{"product_id":"attention-not-self-9780198757405","title":"Attention  Not Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonardon Ganeri presents an account of mind in which attention  not self  explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human beings in the world. Attention consists in an organisation of awareness and action at the centre of which there is neither a practical will nor a phenomenological witness. Attention performs two roles in experience  a selective role of placing and a focal role of access. Attention improves our epistemic standing  because it is in the nature of attention to settle on what is real and to shun what is not real. When attention is informed by expertise  it is sufficient for knowledge. That gives attention a reach beyond the perceptual: for attention is a determinable whose determinates include the episodic memory from which our narrative identities are made  the empathy for others that situates us in a social world  and the introspection that makes us self-aware. Empathy is other-directed attention  placed on you and focused on your states of mind; it is akin to listening. Empathetic attention is central to a range of experiences that constitutively require a contrast between oneself and others  all of which involve an awareness of oneself as the object of anothers attention. An analysis of attention as mental action gainsays authorial conceptions of self  because it is the nature of intending itself  effortful attention in action  to settle on what to do and to shun what not to do. In ethics  a conception of persons as beings with a characteristic capacity for attention offers hope for resolution in the conflict between individualism and impersonalism. Attention  Not Self is a contribution to a growing body of work that studies the nature of mind from a place at the crossroads of three disciplines: philosophy in the analytical and phenomenological traditions  contemporary cognitive science and empirical work in cognitive psychology  and Buddhist theoretical literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665909047349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198757409","price":87.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198757405.jpg?v=1782413836","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/attention-not-self-9780198757405","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}