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The Philosophy of Metacognition - Mental Agency and Self-Awareness (Paperback)
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The Philosophy of Metacognition - Mental Agency and Self-Awareness (Paperback)
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Does metacognition, i.e. the capacity to form epistemic
self-evaluations about one's current cognitive performance, derive
from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely, at least in part, on
sui generis informational processes? In The Philosophy of
Metacognition Joelle Proust provides a powerful defense of the
second position. Drawing on discussions of empirical evidence from
comparative, developmental, and experimental psychology, as well as
from neuroscience, and on conceptual analyses, she purports to show
that, in contrast with analytic metacognition, procedural
metacognition does not need to involve metarepresentations.
Procedural metacognition seems to be available to some non-humans
(some primates and rodents). Proust further claims that
metacognition is essentially related to mental agency, i.e.
cognitive control and monitoring. 'Self-probing' is equivalent to a
self-addressed question about the feasibility of a mental action
('Am I able to remember this word?'). 'Post-evaluating' is a way of
asking oneself whether a given mental action has been successfully
completed ('Is this word the one I was looking for?'). Neither
question need be articulated conceptually for a feeling of knowing
or of being right to be generated, or to drive epistemic control.
Various issues raised by the contrast of a procedural,
experience-based metacognition, with an analytic, concept-based
metacognition are explored, such as whether each is expressed in a
different representational format, their sensitivity to different
epistemic norms, and the existence of a variety of types of
epistemic acceptance.
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