Title: Augustine's philosophy of mind /
Authors: O'Daly, Gerard J. P.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Augustine,; Philosophy of mind History
Contents: 1. Augustine the philosopher -- 2. General theory of the soul : Terminology: anima, animus and equivalents ; Sources and influences: some preliminary remarks ; Soul and life; parts and degrees of soul ; The origin of souls ; Self-movement and consciousness ; Soul's incorporeal, inextended and indivisible nature ; the soul and divine substance ; Soul's mutability, form and natural goodness ; Soul's middle state ; Soul's relation to body; the emotions ; Soul and the definition of man ; Soul: unity or plurality? ; World-soul ; Reincarnation and transmigration ; The soul-vehicle -- 3. Sense-perception : The physiological mechanism of sense-perception ; Intentio: the active nature of sense-perception ; Perception and memory ; Perception and judgement; internal sense ; Perception, error and image; our knowledge of the external world ; Excursus: internal sense; antecedents and influences -- 4. Imagination : Terminology: phantasia and phantasma ; creative imagination; imagination and the disciplines ; Imagination's effect on bodily states ; The nature of images ; Image, name and word ; Involuntary imaginings, dreams ; Prophetic vision ; Anticipation ; Distortions of the imaginative faculty -- 5. Memory : The formation of memory-images ; The process of remembering, memory, understanding and will ; Memory-image and past perception ; Memory and emotion; forgetting ; Memory and identity -- 6. The measurement of time -- 7. The psychology of human knowledge : The repudiation of scepticism ; Signs, communication and knowledge ; Reason and truth ; Augustine and the Platonic theory of forms ; Knowledge, memory and illumination ; Introspections and will ; Knowledge of God.