Noetics
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Noetics is both a branch of metaphysics and a fringe branch of parapsychology concerned with the study of mind as well as intellect.
Philosophy
In ancient Greek and medieval philosophy, noetic topics included the doctrine of the active intellect (Aristotle, Averroes)[1] and the doctrine of the divine intellect (Plotinus).[2]
Late modern philosopher and phenomenologist Franz Brentano introduced a distinction between sensory and noetic consciousness: the former describes presentations of sensory objects or intuitions, while the latter describes the thinking of concepts.[3][4] (See also Noesis (phenomenology).)
Psychology
Noetics is also useful in psychology such as the way it overlaps with Jamesian psychology, which deals with a range of phenomena (including emotions and feelings) that influence our thinking and knowing.[5]
Anthropologists like Lawrence Krader consider noetics as a science, an empirical discipline that concerns itself with the processes, states, and events in the real world of space and time.[6]
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (founded in 1973) describes noetic sciences as "how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world". Since the 1970s and the foundation of the Institute of Noetic Sciences by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and others, the term "noetics" has been adopted by several authors such as Christian de Quincey in Deep Spirit: Cracking the Noetic Code (2008) and Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol (2009), who write about consciousness and spirituality. Quackwatch lists the Institute of Noetic Science on its Questionable Organizations list.[7]
See also
Philosophy
- Neoplatonism
- Medieval Christian philosophy of intellect
- Panpsychism
- Noology, another term for the same field
Contemporary philosophy
Alternative philosophy and parapsychology
- Integral thought and Ken Wilber
- Institute of Noetic Sciences and Christian de Quincey
- New Thought
- Noosphere
Cybernetics
Classical psychology
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Philokalia by St. Philotheos of Sinai, Volume 3, 1986, p. 16
References
- ^ Daniel D. De Haan (2010). "Aristotle's De Anima: A Common Point of Departure for Averroistic and Thomistic Noetics?".
- ^ Richard T. Wallis. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. SUNY Press, 1992, p. 99ff.
- ^ Brentano, F., Sensory and Noetic Consciousness: Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint III, International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
- ^ Biagio G. Tassone, From Psychology to Phenomenology: Franz Brentano's 'Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint' and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p. 307.
- ^ Krader, Lawrence; Levitt, Cyril (2010). Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 257–258. ISBN 9781433107627.
- ^ Krader, Lawrence; Levitt, Cyril (2010). Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing. New York: Peter Lang. pp. xxvii, 9. ISBN 9781433107627.
- ^ Barrett, Stephen (5 February 2022). "Questionable Organizations: An Overview | Quackwatch". Retrieved 6 February 2023.
Sources
- Davidson, H. A., Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- de Quincey, C., Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship, Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2005.
- Kenny, Anthony, Aquinas on Mind, Routledge, 1994.
Further reading
- Zarkadakis, G. (2001), "Noetics: A Proposal for a theoretical approach to consciousness", Proceedings of International Conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness: Sweden 2001; Consciousness and its place in Nature", University of Skovde, Sweden, 7–11 August 2001.
External links
The dictionary definition of noetic at Wiktionary
