Keith Frankish | |
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| Born | 7 November (year?) South Yorkshire, England |
| Alma mater | The Open University, University of Sheffield, MA Philosophy (1996), PhD Philosophy (2003) |
| Spouse | Maria Kasmirli |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Honorary 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 |
| Thesis | Mind and supermind a two-level framework for folk psychology |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Carruthers, Christopher Hookway |
Main interests | Philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | Illusionism |
| Website | keithfrankish |
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.