Table Of ContentThe Intelligent Mind
Also by Richard Dien Winfield
AUTONOMY AND NORMATIVITY
Investigations of Truth, Right, and Beauty
FREEDOM AND MODERNITY
FROM CONCEPT TO OBJECTIVITY
Thinking through Hegel’s Subjective Logic
HEGEL AND MIND
Rethinking Philosophical Psychology
HEGEL AND THE FUTURE OF SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY
HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures
HEGEL’S SCIENCE OF LOGIC
A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures
LAW IN CIVIL SOCIETY
MODERNITY, RELIGION, AND THE WAR ON TERROR
OVERCOMING FOUNDATIONS
Studies in Systematic Philosophy
THE JUST ECONOMY
THE JUST FAMILY
THE JUST STATE
Rethinking Self-Government
THE LIVING MIND
From Psyche to Consciousness
REASON AND JUSTICE
STYLISTICS
Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel
SYSTEMATIC AESTHETICS
The Intelligent Mind
On the Genesis and Constitution of
Discursive Thought
Richard Dien Winfield
University of Georgia, USA
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Contents
Preface x
Introduction 1
I.1 Why psychology must address intelligence 1
I.2 T he challenge of conceiving intelligence in distinction
from and relation to the psyche and consciousness 3
I.3 W hy the conception of intelligence must follow that
of the psyche and consciousness 5
I.4 Intelligence as the psychological domain of rationality 6
I.5 What intelligence adds to reason as consciousness 7
I.6 Intelligence as a knowing of reason 9
I.7 Intelligence as making consciousness its object 10
I.8 Intelligence as initially theoretical 11
I.9 A nticipatory contrast between theoretical and practical
intelligence 1 3
1 Theoretical Intelligence as Cognition 15
1.1 T heoretical intelligence 15
1.2 Theoretical intelligence as cognition, the certitude of
reason 1 6
1.3 Preliminary differentiation of the stages of theoretical
intelligence: intuition, representation, and thought 18
1.4 Questions raised by the division of the stages of
theoretical intelligence 21
2 Intelligence as Intuition 22
2.1 I ntuition as combining feeling and sensation 22
2.2 I ntuition and intuiting as basic to intelligence 25
2.3 I ntuitive attention 2 7
2.4 I ntuition of space and time 32
2.4.1 Why intuited space must be Euclidean 33
2.5 T he intuition of space and time as a presupposition of
representation 3 4
2.6 F rom intuition to representation 36
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3 Intelligence as Representation 38
3.1 F rom intuition to image 38
3.2 R ecollection or reproductive imagination 42
3.2.1 R ecollection versus the unconscious syntheses of
conscious perception 5 0
3.2.2 F orgetting 5 1
3.3 A ssociative imagination 53
3.3.1 T he production of general representations 5 7
3.3.2 T ypes of general representations and the stages of
prediscursive intelligence 6 2
3.3.3 F igurative memory 6 7
3.3.4 T he externalization of general representations: the
psychology of figurative depiction 6 9
3.3.5 T ransition to symbolizing and sign-making
productive imagination 7 7
3.4 Semiotic representation 78
3.4.1 S ymbol and symbolization 8 0
3.4.2 S ign and signification 8 4
3.4.3 S ign use versus tool use 8 5
3.4.4 T he public communication of symbol and sign 86
3.4.5 N ame and word 9 2
3.4.6 N aming versus speech 9 4
3.4.7 S peech versus communication 9 7
3.5 V erbal memory as preparatory to discourse 99
3.5.1 N ame-retentive memory 1 00
3.5.2 R eproductive verbal memory 1 01
3.5.3 M echanical verbal memory 1 04
4 The Constitution of Linguistic Intelligence 108
4.1 T he emergence of language and thought 108
4.1.1 T he relation between language and thought 115
4.1.2 T he sensible media of language 1 18
4.1.3 L inguistic intelligence and the transformation of
experience 1 22
4.1.4 L inguistic intelligence and the transformation of
memory 1 24
4.2 T he inauguration of language 125
4.2.1 T he puzzle of the origin of language 1 25
4.2.2 T he three dogmas blocking comprehension of the
origination of language 1 33
4.2.3 T he origin of the basic elements of language 136
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4.2.4 T he move from names to discourse 141
4.2.5 T he content of universal grammar 1 47
4.2.6 S tages in the emergence of language 151
4.3 T he inner speech of thought 157
4.4 T he acquisition of language in a preexisting linguistic
community 159
4.4.1 U niversal grammar and the acquisition of
language 164
4.4.2 L earning one’s native language versus
learning a foreign language 166
4.5 S tages in the acquisition of uninscribed language 168
4.6 I nscribed versus uninscribed language 172
4.6.1 T he acquisition of inscribed language 174
4.6.2 S tages in the development of inscribed language 176
5 The Psychology of Thinking 181
5.1 T hought 181
5.2 T he logical versus psychological thinking of thinking 185
5.3 T hinking, intelligence, and the opposition of
consciousness 187
5.4 R eason as subject and object of thinking intelligence 189
5.5 T he thinking self 191
5.6 T he psychology of concept formation 193
5.7 T he psychology of understanding 195
5.7.1 C onceptualizing given representations 1 96
5.7.2 D iscursive judgment 198
5.7.3 D iscursive syllogism 199
5.8 T he psychology of reason 200
5.9 T he remaining tasks of the philosophy of mind 203
Notes 204
Works Cited 254
Index 259
