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15Vicarious attention, degrees of enhancement, and the contents of consciousnessPhilosophy and the Mind Sciences 3. 2022.How are attention and consciousness related? Can we learn what the contents of someone’s consciousness are if we know the targets of their attention? What can we learn about the contents of consciousness if we know the targets of attention? Although introspection might suggest that attention and consciousness are intimately connected, a good body of recent findings in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience brings compelling reasons to believe that they are two separate and independent p…Read more
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9Enhanced but Indeterminate? How Attention Colors our WorldReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1-25. forthcoming.Attention makes things look brighter and more colorful. In light of these effects, representationalist philosophers propose that attentive experiences represent more determinate color properties than inattentive experiences. Although this claim is appealing, we argue that it does not hold for one of our best conceptualizations of content determinacy, according to which an experience has more determinate contents if it represents a narrower range of values within the relevant dimension. We argue …Read more
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionOther
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Attention and Consciousness |