Philosophy of Metacognition - Mental Agency and Self-Awareness

Zusatztext This interesting book constitutes a remarkable contribution to our understanding of a rather neglected subject in philosophy of mind ... Philosophers will find it thought provoking, while psychologists may find some conceptual constructions that will be of use in helping them to better understand and explain their observations. Informationen zum Autor Joëlle Proust is Director of Research at Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Proust first conducted research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the domain of the history and philosophy of logic, and was awarded a CNRS bronze medal for her first book, Questions of Form (Minnesota Press, 1989). She was a founding member of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy. From 2006 to 2009 Proust was the principal investigator of an European Science Foundation interdisciplinary research program about the evolution of metacognition; in 2010 she was awarded a European Research Council advanced grant. Klappentext Does metacognition-the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance-derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations and is essentially related to mental agency. Zusammenfassung Does metacognition--the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance--derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations and is essentially related to mental agency.

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• Authors: Joelle Proust, Joëlle Proust, Joelle ( Proust, Joelle (Ecole Normale Superieure Proust
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198748175
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874817-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge