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100			_aWatzl, S. _eAuthor _lEnglish _92347
245		0	_aStructuring Mind _b: The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness _c/ by S. Watzl. _h[Electronic Resource]
260			_aNew York _b: Oxford University Press, _c2017
520			_aWhat is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences, this book provides a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions. It shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing. It consists in regulating priority structures. Attention is not another element of the mind, but is constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. Attention thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. It argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us. On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective.
650			_aMind _92348
650			_aPhilosophy Of Mind _915923
856			_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658428.001.0001 _qPDF _yClick to Access the Online Book
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