The Philosophy of Metacognition: Mental Agency and Self-Awareness

1. Introduction 2. An evaluativist proposal: cognitive control and metacognition 3. Metacognition as cognition about cognition: attributive views 4. Metacognition or metarepresentation? A critical discussion of attributivism 5. Primate metacognition 6. A representational format for procedural metacognition 7. Mental acts as natural kinds 8. The norms of acceptance 9. Epistemic agency and metacognition: an externalist view 10. Is there a sense of agency for thought? 11. The sense of self as the same 12. Experience of agency in schizophrenia 13. Conversational metacognition 14. Dual-system metacognition and new challenges Glossay References