Adrienne Prettyman

Biographic Data

ID308885
NAMEAdrienne Prettyman
GIVEN NAMESAdrienne
FAMILY NAMEPrettyman
SIGNATUREPRETTYMAN A
AFFILIATIONSBryn Mawr College
ORCID0000-0002-9191-5446
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Artificial consciousness

    Open AccessAdrienne PrettymanARTICLEInquiry2026

    Rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have renewed interest in the question of whether consciousness can arise in an artificial system, like a digital computer. The general consensus is that LLMs are not conscious. This paper evaluates the main arguments against artificial consciousness in LLMs and argues that none of them show what they intend. However strong our intuitions against artificial consciousness are, they currently lack r…

  • Responsibility for Perception

    Open AccessAdrienne PrettymanARTICLEErkenntnis2025

    Perception is widely regarded as exempt from moral assessment. Yet our ordinary practices of praise and blame suggest otherwise: we fault a dentist who fails to see a cavity, or a mechanic who cannot hear engine trouble. This paper develops and defends a theory of perceptual responsibility , according to which individuals are sometimes responsible for how they perceive. I argue that we are responsible for perceptual experiences because they can r…

  • What is diffuse attention

    Open AccessAdrienne PrettymanARTICLEMind & Language2023

    This article defends a theory of diffuse attention and distinguishes it from focal attention. My view is motivated by evidence from psychology and neuroscience, which suggests that we can deploy visual selective attention in at least two ways: by focusing on a small number of items, or by diffusing attention over a group of items taken as a whole. I argue that diffuse attention is selective and can be object‐based. It enables a subject to select …

  • The persistent problem of targetless thought

    Open AccessAdrienne PrettymanARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2020

  • Perceptual content is indexed to attention

    Open AccessAdrienne PrettymanARTICLESynthese2017References: 29

  • Religion as Moderator of the Sense of Control–Health Connection: Gender Differences

    Paul Wink, Michele Dillon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion, Spirituality…2007

    Objectives. Sense of personal control is a key marker of successful aging, yet little is known about its relation to religiousness and personal adversity among older adults. This study investigated the relation between two different religious orientations, a church-centered religiousness and a non-church-based spiritual seeking, sense of control, physical health, and gender in late adulthood. Methods. The participants consisted of a community sam…

  • Religiousness, Spiritual Seeking, and Authoritarianism: Findings from a Longitudinal Study

    Open AccessPaul Wink, Michele Dillon et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2007Cited by: 14References: 32

    We use long-term longitudinal data from a sample (N = 155) of older age mainline Protestants, Catholics, and a small number of conservative Protestants to investigate the relations among church-centered religiousness, spiritual seeking, and authoritarianism. In late adulthood, religiousness was related positively, and spiritual seeking was related negatively, to authoritarianism; these relations held even after excluding conservative Protestants …