The philosophy of metacognition : mental agency and self-awareness / Joëlle Proust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proust, Joëlle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metacognition.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Mental agency and self-awareness

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 draws on psychology and neuroscience to defend the second claim. She argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations and is essentially related to mental agency.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. An Evaluativist Proposal: Cognitive Control and Metacognition

3. Metacognition as Cognition about Cognition: Attributive Views

4. Metacognition or Metarepresentation? A Critical Discussion of Attributivism

5. Primate Metacognition

6. A Representational Format for Procedural Metacognition

7. Mental Acts as Natural Kinds

8. The Norms of Acceptance

9. Epistemic Agency and Metacognition: An Externalist View

10. Is There a Sense of Agency for Thought?

11. Thinking of Oneself as the Same

12. Experience of Agency in Schizophrenia

13. Conversational Metacognition

14. Dual-system Metacognition and New Challenges.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-102256-X

0-19-874817-5

0-19-175809-4

0-19-166288-7

OCLC:

871190516