Thought in action [electronic resource] : expertise and the conscious mind / Barbara Gail Montero.
Montero, Barbara Gail, author.
2016
BF441 .M66 2016eb
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Title Thought in action [electronic resource] : expertise and the conscious mind / Barbara Gail Montero.
Author Montero, Barbara Gail, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780191822308 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596775
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages)
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596775 doi
Call Number BF441 .M66 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 153.42
Summary It is widely held that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. But is this true? Barbara Gail Montero explores real-life examples and draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature to develop a theory of expertise that emphasises the role of the conscious mind in expert action.
Note It is widely held that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. But is this true? Barbara Gail Montero explores real-life examples and draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature to develop a theory of expertise that emphasises the role of the conscious mind in expert action.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Acknowledgments. Introduction: what can a philosopher tell you about expertise?
"Don't think, dear; just do" and other manifestations of the just-do-it principle
Just-do-it versus cognition-in-action
What is an expert?
Does thinking interfere with doing?
Thinking fast
Continuous improvement
You can't try too hard
Effortlessness with effort
The pleasure of movement and the awareness of the self
The aesthetic experience of expert movement
Intuition, rationality, and chess expertise
Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the meaning of life. Bibliography
Index.

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