Introduction
Part I
1: The Structure of Acting
Appendix 1
2: Attention and Attending
Part II
3: Intention as Practical Memory
4: Intending as Practical Remembering
Part III
5: Automatic Bias, Experts and Amateurs
6: Deducing, Skill and Knowledge
7: Introspecting Perceptual Experience
Epilogue
Bibliography
Wayne Wu is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. He studied biology and chemistry at MIT and did doctoral work in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow before shifting to philosophy, receiving his PhD from Berkeley in 2005. At Carnegie Mellon University, he has been associate director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and is currently associate professor in Philosophy and in the Neuroscience Institute.
This book puts forward a theory of action. It synthesises Wayne
Wu's extensive work on action and attention going back over a
decade, and also substantially extends this foundation... The
result is excellent. The book is wide-ranging, systematic, very
original, and crammed full of interesting ideas. It draws together
scientific work with philosophical argumentation in a way that is
both rigorous and unusually readable. I have no doubt that it will
be important to thinkers interested in action and attention, as
well as philosophers of cognitive science more generally.
*Henry Taylor, University of Birmingham, Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews*
In this excellent book, Wu, a philosopher of mind and cognitive
science, focuses on such mental movements as thinking, remembering,
reasoning, introspecting, and attending to understand what it means
to be an agent. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through
faculty.
*Choice*
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