite contained in his thought the roots of idealist aspects…Read more
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349Who's Afraid of Idealism?: Epistemological Idealism From the Kantian and Nietzschean Points of ViewUniversity Press of America. 2005.In Who's Afraid of Idealism? the philosophical concept of idealism, the extent to which reality is mind-made, is examined in new light. Author Luis M. Augusto explores epistemological idealism, at the source of all other kinds of idealism, from the viewpoints of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, two philosophers who spent a large part of their lives denigrating the very concept. Working from Kant and Nietzsche's viewpoints that idealism was a scandal to philosophy and the cause of nihilism,…Read more
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2751Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognitionConsciousness and Cognition 42 293-310. 2016.Contemporary studies in unconscious cognition are essentially founded on dissociation, i.e., on how it dissociates with respect to conscious mental processes and representations. This is claimed to be in so many and diverse ways that one is often lost in dissociation. In order to reduce this state of confusion we here carry out two major tasks: based on the central distinction between cognitive processes and representations, we identify and isolate the main dissociation paradigms; we then critic…Read more
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27Accommodating unconscious beliefsPrincípios 17 (28): 129-154. 2010.More often than not, theories of belief and of belief ascription restrict themselves to conscious beliefs, thus obliterating a vast part of our mental life and offering extremely incomplete, unrealistic theories. Indeed, conscious beliefs are the exception, not the rule, as far as human doxastic states are concerned, and a naturalistic, realistic theory of knowledge that aspires to completeness has to take unconscious beliefs into consideration. This paper is the elaboration of such a theory o…Read more
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328Lógicas multivalentes. Uma introdução matemática e computacional.Dissertation, Universidade Aberta. 2016.This is a mathematical and computational intro to many-valued logics. The approach is mostly mathematical, namely algebraic (via the notion of logical matrix) and computational (via the satisfiability problem). An automated calculus -- the signed resolution calculus for many-valued logics -- is elaborated on.
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7Eckhart's BilderPrincípios 15 (24): 167-186. 2008.Eckhart’s doctrine of the bilder is highly original not so much for containing new elements as for the conciliation it achieved among sources at first sight incompatible; these sources can be reduced to three main ones: Plato, Aristotle, and Christian thought. In this paper, I show that Eckhart’s doctrine of the bilder is simultaneously a) an Aristotelian epistemic recreation of Plato’s doctrine of ideas, and b) a Christian ontological recreation of Aristotle’s doctrine of cognition. As such, it…Read more
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62Do unconscious beliefs yield knowledge?Revista Filosófica de Coimbra 18 (35): 161-184. 2009.This paper defends the view that a correct analysis of knowledge must take empirical data into consideration. The data here provided is from experimental psychology, namely from phenomena involving unconscious cognition.
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137Unconscious knowledge: A surveyAdvances in Cognitive Psychology 6 116-141. 2010.The concept of unconscious knowledge is fundamental for an understanding of human thought processes and mentation in general; however, the psychological community at large is not familiar with it. This paper offers a survey of the main psychological research currently being carried out into cognitive processes, and examines pathways that can be integrated into a discipline of unconscious knowledge. It shows that the field has already a defined history and discusses some of the features that all …Read more
Luis M. Augusto
Independent Scientist
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Independent ScientistResearcher
University Of Paris
Alumnus, 2006
Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Formal Epistemology |
Knowledge |
Other Academic Areas |
Areas of Interest
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |