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Barbara Gail Montero's Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind is a substantial contribution to our philosophical understanding of expertise, skill, and indeed the relationship between mind and body generally. Her views on expertise may well represent the next stage in the evolution of this concept. In what seems like a sea of contrary views of skilled practice and proficiency, Montero swims gracefully against the tide of much stubborn technical and popular punditry according to which expertise is unmindful if not outright mindless. Both students and expertsin Montero's sense or any othershould find this book amply rewarding . . . Overall, Montero's book is an impressive achievement, an insightful, often delightful read. I highly recommend it. * Jason Holt, Metapsychology * This is an impressive book with ramifications that go far beyond aesthetics . . . Those who are interested in how arts performers perform expertly must read this book. It is groundbreaking, and it will change your lives since even if you do not agree you will have to deal with it. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Thought in Action is convincing in its overall argument that philosophers and psychologists are mistaken when they denigrate the usefulness of conscious thought to optimal expert performance. And it also provides a detailed discussion of kinds of expert performance - in dance, athletics, music, medicine, and chess - that will be of interest to those who work in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and action theory, whatever their concern with this overall thesis. * Joseph Mendola, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Barbara Gail Montero's Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind is a substantial contribution to our philosophical understanding of expertise, skill, and indeed the relationship between mind and body generally. Her views on expertise may well represent the next stage in the evolution of this concept. In what seems like a sea of contrary views of skilled practice and proficiency, Montero swims gracefully against the tide of much stubborn technical and popular punditry according to which expertise is unmindful if not outright mindless. Both students and expertsin Montero's sense or any othershould find this book amply rewarding . . . Overall, Montero's book is an impressive achievement, an insightful, often delightful read. I highly recommend it. * Jason Holt, Metapsychology * This is an impressive book with ramifications that go far beyond aesthetics . . . Those who are interested in how arts performers perform expertly must read this book. It is groundbreaking, and it will change your lives since even if you do not agree you will have to deal with it. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Thought in Action is convincing in its overall argument that philosophers and psychologists are mistaken when they denigrate the usefulness of conscious thought to optimal expert performance. And it also provides a detailed discussion of kinds of expert performance - in dance, athletics, music, medicine, and chess - that will be of interest to those who work in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and action theory, whatever their concern with this overall thesis. * Joseph Mendola, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Barbara Montero's book, Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind, is a welcome investigation into expertise and the role of cognition in its expression. * Wayne Wu, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *

Barbara Montero's book, Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind, is a welcome investigation into expertise and the role of cognition in its expression. * Wayne Wu, Australasian Journal of Philosophy * Thought in Action is convincing in its overall argument that philosophers and psychologists are mistaken when they denigrate the usefulness of conscious thought to optimal expert performance. And it also provides a detailed discussion of kinds of expert performance -- in dance, athletics, music, medicine, and chess -- that will be of interest to those who work in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and action theory, whatever their concern with this overall thesis. * Joseph Mendola, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This is an impressive book with ramifications that go far beyond aesthetics . . . Those who are interested in how arts performers perform expertly must read this book. It is groundbreaking, and it will change your lives since even if you do not agree you will have to deal with it. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Barbara Gail Montero's Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind is a substantial contribution to our philosophical understanding of expertise, skill, and indeed the relationship between mind and body generally. Her views on expertise may well represent the next stage in the evolution of this concept. In what seems like a sea of contrary views of skilled practice and proficiency, Montero swims gracefully against the tide of much stubborn technical and popular punditry according to which expertise is unmindful if not outright mindless. Both students and expertsin Montero's sense or any othershould find this book amply rewarding . . . Overall, Montero's book is an impressive achievement, an insightful, often delightful read. I highly recommend it. * Jason Holt, Metapsychology *

Barbara Montero's book, Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind, is a welcome investigation into expertise and the role of cognition in its expression. * Wayne Wu, Australasian Journal of Philosophy * Thought in Action is convincing in its overall argument that philosophers and psychologists are mistaken when they denigrate the usefulness of conscious thought to optimal expert performance. And it also provides a detailed discussion of kinds of expert performance - in dance, athletics, music, medicine, and chess - that will be of interest to those who work in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and action theory, whatever their concern with this overall thesis. * Joseph Mendola, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This is an impressive book with ramifications that go far beyond aesthetics . . . Those who are interested in how arts performers perform expertly must read this book. It is groundbreaking, and it will change your lives since even if you do not agree you will have to deal with it. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Barbara Gail Montero's Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind is a substantial contribution to our philosophical understanding of expertise, skill, and indeed the relationship between mind and body generally. Her views on expertise may well represent the next stage in the evolution of this concept. In what seems like a sea of contrary views of skilled practice and proficiency, Montero swims gracefully against the tide of much stubborn technical and popular punditry according to which expertise is unmindful if not outright mindless. Both students and expertsin Montero's sense or any othershould find this book amply rewarding . . . Overall, Montero's book is an impressive achievement, an insightful, often delightful read. I highly recommend it. * Jason Holt, Metapsychology *

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Barbara Gail Montero (B.A. University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her work focuses on one or the other of two different notions of body: body as the physical or material basis of everything, and body as the moving, breathing, flesh and blood instrument that we use when we run, walk, or dance. Before entering academia, she was a professional ballet dancer.

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