Noetics is the science of understanding. Its subject is the reality of being, the reality and principles of understanding and the limitss of understanding of our being.

As in logic, noetics is interested in questions of validity of our thinking; but, more than logic, it also searches the problem of contents of logical judgements. Equivalent names for Noetics - or better - some parts or streams in Noetics are also known as critic of understanding , gnoseology, epistemology and criteriology .

The first philosopher particularily interested in some aspects of later noetics was Augustinus Aurelius , but the founders of noetics were René Descartes, John Locke and Immanuel Kant.

See also: noetic.

References

Classical literature

• Augustinus Aurelius: Contra Academicos
• Descartes: Meditations
• Locke: Human Sense
• Hume: Human Sense
• Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft

Modern literature

• Mercier: Criteriologie general
• Vries: Denken und Sein
• Steenberghen: Epistemologie
• Brunner: Erkenntnisstheorie
• Cassirer: Das Erkenntnissproblem
• T. E. Hill: Contemporary Theories of Knowledge.