Carolyn Dicey Jennings

The Attending Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses how attention relates to the self, perception, knowledge, consciousness, action, and responsibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781107195608
• ISBN-10: 1107195608
• Artikelnr.: 58701726

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Dicey Jennings is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Merced.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The philosophical landscape on attention
3. Attention, mental causation, and the self
4. Attention, perception, and knowledge
5. Attention, consciousness, and habitual behavior
6. Attention, action, and responsibility
7. Conclusion
Appendix A. Mental causation and its problems
Appendix B. The conceptual history of top-down attention
Appendix C. Top-down attention and the brain
Appendix D. Working memory and attention.