|
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology
|
Not currently available
Attention, Not Self (Paperback)
Loot Price: R979
Discovery Miles 9 790
|
|
|
Attention, Not Self (Paperback)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Jonardon Ganeri presents an account of mind in which attention, not
self, explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human
beings in the world. Attention consists in an organisation of
awareness and action at the centre of which there is neither a
practical will nor a phenomenological witness. Attention performs
two roles in experience, a selective role of placing and a focal
role of access. Attention improves our epistemic standing, because
it is in the nature of attention to settle on what is real and to
shun what is not real. When attention is informed by expertise, it
is sufficient for knowledge. That gives attention a reach beyond
the perceptual: for attention is a determinable whose determinates
include the episodic memory from which our narrative identities are
made, the empathy for others that situates us in a social world,
and the introspection that makes us self-aware. Empathy is
other-directed attention, placed on you and focused on your states
of mind; it is akin to listening. Empathetic attention is central
to a range of experiences that constitutively require a contrast
between oneself and others, all of which involve an awareness of
oneself as the object of another's attention. An analysis of
attention as mental action gainsays authorial conceptions of self,
because it is the nature of intending itself, effortful attention
in action, to settle on what to do and to shun what not to do. In
ethics, a conception of persons as beings with a characteristic
capacity for attention offers hope for resolution in the conflict
between individualism and impersonalism. Attention, Not Self is a
contribution to a growing body of work that studies the nature of
mind from a place at the crossroads of three disciplines:
philosophy in the analytical and phenomenological traditions,
contemporary cognitive science and empirical work in cognitive
psychology, and Buddhist theoretical literature.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
