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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.
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.
`Lehrer takes a further step toward reviving Thomas Reid's thinking-and, in my view, definitely succeeds in this endeavor.'Systems Practice, Vol. 6
Keith Lehrer, Center for the Philosophy of Freedom University of Arizona) Lehrer, Keith (Regents Professor Emeritus, Active Research Professor, Regents Professor Emeritus, Active Research Professor
King, KING, Maurice King, Peter C. Bewes, James Cairns, Jim Thornton, University of Leeds) King, Maurice (Department of Community Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, The Birmingham Accident Hospital) Bewes, Peter C. (Consultant Surgeon, Consultant Surgeon, Zambia) Cairns, James (Medical Superintendent/Surgeon, Medical Superintendent/Surgeon, St Francis Hospital, Katete, University of Leeds) Thornton, Jim (Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St James's Hospital, Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St James's Hospital
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, N. G. Wilson, Oxford) Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (formerly Regius Professor of Greek and Student, formerly Regius Professor of Greek and Student, Christ Church, Oxford) Wilson, N. G. (University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Fellow, Lincoln College