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Item Details
Title:
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MIND AND SUPERMIND
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By: |
Keith Frankish |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£85.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0511487509 |
ISBN 13: |
9780511487507 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
22 September, 2009 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
Description: |
This book offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. |
Synopsis: |
Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which have different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation. Building on this claim, he develops a picture of the human mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind, and shows how the resulting account sheds light on a number of puzzling phenomena and helps to vindicate folk psychology. Topics discussed include the function of conscious thought, the cognitive role of natural language, the relation between partial and flat-out belief, the possibility of active belief formation, and the nature of akrasia, self-deception and first-person authority. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists. |
Illustrations: |
2 b/w illus. 2 tables |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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