Philosophy of Attention:

Additional readings & materials 

​

Session 7:

​

• Moral Machine (participate in a trolley dilemma online experiment)

​

Studies on moral pop-out and binocular rivalry:

​

• Anderson et al (2011). "The visual impact of gossip"

• Gantman & Van Bavel (2014). "The moral pop-out effect"

​

Studies on eye-tracking and moral dilemmas:

​

• Decety, J., et al (2012). "The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity"

• Garon et al (2018). "Visual encoding of social cues predicts sociomoral reasoning"

• Garon et al (2018). "Visual encoding of social cues contributes to moral reasoning in Autism Spectrum Disorder"

• Kastner, R. (2011). "Moral judgments and visual attention"

• Skulmowski, A., et al (2014). "Forced-choice decision-making in modified trolley dilemma situations"

​

Studies on cheating and generosity:

​

• Hochman et al (2016). "Biased processing and increased arousal in dishonest responses."

• Rahal et al (2020). "Prosocial preferences condition decision effort and ingroup biased generosity in intergroup decision-making"

• Teoh et al (2020). "Attentional priorities drive effects of time pressure on altruistic choice"

​

Session 4:

 

• Project Implicit (detect your own unconscious biases)

• Siegel, S. (2017). The Rationality of Perception.

• Sripada, C. (2018). "An exploration/exploitation trade-off between mind- wandering and goal-directed thinking."

​

Sessions 1-3:

​

• Mole, C. & Henry, A.  (2017), “What is attention? Adverbialist theories” 

• Reynolds, J.H. & Heeger, D.J. (2009). “The normalization model of attention.”

• Watzl, S. (2011), “Attention as structuring the stream of consciousness”

• Wu, W. (2011). “Attention as selection for action”

​

 

Warm-up readings:

​

Why should you care about attention?

• Sebastian Watzl, “Who needs a theory of attention?”

• Clinton Castro & Adam Pham, “Is the economy of attention noxious?”

• C. O. Evans, “Free will and attention”

• Dan Goleman, “Attention regulates emotion: Focus and self control”

​

The philosophical landscape:

• Attention (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

 

The science of attention:

• Grace W. Lindsay, “Attention in psychology, neuroscience and machine learning.”

​