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claimKeith Frankish is affiliated with the University of Crete’s Brain and Mind Program, which serves as a hub for researchers in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
perspectiveKeith Frankish advocates for 'illusionism' about consciousness, which is the view that phenomenality is an introspective illusion.
referenceKeith Frankish and Jonathan Evans co-edited the collection of papers titled 'In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond', which included a historical chapter co-authored by both and a paper by Frankish titled 'Systems and levels' that proposed a two-level reinterpretation of dual-process theory.
claimKeith Frankish authored a textbook on consciousness for an Open University course.
claimKeith Frankish served as the Director of the Mind, Meaning, and Rationality Research Group at The Open University.
claimKeith Frankish argues that the folk-psychological term 'belief' refers to two distinct types of mental state, which possess different properties and support different kinds of mental explanation.
accountKeith Frankish was involved in the work of the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies at the University of Sheffield.
claimKeith Frankish and Maria Kasmirli co-authored papers on the semantics of indirect discourse and conversational implicature.
claimKeith Frankish served as co-editor of the interdisciplinary web journal 'Connexions' and the weblog 'Evolving Ideas'.
perspectiveKeith Frankish advocates for the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in academic research.
referenceKeith Frankish co-edited the volume of research papers titled 'New Waves in Philosophy of Action'.
claimKeith Frankish proposed a layered model of the human mind where a biologically based 'basic mind' supports an actively constructed, conscious 'supermind'.
accountKeith Frankish prepared a target article on the topic of consciousness for a 2016 special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, which included responses from both supporters and critics of his position.
accountKeith Frankish and Jonathan Evans co-organized the first international conference dedicated specifically to dual-process theories in 2006.
perspectiveKeith Frankish argues that materialists should be thoroughgoing eliminativists about qualia, questioning the coherence of the weak conception of qualia typically employed by materialists.
claimKeith Frankish argues that the threat of eliminativism about belief diminishes once different levels of belief are distinguished.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 12 facts
perspectiveKeith Frankish argues that illusionism is preferable to eliminativism as a label for the view that phenomenal consciousness is an illusion, and that illusionism is preferable to realism about phenomenal consciousness.
quoteKeith Frankish concludes that illusionism 'replaces the hard problem with the illusion problem—the problem of explaining how the illusion of phenomenality arises and why it is so powerful.'
referenceKeith Frankish discusses a dilemma for illusionists and realists in a 2022 blog post titled 'A dilemma for illusionists — and another for realists!'.
quoteKeith Frankish states: 'Theories of consciousness typically address the hard problem. They accept that phenomenal consciousness is real and aim to explain how it comes to exist. There is, however, another approach, which holds that phenomenal consciousness is an illusion and aims to explain why it seems to exist.'
claimIllusionism is the philosophical view that phenomenal consciousness is an illusion, a term popularized by philosopher Keith Frankish in the 2010s.
referenceKeith Frankish authored 'Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness', published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2016.
accountFollowing Keith Frankish's publication of 'Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Daniel Dennett responded with a paper titled 'Illusionism as the Obvious Default Theory of Consciousness'.
claimPhilosophers Daniel Dennett, Massimo Pigliucci, Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland, and Keith Frankish, along with cognitive neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene, Bernard Baars, Anil Seth, and Antonio Damasio, reject the existence of the hard problem of consciousness.
referenceKeith Frankish authored 'Illusionism as a theory of consciousness' published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2016.
claimKeith Frankish argues that "qualia realists" must conceive of qualia as either observational or theoretical in nature, noting that if they are observational, realists cannot claim illusionists are leaving anything out of their theories, and if they are theoretical, illusionists are merely denying the theoretical components rather than the existence of qualia.
claimPatricia Churchland and Paul Churchland have applied eliminative materialism to propositional attitudes, while Daniel Dennett, Georges Rey, and Keith Frankish have applied it to qualia or phenomenal consciousness.
claimThinkers who subscribe to type-A materialism include Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish, and Thomas Metzinger.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 5 facts
claimKeith Frankish edited the collection of essays titled "Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness" (2017).
claimKeith Frankish authored the books "Mind and Supermind" (published by Cambridge University Press in 2004) and "Consciousness" (published in 2005).
claimKeith Frankish specializes in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of psychology, and the philosophy of cognitive science.
claimKeith Frankish co-edited "The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science" (2012) and "The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence" (2014) with William Ramsey.
claimKeith Frankish is a philosopher affiliated with The University of Sheffield.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectiveKeith Frankish argues that panpsychism is likely incorrect in his 2016 article 'Why Panpsychism Is Probably Wrong' published in The Atlantic.
Workspace vs integration: results starting to come in selfawarepatterns.com Jun 26, 2023 1 fact
claimKeith Frankish compared the search for neural correlates of consciousness to the search for the biological correlates of the élan vital, noting that the latter remain undiscovered.