Mind and Supermind [Paperback]

This book offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind.This book is about the architecture of the human mind. It portrays the mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind--the former non-conscious and nonlinguistic, the latter conscious and language-involving. It argues that philosophers and psychologists have failed to distinguish these levels properly, and that this failure has stood in the way of the successful explanation of a number of puzzling mental phenomena. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists.This book is about the architecture of the human mind. It portrays the mind as a two-level structure, consisting of a basic mind and a supermind--the former non-conscious and nonlinguistic, the latter conscious and language-involving. It argues that philosophers and psychologists have failed to distinguish these levels properly, and that this failure has stood in the way of the successful explanation of a number of puzzling mental phenomena. This book will be valuable for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists.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.List of figures; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Divisions in folk psychology; 3. Challenges and precedents; 4. The premising machine; 5. Superbelief and the supermind; 6. Propositional modularity; 7. Conceptual modularity; 8. Further applications; Conclusion; Referenl#)