The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition
J. Robert Thompson, "The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition "
English | ISBN: 0367857189 | 2022 | 424 pages | EPUB | 1276 KB
English | ISBN: 0367857189 | 2022 | 424 pages | EPUB | 1276 KB
Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so. Yet some of our actions do not fit this mold―they seem to arise from motives and thoughts that appear outside of our control and our self-awareness. Rather than treating such cases as outliers, theorists now treat significant parts of the mind as operating implicitly or ‘behind the scenes’. Mental faculties like reasoning, language, and memory seem to involve this sort of implicit cognition, and many of the structures we use to understand one another seem infused with biases, perceptions, and stereotypes that have implicit features.
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