Keith (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Lehrer
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Keith (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Lehrer,
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Keith Lehrer
e druk, 1990
9780198248507
Metamind
Specificaties
Gebonden, 322 blz.
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Engels
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1990
ISBN13: 9780198248507
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
The essays in this book, published here as a collection for the first time, are unified by the thesis that freedom, rationality, social consensus, and knowledge depend on thoughts about thoughts, that is, on metamental operations. These provide for our optionality, plasticity, and most of all for the evaluation and control of lower-level information. The collection argues that the human mind is essentially a metamind.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780198248507
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:322
Inhoudsopgave
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; Index.