# Précis of The Philosophy of Metacognition JOËLLE PROUST **Opening (not a real abstract):** This book deals with metacognition, that is: with the epistemic self-evaluation that allows mental agents to predict whether they will be able to remember a proper name, to discriminate an object, to solve a given problem etc., and to retrospectively evaluate whether their cognitive outputs (what they seem to remember, to discriminate, to demonstrate) are likely to be valid. There has been for several years an important controversy among psychologists and philosophers about the best definition of the concept of metacognition, based on a number of assumptions concerning mental architecture, consciousness, the continuity or discontinuity between humans and nonhumans, and the respective roles, in self-evaluation, of beliefs and feelings. On a classical view, dating back to pioneering articles by James Flavell and by **Authors:** [[JOËLLE PROUST]]