Metamind

by Keith Lehrer

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198248504
• ISBN13: 9780198248507
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 118.00 lbs.