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Does Metacognition - The Capacity To Self-evaluate One's Cognitive Performance - Derive From A Mindreading Capacity, Or Does It Rely On Informational Processes? Joëlle Proust Draws On Psychology And Neuroscience To Defend The Second Claim. She Argues That Metacognition Need Not Involve Metarepresentations And Is Essentially Related To Mental Agency. Machine Generated Contents Note: 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. Thinking Of Oneself As The Same -- 12. Experience Of Agency In Schizophrenia -- 13. Conversational Metacognition -- 14. Dual-system Metacognition And New Challenges. Joëlle Proust. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.