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Paying attention to attention: psychological realism and the attention economy
In recent years, philosophers have identified a number of moral and psychological harms associated with the attention economy (Aylsworth and Castro,...
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Attention and Representational Precision
Visual experiences often feel crisper, sharper or more vivid when one pays attention to the seen object. According to some representationalist...
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Virtuous Collective Attention
How can a collective pay attention virtuously? Imagine a group of scientists. It matters what topics they pay attention to, that is, which topics...
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Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention
Is it wrong to distract? Is it wrong to direct others’ attention in ways they otherwise would not choose? If so, what are the grounds of this wrong –...
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Joint Attention: The PAIR Account
In this paper I outline the PAIR account of joint attention as a perceptual-practical, affectively charged intentional relation. I argue that to...
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Joint Attention: Normativity and Sensory Modalities
Joint attention is typically conceptualized as a robust psychological phenomenon. In philosophy, this apparently innocuous assumption leads to the...
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Attention as a patchwork concept
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...
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Shared Attention as a Revelatory Practice
In order to understand what we are talking about when we talk about joint attention, I will scrutinize how the mainstream view that builds on...
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Attention as Practice
The “attention economy” refers to the tech industry’s business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource. The libertarian...
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Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation
Recommender systems are artificial intelligence technologies, deployed by online platforms, that model our individual preferences and direct our...
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Digital Distraction, Attention Regulation, and Inequality
In the popular and academic literature on the problems of the so-called attention economy , the cost of attention grabbing, sustaining, and immersing...
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What We Do and Don’t Know About Joint Attention
Joint attention is an early-emerging and uniquely human capacity that lies at the foundation of many other capacities of humans, such as language and...
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Structuring embodied minds: attention and perceptual agency
Perception is, at least sometimes, something we do. This paper is concerned with how to account for perceptual agency (i.e., the active aspect of...
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Representation, Attention, and Perceptual Learning
What sorts of properties we perceive matters for understanding the nature of perception and the scope of perceptual justification. One way of arguing...
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Is There Such a Thing as Joint Attention to the Past?
Joint attention is recognised by many philosophers and psychologists as a fundamental cornerstone of our engagement with one another and the world...
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Acquaintance, Attention, and Introspective Justification
This paper develops a version of the acquaintance theory of introspective justification. In the process, it rejects the view that acquaintance is sui...
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Attention: a descriptive taxonomy
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...
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Silence, Attention, Body
This paper argues that the gesture of being silent —or “subjective silence”— can be described as a specific modulation of attention, in which...
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What Matters to Others: A High-Threshold Account of Joint Attention
If only implicitly, social anthropology has long incorporated joint attention as a research technique employed in what anthropologists call “the...
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Das Phänomen der Joint Attention
Das Phänomen der joint attention fand vor allem in den letzten zehn bis fünfzehn Jahren wieder verstärkt Eingang in die Diskussionen der...