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Metamind / Keith Lehrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehrer, Keith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Metacognition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this book are unified by the thesis that freedom rationality, consensus, and knowledge depend on thoughts about thoughts, that is, on metamental operations. Metamental operations provide for our optionality, plasticity, and for the evaluation and control of lower-level information.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An empirical disproof of determinism?
- A possible worlds analysis of freedom
- Preferences, conditionals, and freedom
- Induction, rational acceptance, and minimally inconsistent sets
- Induction, evidence, and conceptual change
- Reason and consistency
- Consensual rationality and scientific revolution
- Coherence and the hierarchy of method
- The knowledge cycle
- The coherence theory of knowledge
- Metaknowledge : undefeated justification
- Metamind : belief, consciousness, and intentionality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-168114-8
- 0-19-824850-4
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