Mole Christopher, Henry Aaron
Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2023 Jan;14(1):e1588. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1588. Epub 2022 Jan 12.
This article presents theories of attention that attempt to derive their answer to the question of what attention is from their answers to the question of what it is for some activity to be done attentively. Such theories provide a distinctive account of the difficulties that are faced by the attempt to locate processes in the brain by which the phenomena of attention can be explained. Their account does not share the pessimism of theories suggesting that the concept of attention is defective. Instead it reconstrues the explanatory relationship between attention and the processes that constitute it, in a way that is illustrated here by considering the relationship between attention and the processes that are identified by the biased competition theory. After considering some of the ways in which an adverbialist approach might be developed, the article concludes by suggesting some possible solutions to a problem concerning distraction, by which prominent adverbialist theories of attention have been dogged. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Attention Philosophy > Metaphysics Philosophy > Foundations of Cognitive Science.
本文介绍了一些注意力理论，这些理论试图从对“一项活动被专注地完成意味着什么”这一问题的答案中，推导出对“注意力是什么”这一问题的答案。此类理论对试图在大脑中定位能够解释注意力现象的过程时所面临的困难给出了独特的解释。它们的解释并不认同那些认为注意力概念有缺陷的理论的悲观态度。相反，它以一种在这里通过考虑注意力与偏向竞争理论所确定的过程之间的关系来说明的方式，重新解释了注意力与构成它的过程之间的解释关系。在考虑了状语主义方法可能被发展的一些方式之后，本文通过提出一些可能解决一个困扰了著名的状语主义注意力理论的分心问题的方案来作结。本文分类如下：心理学>注意力；哲学>形而上学；哲学>认知科学基础。
