Metamind
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:14th Jun '90
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
`Lehrer takes a further step toward reviving Thomas Reid's thinking-and, in my view, definitely succeeds in this endeavor.' Systems Practice, Vol. 6
ISBN: 9780198248507
Dimensions: 225mm x 147mm x 24mm
Weight: 537g
322 pages