The philosophy of metacognition : mental agency and self-awareness /
Does metacognition - the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance - derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust draws on psychology and neuroscience to defend the second claim. She argues that metacognition need not involve metarepr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Does metacognition - the capacity to self-evaluate one's cognitive performance - derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely on informational processes? Joëlle Proust draws on psychology and neuroscience to defend the second claim. She argues that metacognition need not involve metarepresentations and is essentially related to mental agency. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191758096 0191758094 |