Funding and institutional context channel what attention science can discover

Evidence

Are we saying that if a bunch of Buddhist monks in Nepal had been given, in 1940, the entire research budget of the U.S. military to do scientific research on “attention” for forty years, we would have a very different “science” of human attention? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 137

Categorization

• QUESTION: A live thought-experiment central to testing the book’s whole thesis — is ‘attention’ a natural kind or a socially-constituted object that differs by who funds its study?
• XREF: Parallels the scientific-objectivity debates from the Frankfurt material (Horkheimer’s critique of positivism’s nature-control interest) and feminist standpoint theory.