Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so. Yet some of our actions do not fit this mold—they seem to arise from motives and thoughts that appear outside of our control and our self-awareness. Rather than treating such cases as outliers, theorists now treat significant parts of the mind as operating implicitly or ‘behind the scenes’. Mental faculties like reasoning, language, and memory seem to involve this sort of implicit cognition, and many of the structures we use to understand one another seem infused with biases, perceptions, and stereotypes that have implicit features.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition
is an outstanding guide and reference source to this important topic. Composed of more than thirty chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight clear parts:
- Defining Features? Identifying Implicitness Among Cognate Notions
- The Nature and Limits of Implicit Processing
- Ways of Perceiving, Knowing, Believing
- Language
- Agency and Control
- Social Cognition
- Memory
- Learning and Reasoning.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition
is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of psychology, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics.
Comprising 31 chapters by a superb international team of contributors, the Handbook will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy of psychology, moral psychology and philosophy of mind as well as related disciplines such as psychology and cognitive science.
Introduction: In Search of the Implicit J. Robert Thompson Part 1:
Defining Features? Identifying implicitness among cognate notions
1. Implicit
Mental Representation William Ramsey
2. Measuring and Modeling Implicit
Cognition Samuel A.W. Klein and Jeffrey W. Sherman
3. Implicit Cognition and
Unconscious Mentality Tim Crane and J. Robert Thompson
4. Implicit Cognition
in Relation to the Conceptual/Nonconceptual Distinction José Luis Bermúdez
and Arnon Cahen
5. The Fragmented Mind: Personal and Subpersonal Approaches
to Implicit Mental States Zoe Drayson
6. The Levels Metaphor and the
Implicit/Explicit Distinction Judith Carlisle Part 2: The Nature and Limits
of Implicit Processing
7. Implicit Cognition, Dual Process Theory, and Moral
Judgment Charlie Blunden, Paul Rehren and Hanno Sauer
8. Implicit Bias and
Processing Ema Sullivan-Bissett
9. Predictive Processing, Implicit and
Explicit Pawe Gadziejewski
10. Cognitive Penetration and Implicit Cognition
Lucas Battich and Ophelia Deroy Part 3: Ways of Perceiving, Knowing,
Believing
11. Helmholtz on Unconscious Inference in Experience Lydia Patton
12. Husserl on Habit, Horizons, and Background Dermot Moran
13. Polanyi and
Tacit Knowledge Stephen Turner
14. Tacit Knowledge Tim Thornton
15.
Collective and Distributed Knowledge: Studies of Expertise and Experience
Harry Collins
16. Implicit Beliefs Joseph Bendaña
17. Implicit Self-knowledge
Kristina Musholt Part 4: Language
18. Chomsky, Cognizing, and Tacit Knowledge
John Collins
19. Language Processing: Making it implicit? David Pereplyotchik
20. Implicit Knowledge in Pragmatic Inference Chris Cummins and Albertyna
Paciorek Part 5: Agency and Control
21. Implicit Mechanisms in Action and in
the Experience of Agency Sofia Bonicalzi
22. Implicit Cognition and
Addiction: Selected Recent Findings and Theory Reinout W. Wiers and Alan W.
Stacy
23. Phenomenology, Psychopathology, and Pre-Reflective Experience
Anthony Vincent Fernandez Part 6: Social Cognition
24. Race and the Implicit
Aspects of Embodied Social Interaction Jasper St. Bernard and Shaun Gallagher
25. Implicit Social Cognition Shannon Spaulding
26. The Development of
Implicit Theory of Mind Hannes Rakoczy Part 7: Memory
27. Implicit Memory
Sarah K. Robins
28. Memory During Failures of Recall: Information that is
Forgotten is not Gone Anne M. Cleary Part 8: Learning and Reasoning
29.
Implicit Reasoning Uljana Feest and Thomas Sturm
30. Implicit Knowledge of
(parts of) Logic, and how to make it Explicit Keith Stenning and Michiel van
Lambalgen
31. What is it like to Learn Implicitly? Arnaud Destrebecqz. Index
J. Robert Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University, USA. He studies implicit phenomena as they arise within the fields of developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of language.
