Abstract 'Everyone knows what attention is' according to William James. Much work on
attention in psychology and neuroscience cites this famous phrase only to quickly dismiss it …

Section 1 establishes a common ground conception of attention no more controversial than
the established experimental paradigms for attention. This conception explicates the …

Psychedelic experiences have been shown to both facilitate (re) connection to one's values
and change values, including enhancing aesthetic appreciation, promoting pro …

Consider a terrible situation that too many women find themselves in: 85,000 women are
raped in England and Wales alone every year. Many of these women do not bring their …

One theme in complaints from those with marginalized social identities is that they are seen
primarily in terms of that identity. Some Black artists, for instance, complain about being seen …

Recommender systems are artificial intelligence technologies, deployed by online platforms,
that model our individual preferences and direct our attention to content we're likely to …

Semantic features are components of concepts. In philosophy, there is a predominant focus
on those features that are necessary (and jointly sufficient) for the application of a concept …

I discuss the roles of journalism in aspirational democracies and argue that they generate a
set of pressures on attention that apply to people by virtue of the type of society they live in …

In this article, we argue that YouTube's algorithm should be programmed to make a modest
but significant percentage (eg 2%) of recommendations for the climate. Just as a librarian …

As the signatories of this manifesto, we denounce the attention economy as inhumane and a
threat to our sociopolitical and ecological well-being. We endorse policymakers' efforts to …