Keith Frankish

Keith Frankish
Born7 November (year?)
South Yorkshire, England
Alma materThe Open University, University of Sheffield, MA Philosophy (1996), PhD Philosophy (2003)
SpouseMaria Kasmirli
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsHonorary Reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete
ThesisMind and supermind a two-level framework for folk psychology
Doctoral advisorPeter Carruthers, Christopher Hookway
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas
Illusionism
Websitekeithfrankish.com
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Keith Frankish is a British philosopher specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of cognitive science. He is an Honorary Reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, and adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete. He is known for his "illusionist" stance in the theory of consciousness. He holds that the conscious mind is a virtual system, a trick of the biological mind. In other words, phenomenality is an introspective illusion.[1] This position is in opposition to dualist theories, reductive realist theories, and panpsychism.

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