The Implicit Mind: Cognitive Architecture, the Self, and Ethics

273 Pages·2018·12.12 MB·English

by  Michael Brownstein

The Implicit Mind

The Implicit Mind
Cognitive Architecture, the Self, and Ethics
MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction 1
PART ONE MIND
2. Perception, Emotion, Behavior, and Change: Components
of Spontaneous Inclinations 29
3. Implicit Attitudes and the Architecture of the Mind 64
PART TWO SELF
4. Caring, Implicit Attitudes, and the Self 101
5. Reflection, Responsibility, and Fractured Selves 123
PART THREE ETHICS
6. Deliberation and Spontaneity 153
7. The Habit Stance 177
8. Conclusion 206
Appendix: Measures, Methods, and Psychological Science 211
References 233
Index 257

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’m so grateful for the generous, supportive, and incisive feedback I’ve received
over the years, on this and related projects, from Alex Acs, Marianna Alessandri,
Louise Antony, Mahzarin Banaji, Michael Brent, Lawrence Buell, Brent Cebul,
Jason D’Cruz, James Dow, Yarrow Dunhum, Ellen Fridland, Katie Gasdaglis,
Bertram Gawronski, Maggie Gram, Daniel Harris, Sally Haslanger, Jules Holroyd,
Bryce Huebner, Zachary Irving, Gabbrielle Johnson, Eric Katz, Sean Kelly, Julian
Kiverstein, Joshua Knobe, Victor Kumar, Benedek Kurdi, Calvin Lai, Carole Lee,
Edouard Machery, Eric Mandelbaum, Kenny Marotta, Christia Mercer, Eliot
Michaelson, John Morrison, Myrto Mylopolous, Brian Nosek, Keith Payne,
Jonathan Phillips, Jeremy Pober, Emily Remus, Luis Rivera, Laurie Rudman, Hagop
Sarkissian, Eric Schwitzgebel, Claire Seiler, Rena Seltzer, Paschal Sheeran, Robin
Sheffler, David Shoemaker, Susanna Siegel, Nico Silins, Holly Smith, Chandra
Sripada, Alex Stehn, Shannon Sullivan, Joseph Sweetman, Virginia Valian, Natalia
Washington, Thomas Webb, Alison Wylie, Sunny Yang, and Robin Zheng.
Many thanks, too, to Peter Ohlin, Lacey Davidson, Mary Becker, and two anony-
mous reviewers for Oxford University Press. You have helped to improve this book
in countless ways. Taylor Carman and John Christman gracefully tolerated ham-
handed earlier attempts to work out the ideas contained herein. Thank you to both,
now that I’ve worked it all out flawlessly . . .
I owe extra- special thanks to Daniel Kelly, Tamar Gendler, and Jennifer Saul,
each of whom is an inspiration and a role model. And I owe extra- special super-
duper thanks to Alex Madva, my one- in- a- million collaborator. You flipped- turned
my life upside down, so just take a minute, sit right there, and consider yourself the
prince of this affair.
Mom, Dad, Erick, and Carrie: I can’t promise it’s worth looking, but you’ll find
yourselves in here. Thank you for unwavering love and support.
Above all, my deepest thanks to Reine, Leda, Iggy, and Minerva. I love you,
I love you, I love you, and I love you too.
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viii Acknowledgments
Parts of the book were conceived, written, and revised with support— for
which I’m very grateful— from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Leverhulme Trust. Some of the
material in this book has appeared in print previously in an earlier form. In par-
ticular, some of the examples in Chapter 1 were presented in Brownstein (2014)
and Brownstein and Madva (2012a,b). Chapter 2 is a much- expanded version of
part of Brownstein and Madva (2012b). Also in Chapter 2, an earlier version of
§4 appeared in Brownstein (2017) and an earlier version of part of §4.2 appeared
in Brownstein and Madva (2012a). Parts of §3 and §5 in Chapter 3 are derived
from Brownstein and Madva (2012a,b), and parts of §6 were published in a differ-
ent form in Madva and Brownstein (2016). Parts of Chapters 4 and 5 are derived
from Brownstein (2014). In Chapter 4 as well, an earlier version of §4.1 appeared
in Brownstein and Madva (2012a), and an earlier version of §4.2 appeared in
Brownstein (2014). Some parts of Chapter 7 are derived from Brownstein (2016)
and a few passages of the Appendix are derived from Brownstein (2015). I’m grate-
ful to these presses and to my co- author, Alex Madva, for permission to edit and
develop our collaborative work here.
The Implicit Mind