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- Title
DRIFTING AND DIRECTED MINDS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MIND-WANDERING FOR MENTAL AGENCY.
- Authors
IRVING, ZACHARY C.
- Abstract
After a conference lunch, you shuffle into the afternoon talk. Although the speaker is lively and the topic excites you, your mind will not be still. The thought of sneaking away for coffee gives way to snippets of a conversation you had this morning. You picture a slide from your talk tomorrow then, smiling, remember that your annual camping trip is next weekend. Later that day, you retreat to a cafe, where you deliberately and methodically work through a counterexample to the speaker's paper. You shut out all distractions and construct a chain of objections and replies.
- Subjects
DISTRACTION; WANDERING behavior; THOUGHT &; thinking; OBJECTIONS (Evidence); ORATORS
- Publication
Journal of Philosophy, 2021, Vol 118, Issue 11, p614
- ISSN
0022-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/jphil20211181141