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Movements of the Mind addresses the fundamental question of what it is to be an agent. Wayne Wu tackles the phenomenon of mental agency by integrating philosophical and empirical work in an accessible way that illuminates key aspects of mind, such as control, attention, intention, memory, learning, and introspection.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1: The Structure of Acting
- Appendix 1
- 2: Attention and Attending
- Part II
- 3: Intention as Practical Memory
- 4: Intending as Practical Remembering
- Part III
- 5: Automatic Bias, Experts and Amateurs
- 6: Deducing, Skill and Knowledge
- 7: Introspecting Perceptual Experience
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
About the author
Wayne Wu is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. He studied biology and chemistry at MIT and did doctoral work in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow before shifting to philosophy, receiving his PhD from Berkeley in 2005. At Carnegie Mellon University, he has been associate director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and is currently associate professor in Philosophy and in the Neuroscience Institute.
Summary
Movements of the Mind addresses the fundamental question of what it is to be an agent. Wayne Wu tackles the phenomenon of mental agency by integrating philosophical and empirical work in an accessible way that illuminates key aspects of mind, such as control, attention, intention, memory, learning, and introspection.
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In this excellent book, Wu, a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, focuses on such mental movements as thinking, remembering, reasoning, introspecting, and attending to understand what it means to be an agent. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.
