Jonardon Ganeri

Attention, Not Self

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonardon Ganeri presents a radically reoriented account of mind, to which attention is the key. It is attention, not self, that explains the experiential and normative situatedness of humans in the world. Ganeri draws together three disciplines: analytic philosophy and phenomenology, cognitive science and psychology, and Buddhist thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852193
• ISBN-10: 0198852193
• Artikelnr.: 58701102

Autorenporträt

Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is the author of The Self; The Concealed Art of the Soul; The Lost Age of Reason; and Semantic Powers, all published by Oxford University Press. He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year. Open Minds magazine named him of its 50 global "open minds" for 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Attention and Action
2: Consciousness
3: Thought and World
4: The Content of Perceptual Experience
5: Perceptual Attention
6: Attention and Knowledge
7: Orienting Attention
8: A Theory of Vision
9: The Disunity of Mind
10: Working Memory and Attention
11: Varieties of Attention
12: Narrative Attention
13: Empathetic Attention
14: Identifying Persons
15: Self and Other
16: Finitude and Flow
Postscript: Philosophy Without Borders