Mental Action and the Conscious Mind 1st Edition by Michael Brent ,Lisa Miracchi Titus ISBN 0367077515 978-0367077518

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ISBN 10: 0367077515 

ISBN 13:  978-0367077518

Author: Michael Brent ,Lisa Miracchi Titus

Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind. Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary accounts of the conscious mind often ignore the role of mental action and agency in shaping consciousness. This collection aims to establish the centrality of mental action for discussions of agency and mind. The thirteen original essays provide a wide-ranging vision of the various and nuanced philosophical issues at stake. Among the questions explored by the contributors are:

• Which aspects of our conscious mental lives are agential?
  
• Can mental action be reduced to and explained in terms of non-agential mental states, processes, or events?
  
• Must mental action be included among the ontological categories required for understanding and explaining the conscious mind more generally?
  
• Does mental action have implications for related topics, such as attention, self-knowledge, self-control, or the mind-body problem?

By investigating the nature, scope, and explanation of mental action, the essays presented here aim to demonstrate the significance of conscious mental action for discussions of agency and mind. Mental Action and the Conscious Mind will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and philosophy of agency, as well as to philosophically inclined cognitive scientists.

Table of contents: 

1. Disappearing Agents, Mental Action, Rational Glue Joshua Shepherd

2. How to Think Many Thoughts at Once: Content Plurality in Mental Action Antonia Peacocke

3. Attending as Mental Action: Mental Action as Attending Wayne Wu

4. The Most General Mental Act Yair Levy

5. Mental Action and the Power of Effort Michael Brent

6. Inference as a Mental Act David Hunter

7. Reasoning and Mental Action Markos Valaris

8. Modeling the Causal Efficacy of Mental Action Holly Andersen

9. Skepticism about Self-Understanding Matthew Boyle

10. Embodied Cognition and the Causal Roles of the Mental Lisa Miracchi Titus

11. Two-Way Powers as Derivative Powers Andrei A. Buckareff

12 Are Practical Decisions Mental Actions? Alfred R. Mele

13. Self-Control, Attention, and How to Live without Special Motivational Powers Sebastian Watzl

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