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Modern study of the mind is marked by the hegemony of thought, dominance of consciousness, and dictate of deliberation that result in an overwhelming intellectualism. However, it ignores the fundamental fact that by far most of our mental activity is not manifested in explicit reasoning, and is mostly not conscious. What then enables our successful participation in the natural, social, and cultural surroundings without recourse to the 'higher' cognitive processes? The background. It is the implicit and efficacious guide in human coping with the world without the monitoring reason. Yet how rules turn into routines? How conscious efforts convert into unreflective skills? How does the body of knowledge become the knowing body? How can most complex reactions of the human mind turn into 'just doing'? The lesson from the background teaches us that we are capacitated to do more than we explicitly know; the sort of knowledge is skilled and automated competence which is there before the conscious 'self' can report of its emergence.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Knowing without Thinking
• Subtitle: Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background
• Author: Z. Radman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780230285132
• ISBN: 0230285139
• ID: 04553521
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 448 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 217 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. February 2012

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