On Attention and Norms: An Opinionated Review of Recent Work

Abstract

This paper presents a theory that integrates attention, salience, and vigilance as features of human agents and which links to normative issues in assessing agency as in ethics and epistemology. It is a work in philosophical psychology that connects it to empirical psychology and neuroscience.

Varieties of Bias

“…22 22 In a similar spirit, Wayne Wu invokes bias as central to his characterization of attention in order to solve what he calls ‘the Selection Problem’, which he sometimes demonstrates also with an appeal to Buridan's ass (Wu, 2023b, p. 3). I discuss the relationship between bias, attention, and priority further in Section 3.4.…”