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124Unconscious 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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123JKSS and Paul FeyerabendJournal of Knowledge Structures and Systems 2 (1): 1-2. 2021.In this editorial, I explain how Paul Feyerabend's Principle of Proliferation is adopted and adapted as a publication model for the Journal of Knowledge Structures and Systems (JKSS). Critical views on the limitations of both non-dynamic publishing models and government- and industry-based models of research are expressed.
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121A 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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83Putting 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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82Teodorico de Freiberg: tratado sobre e a origem das coisas categoriaisRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 21 (42): 607-648. 2012.Translation from the Latin into Portuguese, with extensive introduction and notes, of Dietrich of Freiberg's De origine rerum praedicamentalium, Chapter 5. This text, a late medieval treatise on reality and human cognition (or human cognition and reality), is a particularly hard nut to crack; hence my having translated it (O.K., I also enjoyed the Latin part).
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81Transitions Versus Dissociations: A Paradigm Shift in Unconscious CognitionAxiomathes (3): 269-291. 2018.Since Freud and his co-author Breuer spoke of dissociation in 1895, a scientific paradigm was painstakingly established in the field of unconscious cognition. This is the dissociation paradigm. However, recent critical analysis of the many and various reported dissociations reveals their blurred, or unveridical, character. Moreover, we remain ignorant with respect to the ways cognitive phenomena transition from consciousness to an unconscious mode. This hinders us from filling in the puzzle of t…Read more
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81Teodorico de Freiberg: Tratado sobre a Origem das Coisas CategoriaisRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 21 (41): 297-330. 2012.Translation from the Latin into Portuguese, with extensive introduction and notes, of Dietrich of Freiberg's De origine rerum praedicamentalium, Chapters 3 and 4. This text, a late medieval treatise on reality and human cognition (or human cognition and reality), is a particularly hard nut to crack; hence my having translated it (O.K., I also enjoyed the Latin part).
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70Teodorico de Freiberg: tratado sobre a origem das coisas categoriaisRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 20 (40): 507-552. 2011.Translation from the Latin into Portuguese, with extensive introduction and notes, of Dietrich of Freiberg's De origine rerum praedicamentalium, Chapters 1 and 2. This text, a late medieval treatise on reality and human cognition (or human cognition and reality), is a particularly hard nut to crack; hence my having translated it (O.K., I also enjoyed the Latin part).
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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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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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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
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 |