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Nhen confronted with this data, some cricketers denied the result. It did not onform with how overt attention seemed to them to be deployed. If expert players ‘an be mistaken about a fundamental aspect of their skills, how they attend, might yhilosophers not be as well? A better approach begins with the anchor point: ntrospection involves attention. Rather than resort to introspection to illuminate ittention, apply empirical friction. Look at work on attention in cognitive science ind leverage it to explicate the anchor point to provide a psychologically realistic heory of introspective attention. This will draw on what we know about how ittention works.

Figure 1 Nhen confronted with this data, some cricketers denied the result. It did not onform with how overt attention seemed to them to be deployed. If expert players ‘an be mistaken about a fundamental aspect of their skills, how they attend, might yhilosophers not be as well? A better approach begins with the anchor point: ntrospection involves attention. Rather than resort to introspection to illuminate ittention, apply empirical friction. Look at work on attention in cognitive science ind leverage it to explicate the anchor point to provide a psychologically realistic heory of introspective attention. This will draw on what we know about how ittention works.

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The subject is confronted with multiple potential targets of action and for each, many different responses are possible. We focus on motor responses, here kicks, but one could easily deploy mental capacities, say committing one of the objects to memory (see Yarbus task discussed next). We can depict a behavior space for the subject delineating four distinct visually guided kicks only one of which can be executed at a time. On the left side, the space identifies visual states as possible inputs to behavior, individuated by intentional properties, say being of the soccer ball and of the basketball. In general, the inputs to action will be mental states, the output being a variety of bodily or mental response capacities. When an action is Insert Figure 2
The subject is confronted with multiple potential targets of action and for each, many different responses are possible. We focus on motor responses, here kicks, but one could easily deploy mental capacities, say committing one of the objects to memory (see Yarbus task discussed next). We can depict a behavior space for the subject delineating four distinct visually guided kicks only one of which can be executed at a time. On the left side, the space identifies visual states as possible inputs to behavior, individuated by intentional properties, say being of the soccer ball and of the basketball. In general, the inputs to action will be mental states, the output being a variety of bodily or mental response capacities. When an action is Insert Figure 2