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Mind and Supermind

By Keith Frankish

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521812038, 9780521812030
Open Library ID
OL17724557M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1207784 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages
270\271
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Portraying the mind as a two-level structure, this book analyzes the architecture of the human mind. Thus, it demonstrates that the mind consists of a basic mind and a supermind--the former non-conscious and non-linguistic, the latter conscious and language-involving. Claiming that philosophers and psychologists have failed to distinguish these levels, Keith Frankish argues that this failure has stood in the way of the successful explanation of a number of puzzling mental phenomena. His book will be valued by philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists.

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