Joëlle Proust

The Philosophy of Metacognition (eBook, ePUB)

Mental Agency and Self-Awareness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Does metacognition--the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance--derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations and is essentially related to mental agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191022562
• Artikelnr.: 40043192

Autorenporträt

Joëlle Proust is Director of Research at Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Proust first conducted research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the domain of the history and philosophy of logic, and was awarded a CNRS bronze medal for her first book, Questions of Form (Minnesota Press, 1989). She was a founding member of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy. From 2006 to 2009 Proust was the principal investigator of an European Science Foundation interdisciplinary research program about the evolution of metacognition; in 2010 she was awarded a European Research Council advanced grant.