Keith Frankish

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Keith Frankish

Visiting Researcher, The Open University

I am a philosopher and writer, currently living in Crete, Greece. I am a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, UK (where I was formerly a Senior Lecturer) and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete. I work mainly in philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind, though I have interests in many other areas of philosophy.

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Ideas: 4

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Idea/Philosophy of Mind

Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness

Keith Frankish

Idea/Philosophy of Mind

The mind isn’t locked in the brain but extends far beyond it

Keith Frankish

Idea/Knowledge

Whatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind

Keith Frankish

Idea/History of Ideas

Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure?

Keith Frankish