Title: Metamind /
Authors: Lehrer, Keith.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Metacognition.
Abstract: The essays in this book are unified by the thesis that freedom rationality, consensus, and knowledge depend on thoughts about thoughts, that is, on metamental operations. Metamental operations provide for our optionality, plasticity, and for the evaluation and control of lower-level information.