Dianoia

Dianoia (Greek: διάνοια, ratio in Latin) is a term used by Plato for a type of thinking, specifically about mathematical and technical subjects. Dianoia is the human cognitive capacity for, process of, or result of discursive thinking, and stands in contrast to the immediate, cognitive process of intuitive apprehension or noesis (noesis).

'Dianoia' is also the name of a quarterly newsletter of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

The Dianoia Institute of Philosphy at the Australian Catholic University focuses on philosophy in the analytic tradition.[1] Researchers at the Institute include John Hawthorne, Clayton Littlejohn, Stephen Finlay, Gillian Russell, and Peter Fritz. Affiliated researchers include Robert Audi, Eleonore Stump, John Haldane, C. A. J. Coady, and Roger Crisp.[2]