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Structuring Mind
The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness
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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.


Contents:

PART I. WHAT IS ATTENTION?; PART II. ATTENTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS


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ISBN-13: 9780199658428
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: March, 2017
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 153.00 x 241.00 x 27.00
Weight: 624g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Neuroscience

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