LUIS M. AUGUSTO
mlag · Institute of Philosophy · FLUP (Postdoctoral
Researcher)
FCT (Postdoctoral Fellow)
HUMAN
COGNITION
Consciousness
– Unconscious Mentation – Abnormal Mentation
Having started my research work
with a specific interest in consciousness,
I now research into the broader field of human
cognition. Foci of my work are unconscious
cognition and abnormal mentation (especially psychosis). I am particularly
interested in how we represent (i.e., how we process information) both consciously
and unconsciously, and how symbolic logic and set theory can describe both
conscious and unconscious computationally representational (i.e., symbolic)
processes. With these larger objectives in view, I am carrying out work in such
diverse aspects as logical form, the syntax-semantics interface, non-classical
logics and extensions of ‘classical’ set theory, and ‘schizophrenic
speech’.
I work within the cognitive science tradition (broadly conceived),
that is, I believe that ‘the mind,’ as a global, simultaneously natural and
cultural phenomenon, has to be approached from different perspectives and from
multiple levels of analysis within each discipline. In this context, I am also interested in the
use of some “philosophical” concepts, such as knowledge, belief, and
consciousness, in scientific approaches to cognition. I find historical issues
on the mind and cognition informative and I also research actively in this
field; my interests in this particular field are broad, but they fall mainly on
Freud, Lacan, Continental philosophy of consciousness, and ancient and medieval
noetics.
I am presently a
postdoctoral research fellow with the Foundation for Science and Technology
(FCT) and I carry out my research project (Unconscious Knowledge: Cognition,
Identity, and Action) in the Institute of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, in
the University of Porto. In the context of this project, I am coordinating an
international research project on Logic & the Unconscious
Mind.
• Recent
Publications:
On human cognition:
- Augusto, L. M. (2011). Is
thought (il)logical or logic
(un)thinkable? [submitted]
- Augusto, L. M. (2010). Unconscious knowledge: A
survey. Advances in Cognitive
Psychology, 6, 116-141.
Conceptual and historical
topics:
- Augusto, L. M. (2011). Putting the horse before the cart: A pragmatist analysis of
knowledge. Trans/Form/Ação, 34,
135-152.
- Augusto, L. M. (2010). Accommodating
unconscious beliefs. Princípios, 17, 129-154.
- Augusto, L. M. (2009). Consciência e inconsciente na filosofia continental. Criticanarede.
- Augusto, L. M. (2009). Do unconscious beliefs yield knowledge? Revista
Filosófica de Coimbra, 35,
161-184.
• Recent Conferences
& Talks:
- Inconsciente e Linguagem: Lições da
Psicose. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, March 25, 2010
- Unconscious
Mental Processes and Action. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto,
March 27, 2009
- Unconscious
Knowledge & Epistemic Accessibility. University of Sussex, Dec. 04,
2008
- Unconscious
Knowledge: When We Don’t Know That We Know. Faculty of Arts of the
University of Porto, Nov. 21, 2008
- Unconscious
Knowledge and Epistemic Status. University of Sussex, June 12, 2008
Contact: laugusto@letras.up.pt