Access and Mediation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Attention

This volume proposes an interdisciplinary framework that views attention from a particular angle: as a means of accessing, that is, disclosing the world in a practical and meaningful way. Moreover, it investigates how this access is concretely mediated (by technology, culture, environmental conditions). The book is structured in the following two parts: 1)　　　　　 Attention and Access The first section is concerned with attention as such. What is attention and what does it do? A common thread between the expected contributions addresses attention as a directional disclosing process, opening up a possibility of access to the world. This section brings contributions from a cognitive psychology/neuroscience into dialogue with phenomenology and philosophy of mind; and links attention research to new paradigms, such as predictive coding, and 4e cognition. 2)　　　　　 Attention and Mediation The second section tackles the question of how this disclosing process may work. Concrete disclosing is always framed by different factors and frames the world. The contributions in this section spell out the different ways in which attention is mediated and shaped by technology, situations, sociality etc., and the ways in which attention mediates our access to the world.

Author: Maren Wehrle
Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
Published: 02/21/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9783110642858
ISBN10: 3110642859
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science | General
- Psychology | General
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects

About the Author

M. Wehrle, Erasmus University Rotterdam; E. Solomonova, McGill University, Montreal; D. D'Angelo, Würzburg University.