Attention, Not Self

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonardon Ganeri, Jonardon (Professor of Philosophy Ganeri
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198757405
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875740-5
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, BCE to c 500 CE, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy