ABSTRACT
What is it for something to be salient to you? In this essay, I consider this question in light of the idea that you can be accountable – be it morally, rationally, or in some other way – for what is and is not salient to you. I argue that this accountability is to be explained by the fact that, in such cases at least, you have evaluative control over what is salient to you: you evaluate what matters and therein control what is salient to you. Furthermore, I argue for a particular construal of the relationship between this evaluation and what is salient to you that I call the ‘Sophisticated Constitutive View’. On this view, the salience of something to you, in the kinds of cases I am interested in, is constituted by your occurrent evaluation that it matters in the situation and emerges from your standing evaluative worldview about what matters in general.
