Vierkant: Precis for The Tinkering Mind

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about The Tinkering Mind! I have been bothered by the question of how important intentional action is for epistemic agency for a long time. I have long tried to make sense of notions like free will and agency in the age of cognitive science and have often found that the role of intentional action in epistemic agency is puzzling here. The question of how central intentional action can be in this context comes up in areas as diverse as self-control and willpower, choice and decisions as well as in the literature on dual processing and cognitive control. The Tinkering Mind is my attempt to identify and bring together what confused me in all of these diverse fields.