Attention is cognitive unison
Subtitle: an essay in philosophical psychology
By: by Christopher Mole.
Series: Philosophy of mind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780195384529
Subjects: Attention; Philosophy of mind
Description: Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In this book, Christopher Mole gives a precise account of the metaphysical difference that divides these two categories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Highlights of a difficult history; title: The preliminary identification of our topic; title: Approaches; title: Bradley's protest; title: James's disjunctive theory; title: The source of Bradley's dissatisfaction; title: Behaviourism and after; title: Heirs of Bradley in the twentieth century; title: The underlying metaphysical issue; title: Explanatory tactics; title: The basic distinction; title: Metaphysical categories and taxonomies; title: Adverbialism, multiple realizability, and natural kinds; title: Adverbialism and levels of explanation; title: Taxonomies and supervenience relations; title: Rejecting the process : first view; title: Supervenience-failure; title: The modal commitments of the process : first view; title: The interference argument  : a putative problem for adverbialist accounts; title: Cognitive unison; title: The problem with attitude based adverbialism; title: Gilbert Ryle and Alan White; title: White's argument against disposition-based adverbialism; title: The cognitive unison theory; title: Tasks; title: Cognitive processes; title: Potential service of a task; title: Superordinate tasks; title: Some features of the theory; title: Divided attention; title: Degrees of attention and merely partial attention; title: The causal life of attention; title: Mental causation; title: How to respond to mental causation objections; title: The causal role of attention; title: Attention as an enabling condition; title: Counterfactuals; title: The causal relevance of attention per se; title: Counterfactuals and causally relevant properties; title: Objections to counterfactual analysis of causation and of causal relevance; title: The extrinsicness of unison; title: The privative character of unison and the problem of absence causation; title: Causal exclusion; title: Consequences for cognitive psychology; title: Psychology and metaphysics; title: The metaphysical commitments of the process-identifying project; title: The diverse explanatory construals of current psychological results; title: Reasons for deflation; title: Inductively unreliable properties; title: Questions without answers; title: The positive payoff; title: Philosophical work for the theory of attention; title: Putting attention to philosophical work; title: Attention and reference; title: Attention and consciousness; title: Prospects for optimism.