Attention, not self / Jonardon Ganeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganeri, Jonardon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attention.

Self (Philosophy).

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 392 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Jonardon Ganeri presents a radically reoriented account of mind, to which attention is the key. It is attention, not self, that explains the experiential and normative situatedness of humans in the world. Ganeri draws together three disciplines: analytic philosophy and phenomenology, cognitive science and psychology, and Buddhist thought.

Contents:

pt. I Priority of Attention

1. Attention and Action

Attention, Not Self

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

Feeling for Reality

Functional Definitions

World Normatively Alive

pt. II Attention and Knowledge

4. 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

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

pt. III Calling of Attention

7. Orienting Attention

Puzzle about Attention

Can the Puzzle be Dissolved?

Does the Puzzle Trade on an Ambiguity?

Subliminal Attention

Crossmodality and Subliminal Orienting

8. Theory of Vision

Vision's Three Stages

Primary Visual Acknowledgement

Subliminal Seeing and Phenomenal Quality

9. 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

Theatre Simile Reworked

Attention: Window not Spotlight

pt. 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

pt. V Attention and Identity

14. Identifying Persons

Freedom from Alienation

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.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-107471-3

0-19-181730-9

0-19-107470-5