Attention and the Virtues of Mind and Heart

This year’s annual 3PR conference, Attention and the Virtues of Mind and Heart, will take place on March 28-29, 2025 at Princeton University.

What we pay attention to matters, and we should pay attention to what matters. Attention is a power we appear to have some control over; and how we choose to direct that power affects what we cognize, value, feel, and believe. However, attention is in turn subject to influence. For instance, we are all too familiar with recent concerns about ‘attentional capture’ and the ways large companies increasingly compete to monetize our attentive capacities. It is accordingly no surprise that attention has recently resurfaced as a topic of serious interest in many different philosophical traditions and subfields. The goal of this conference is to bring these different areas into productive conversation with one another. To that end, we are excited to be bringing together philosophers working on the normativity of attention in a very wide range of different traditions and subfields, ranging from philosophy of mind to ethics, Buddhist philosophy to phenomenology and 19th-20th century British philosophy, and many more.

All are welcome. If you would like to attend, please register by emailing [email protected]

Please see conference schedule on our website and register for the location.