Mind and supermind / Keith Frankish.

Call Number	128.2
Author	Frankish, Keith, author.///
Title	Mind and supermind / Keith Frankish. Mind & Supermind
Physical Description	1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in philosophy
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction -- Divisions in folk psychology -- Challenges and precedents -- The premising machine -- Superbelief and the supermind -- Propositional modularity -- Conceptual modularity -- Further applications.
Summary	Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which have different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation. Building on this claim, he develops a picture of the human mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind, and shows how the resulting account sheds light on a number of puzzling phenomena and helps to vindicate folk psychology. Topics discussed include the function of conscious thought, the cognitive role of natural language, the relation between partial and flat-out belief, the possibility of active belief formation, and the nature of akrasia, self-deception and first-person authority. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists.
Subject	PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487507

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Summary	Mind and Supermind offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. Keith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which have different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation. Building on this claim, he develops a picture of the human mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind, and shows how the resulting account sheds light on a number of puzzling phenomena and helps to vindicate folk psychology. Topics discussed include the function of conscious thought, the cognitive role of natural language, the relation between partial and flat-out belief, the possibility of active belief formation, and the nature of akrasia, self-deception and first-person authority. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction -- Divisions in folk psychology -- Challenges and precedents -- The premising machine -- Superbelief and the supermind -- Propositional modularity -- Conceptual modularity -- Further applications.
Subject	PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487507