Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception

Abstract

This chapter outlines a theory grounded on the so-called attentional constitution principle (ACP). The ACP contends that attention is constitutive of humans’ perceptual knowledge about individuals. It expands research on perception and demonstrative identification, and is grounded in the idea that the epistemology of empirical beliefs should fit together with the psychobiology of attention in order to explain how human agents navigate and analyze their environment. In contrast to the nonbiological epistemology of knowledge or the nonepistemological psychobiology of attention, the ACP holds that the function of human attention is mainly to serve perceptual knowledge through the extraction of causal information. The following sections of the chapter formulate the ACP and introduce a concept of information that is useful and relevant to the theory.

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