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Wordtrade.com| 1202 Raleigh Road 115| Chapel Hill NC 27517| USA ph 9195425719| fx 9198691643| www.wordtrade.com Spotlight 054 The Problem with Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939 by Dreaming Theory as Religion Egil Asprem [SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions, University of New York Press, 9781438469928] Table of Contents Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save Attention, Not Self by Jonardon Ganeri [Oxford America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. University Press, 9780198757405] Randall [W.W. Norton, 9780393609455] Religion as a Philosophical Matter: Concerns about LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Truth, Name, and Habitation by Lars Albinus [De Native American Literature: LeAnne Howe's Native, Gruyter Open, 9783110468663] Open Source Interstate, and Global South by Kirstin L. Squint [Southern Literary Studies, LSU Press, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America 9780807168714] edited by John Corrigan [Oxford University Press, 9780190456160] Savage Conversations by LeAnne Howe, with a foreword by Susan Power [Coffee House Press, Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary 9781566895316] Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public by Catherine Keller [Insurrections: Critical Studies in Bibliography Religion, Politics, and Culture, Columbia University Press, 9780231189903] Editorial Appraisals: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Some qualified reviewers offer their own brief Theory edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo [Bloomsbury evaluation of the book. Otherwise most of our Academic, 9781350012806] content represents the authors’-editors’ own words Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: An as a preview to their approach to the subject, their Intellectual History by Tariq Rahman [DE GRUYTER, style and point-of-view. <> 9783110550276] Attention, Not Self by Jonardon Ganeri [Oxford Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800 by University Press, 9780198757405] G. W. Pigman III [Anthem Press, 9781783088881] Jonardon Ganeri presents an account of mind in The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries which attention, not self, explains the experiential edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría and normative situatedness of human beings in the [Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, Brill, world. Attention consists in an organisation of 9789004384842] awareness and action at the centre of which there is neither a practical will nor a phenomenological Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story edited by witness. Attention performs two roles in experience, Stuart R. Kaplan, contributors: Mary K. Greer, a selective role of placing and a focal role of Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Melinda Boyd Parsons access. Attention improves our epistemic standing, [U.S. Games Systems Inc., 9781572819122] because it is in the nature of attention to settle on Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the what is real and to shun what is not real. When Legacy by Roger Lipsey [Shambhala Publications, attention is informed by expertise, it is sufficient for 9781611804515] knowledge. That gives attention a reach beyond the perceptual: for attention is a determinable The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, whose determinates include the episodic memory and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason A. from which our narrative identities are made, the Josephson-Storm [University of Chicago Press, empathy for others that situates us in a social 9780226403366] 1 | page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight world, and the introspection that makes us self- Labelling and Cognitive Access aware. Empathy is other-directed attention, placed Phenomenal Quality Overflows Cognitive on you and focused on your states of mind; it is Access Intentionalism Revisited akin to listening. Empathetic attention is central to a 5 Perceptual Attention range of experiences that constitutively require a The Two Roles of Attention Thinking-Of and Thinking-Through Attention and contrast between oneself and others, all of which Perceiving-As Perspective and Object Files involve an awareness of oneself as the object of 6 Attention and Knowledge another's attention. An analysis of attention as Attentional Justification mental action gainsays authorial conceptions of Cognitive Penetration self, because it is the nature of intending itself, Attention and Imagination effortful attention in action, to settle on what to do Attention, Knowledge, and Expertise and to shun what not to do. In ethics, a conception Part III. The Calling of Attention7 Orienting of persons as beings with a characteristic capacity Attention for attention offers hope for resolution in the A Puzzle about Attention conflict between individualism and impersonalism. Can the Puzzle be Dissolved? Does the Puzzle Trade on an Ambiguity? Attention, Not Self is a contribution to a growing Subliminal Attention body of work that studies the nature of mind from Crossmodality and Subliminal Orienting a place at the crossroads of three disciplines: 8 A Theory of Vision philosophy in the analytical and phenomenological Vision’s Three Stages traditions, contemporary cognitive science and Primary Visual Acknowledgement Subliminal Seeing and Phenomenal Quality empirical work in cognitive psychology, and 9 The Disunity of Mind Buddhist theoretical literature. Why Mind is not an Internal Sense Contents Low-Level Mind: Forerunning Epigraphs High-Level Mind: Inter-Cognizing Introduction Top-Down Effects on the Modules of Mind Part I. The Priority of Attention 10 Working Memory and Attention 1 Attention and Action Late Gate-Keeping Attention, Not Self Mind in Running Mode The Agent-Causal Self Denied Internal Monitoring Denied Attention as Mental Action The Theatre Simile Reworked Buddhaghosa’s Attentionalism Attention: Window not Spotlight 2 Consciousness Part IV. Attention Expanded Concomitants and Causes 11 Varieties of Attention Finding Consciousness Attention is not a Natural Psychological Four Defining Features Kind 3 Thought and World Intending as Attention Intentionality is Irreducible Introspection as Attention Aspects of Attention Mindful Attention The Feeling for Reality Divided Attention Functional Definitions Attention and Selection A World Normatively Alive 12 Narrative Attention Part II. Attention and Knowledge Time and the Self 4 The Content of Perceptual Experience Episodic Memory as Attention Mindedness and the Epistemic Role of Autonoetic Consciousness and Ownership Experience Does Linguistic Capability Episodic Memory and Reflexive Mental Pervade Experience? Felt Evaluation and Files Act Solicitation 13 Empathetic Attention 2 | Page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight Empathy: The Awareness of Others as • The function of consciousness must be to Others link us attentively to the physical world Empathy as Attention that contains us ...Attention ultimately Empathy as Experiental Access functions as a sort of life-blood for a Testimony and Imagination whole range of mental phenomena; or Empiricism in the Philosophy of Mind Part V. Attention and Identity perhaps better expressed, as a kind of 14 Identifying Persons psychic space ... A system of experience Freedom from Alienation constitutes a continuous ongoing The Concept of a Living Being phenomenon which is a sort of circle or Persons as Loci of Value and Significance centre of awareness. This awareness is the Disgust: An Immune System for Cognition Attention. —Brian O’Shaughnessy, On the Ecotonality of Mind and Life Consciousness and the World Craving as Autonoetic Longing • Attention provides a window for 15 Self and Other Oneself as Object of Another’s Attention consciousness through which we become Phenomenology and the Normative aware of a small subset of real bindings Individualism and Impersonalism Rejected among a throng of illusory phantom 16 Finitude and Flow objects. —Anne Treisman, ‘Consciousness Attention and Centring and Perceptual Binding’ in A. Cleeremans Self-Narratives and Survival and C. Frith eds., The Unity of Attending to What Matters at the End of Consciousness, Binding, Integration, and Life Disassociation Postscript: Philosophy Without Borders • We should not pretend to find a detached Acknowledgements List of Figures and Boxes self in all our experiencing and acting ... Bibliography we should discard the idea that Index mindedness implies the presence of a detached self. —John McDowell, ‘The Excerpt: Epigraphs Myth of the Mind as Detached’ in Joseph • We say: ‘I didn’t see; my attention was Schear ed., Mind, Reason and Being-in-the elsewhere. I didn’t hear; my attention was World elsewhere.’ For it is through the attention • There is no inner self which does the that one sees and hears. Therefore, even looking towards or looking away. — when someone touches us on the back, we Buddhaghosa, The Dispeller of Delusion (c. perceive it through the attention. — 450 CE) Brhadāranyaka Upanishad (c. 7th century • When I run after a streetcar, when I look BCE.) at the time, when I am absorbed in • And what is the proximate cause for contemplating a portrait, there is no I ... I knowledge, for seeing things as they really am then plunged into the world of are? It should be said: attention. —Sam˙ attractive and repellant qualities—but me, yutta Nikāya (c. 3rd century BCE.) I have disappeared. —Jean-Paul Sartre, • Attention is the centring of consciousness The Transcendence of the Ego evenly and correctly on a single object; • Attention with effort is all that any case of placing is what is meant. Its function is to volition implies. —William