Mental Action and the Conscious Mind

Michael Brent is Responsible A.I. Expert at Boston Consulting Group and Cofounding Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, USA. Previously, he was Senior Program Manager in the Office of Responsible A.I. at Microsoft Corporation and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver, USA. His published work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, and Philosophical Psychology. Lisa Miracchi Titus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she is also a General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Lab Faculty Affiliate and a MindCORE Faculty Affiliate. Her published work has appeared in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Synthese.

Introduction Lisa Miracchi Titus & Michael Brent

1. Disappearing Agents, Mental Action, Rational Glue Joshua Shepherd

2. How to Think Many Thoughts at Once: Content Plurality in Mental Action Antonia Peacocke

3. Attending as Mental Action: Mental Action as Attending Wayne Wu

4. The Most General Mental Act Yair Levy

5. Mental Action and the Power of Effort Michael Brent

6. Inference as a Mental Act David Hunter

7. Reasoning and Mental Action Markos Valaris

8. Modeling the Causal Efficacy of Mental Action Holly Andersen

9. Skepticism about Self-Understanding Matthew Boyle

10. Embodied Cognition and the Causal Roles of the Mental Lisa Miracchi Titus

11. Two-Way Powers as Derivative Powers Andrei A. Buckareff

12 Are Practical Decisions Mental Actions? Alfred R. Mele

13. Self-Control, Attention, and How to Live without Special Motivational Powers Sebastian Watzl