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 …

Pluralist and eliminativist positions have proliferated within both science and philosophy of
science in recent decades. This paper asks the question why this shift of thinking has …

We argue that recent empirical findings and theoretical models shed new light on the nature
of attention. According to the resulting amplification view, attentional phenomena can be …

This paper examines attention as a scientific concept, and argues that it has a patchwork
structure. On this view, the concept of attention takes on different meanings, depending on …

The term attention has been used to mean so many different things that some have
despaired of it being useful at all. This paper is devoted to bringing a modicum of order to …

There is an overriding orthodoxy amongst philosophers that attention is a 'unified
phenomenon', subject to explanation by one monistic theory. In this article, I examine …

This paper develops a mechanistic account of basic mental agency by identifying similarities
between two of its major exemplars: endogenous attention and imagination. Five key …

Attention has become an important focal point of recent work in ethics and epistemology, yet
philosophers continue to be noncommittal about what attention is. In this paper, I defend …

I argue that using information from a cognitive representation to guide the performance of a
primary task is sufficient for intellectual attention, and that this account of attention is …

The overflow debate concerns this following question: does conscious iconic memory have
a higher capacity than attention does? In recent years, Ned Block has been invoking …