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Metamind
New York: Oxford University Press (1990)
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In this collection of essays, Lehrer argues that freedom, rationality, consensus, and knowledge depend on "metamental" operations--thoughts about thoughts--and are impossible without them. Metamental operations provide for our optionality, plasticity, and most of all, for the evaluation and control of lower-level information. The human mind, he argues, is essentially a metamind.Author's Profile
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Introduction
This book examines freedom, rational acceptance, social consensus, the analysis of knowledge, and Thomas Reid's philosophy of mind. What could possibly unify such a diverse collection of intellectual reflections? An idea about the human mind as a metamind, is the answer. Human freedom, rat... see more
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