Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198248507
Publisert
1990
Utgiver
Vendor
Clarendon Press
Vekt
537 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
322
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`Lehrer takes a further step toward reviving Thomas Reid's thinking-and, in my view, definitely succeeds in this endeavor.'
Systems Practice, Vol. 6
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.
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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.
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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.
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`Lehrer takes a further step toward reviving Thomas Reid's thinking-and, in my view, definitely succeeds in this endeavor.'
Systems Practice, Vol. 6
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198248507
Publisert
1990
Utgiver
Vendor
Clarendon Press
Vekt
537 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
322
Forfatter