The Philosophical Significance of Attention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian Watzl (0000-0002-1459-2276, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 722-733 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00432.x |
| OpenAlex | W1886566035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 63 |
What is the philosophical significance of attention? The present article provides an overview of recent debates surrounding the connections between attention and other topics of philosophical interest. In particular, it discusses the interplay between attention and consciousness, attention and agency, and attention and reference. The article outlines the questions and contemporary positions concerning how attention shapes the phenomenal character of experience, whether it is necessary or sufficient for consciousness, and whether it plays a special role in the best philosophical theories of action or conceptual reference. Various interdependencies between the answers to these questions are indicated, as well as how these answers might depend on the metaphysics of attention. Together with its companion piece ('The Nature of Attention') this article serves as an introduction to the philosophy of attention
Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Interdependence · Metaphysics · Philosophical methodology · Philosophical theory · Social science · Sociology · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology
Outline of psychology.
Reference and Consciousness
Why visual attention and awareness are different
Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain
Attention and consciousness
On a confusion about a function of consciousness
Gorillas in Our Midst
Involuntary covert orienting is contingent on attentional control settings.
Objects and attention
Attention alters appearance
Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing
To See or not to See
Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience
The Transparency of Experience
What Is the Role of Consciousness in Demonstrative Thought?
Consciousness and the World
Augustine and Descartes on the Function of Attention in Perceptual Awareness
The Representational Character of Experience
‘Things that Undermine Each Other’
Inattentional Blindness
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
The Will, a Dual Aspect Theory
Intentionalism Defended
The Subject of Consciousness
What is Conscious Attention
Consciousness, Acquaintance and Demonstrative Thought
Watching, Sight, and the Temporal Shape of Perceptual Activity
A feature-integration theory of attention
The principles of psychology
Phenomenology of Perception
Visual feature integration theory
Attention and Intentionalism
Being and Nothingness
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |