Structuring Mind
The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 March 2017
- ISBN 9780199658428
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 241x160x26 mm
- Weight 624 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? Sebastian Watzl engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences to provide a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions
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What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences this book provides a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions. Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. Attention is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. Attention thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. Watzl argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us. On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective.
What is attention? What is its role in consciousness? Watzl's book answers these questions with a simple idea: Attention structures the mind. The idea is fleshed out in this ambitious two-part work, the first providing a metaphysics of attention as an activity of ordering the mind in terms of priority, the second providing a conception of attention as organizing consciousness by centering the conscious field. Watzl has thought deeply about these issues, and the results are carefully explicated in this compelling and complex book. It provides the most comprehensive philosophical discussion of the functional and phenomenal aspects of attention currently available in monograph form.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. What is attention?
Beyond Brain Mechanisms
Attending
Activities
Priority Structures
The What and Why of Priority Structures
Psychological Salience
Executive Control
Part II. Attention and Consciousness
Beyond Appearances
Phenomenal Structure
Phenomenal Salience
Awareness of Attending
Necessity and Sufficiency
The Perspectivity Picture
