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(See all posts in this series here.) I conclude with Chapters 6 and 7 of the book, which apply the theory to reasoning and introspecting consciousness. Investigating these as forms of attending, ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/15/wu-movements-of-the-mind-post-5-deducing-and-introspecting.aspx

(See all posts in this series here.) Philosophers have been debating implicit biases for some time. In Chapter 5 of MoM, I argue that automatic attention provides a scrutable type of implicit bia...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/14/wu-movements-of-mind-post-4-biased-attention-as-implicit-automatic-bias.aspx

(See all posts in this series here.) Intention is a type of memory. I argue that research on working memory reveals the dynamics of intention as embodying the agent’s control in action. This is...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/13/wu-movements-of-the-mind-post-3-intention-memory-for-work-and-working-memory.aspx

(See all posts in this series here.) In Chapter 2 of MoM and an earlier book (second edition forthcoming), I have defended the selection for action view of attention. A subject attending to targe...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/12/wu-movements-of-mind-post-2-attention.aspx

(See all posts in this series here.) Movements of the Mind (MoM) is about the structure of agency. It also gives a theory of attention. Indeed, it also provides a theory of psychological bias. Fo...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/11/wu-movements-of-the-mind-post-1-the-structure-of-agency.aspx

Hi All, Please join us this week for a series of posts by Wayne Wu, discussing his exciting new book, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Intention, Attention, and Action (Oxford University Press)...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/03/11/this-week-on-brains-wayne-wu-movements-of-the-mind.aspx

By Tillman Vierkant, University of Edinburgh (See all the posts in this series here.) I am very grateful to Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius and Ting Huang for their very insightful comments. ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/10/13/vierkant-response-to-commentaries.aspx

By Ting Huang (See all posts in this series here.) In a prior symposium on the book I posed the following clarifying questions to Vierkant regarding his stance on free will: Does “managerial co...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/10/12/commentary-on-the-tinkering-mind-regarding-the-free-will-problem.aspx

By Paulius Rimkevicius, Chapman University (See all posts in this series here.) Like a tinker, who travels freely from place to place mending metal utensils and sometimes ends up creating quite a...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/10/11/freedom-of-a-tinker-comments-on-tillmann-vierkants-the-tinkering-mind.aspx

By Gloria Andrada, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (See all the posts in this series here.) One of my favorite things about Vierkant’s book is that it provides an original argument for extended co...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/10/10/tinkering-extended-minds-rethinking-direct-agency.aspx