Attention, Not Self
Attention is of fundamental importance in the philosophy of mind, in epistemology, in action theory, and in ethics. This book presents an account in which attention, not self, explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human beings in the world. Attention consists in an organization of...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
30.11.2017
Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9780198757405, 0198757409, 0198852193, 9780198852193 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Attention, Not Self -- Copyright -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Introduction -- Part I: The Priority of Attention -- 1: Attention and Action -- Attention, Not Self -- The Agent-Causal Self Denied -- Attention as Mental Action -- Buddhaghosa´s Attentionalism -- 2: Consciousness -- Concomitants and Causes -- Finding Consciousness -- Four Defining Features -- 3: Thought and World -- Intentionality is Irreducible -- Aspects of Attention -- The Feeling for Reality -- Functional Definitions -- A World Normatively Alive -- Part II: Attention and Knowledge -- 4: The Content of Perceptual Experience -- Mindedness and the Epistemic Role of Experience -- Does Linguistic Capability Pervade Experience? -- Felt Evaluation and Action Solicitation -- Labelling and Cognitive Access -- Phenomenal Quality Overflows Cognitive Access -- Intentionalism Revisited -- 5: Perceptual Attention -- The Two Roles of Attention -- Thinking-Of and Thinking-Through -- Attention and Perceiving-As -- Perspective and Object Files -- 6: Attention and Knowledge -- Attentional Justification -- Cognitive Penetration -- Attention and Imagination -- Attention, Knowledge, and Expertise -- Part III: The Calling of Attention -- 7: Orienting Attention -- A Puzzle about Attention -- Can the Puzzle be Dissolved? -- Does the Puzzle Trade on an Ambiguity? -- Subliminal Attention -- Crossmodality and Subliminal Orienting -- 8: A Theory of Vision -- Vision´s Three Stages -- Primary Visual Acknowledgement -- Subliminal Seeing and Phenomenal Quality -- 9: The Disunity of Mind -- Why Mind is not an Internal Sense -- Low-Level Mind: Forerunning -- High-Level Mind: Inter-Cognizing -- Top-Down Effects on the Modules of Mind -- 10: Working Memory and Attention -- Late Gate-Keeping -- Mind in Running Mode -- Internal Monitoring Denied -- The Theatre Simile Reworked -- Attention: Window not Spotlight
- Part IV: Attention Expanded -- 11: Varieties of Attention -- Attention is not a Natural Psychological Kind -- Intending as Attention -- Introspection as Attention -- Mindful Attention -- Divided Attention -- Attention and Selection -- 12: Narrative Attention -- Time and the Self -- Episodic Memory as Attention -- Autonoetic Consciousness and Ownership -- Episodic Memory and Reflexive Mental Files -- 13: Empathetic Attention -- Empathy: The Awareness of Others as Others -- Empathy as Attention -- Empathy as Experiential Access -- Testimony and Imagination -- Empiricism in the Philosophy of Mind -- Part V: Attention and Identity -- 14: Identifying Persons -- Freedom from Alienation -- The Concept of a Living Being -- Persons as Loci of Value and Significance -- Disgust: An Immune System for Cognition -- On the Ecotonality of Mind and Life -- Craving as Autonoetic Longing -- 15: Self and Other -- Oneself as Object of Another´s Attention -- Phenomenology and the Normative -- Individualism and Impersonalism Rejected -- 16: Finitude and Flow -- Attention and Centring -- Self-Narratives and Survival -- Attending to What Matters at the End of Life -- Postscript: Philosophy Without Borders -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Boxes -- Figures -- Boxes -- Bibliography -- (1) Buddhaghosa´s Works -- (a) Primary Editions -- (b) Abbreviations -- Treatise: -- Commentaries on Canonical Abhidhamma: -- Sub-commentaries: -- (c) Translations -- (2) Other Primary Reference Works -- (a) Primary Texts -- (b) Dictionaries -- (3) General Bibliography -- Index