15 Facts About Keith Frankish

Keith Frankish is a British philosopher specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of cognitive science.

Keith Frankish 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.

Keith Frankish is known for his "illusionist" stance in the theory of consciousness.

Keith Frankish holds that the conscious mind is a virtual system, a trick of the biological mind.

Keith Frankish's heroes were the cricketer Geoff Boycott, the fictional aviator Biggles, and the zoologist and humorous author Gerald Durrell.

Keith Frankish contemplated becoming a classicist but was later drawn to philosophy and psychology.

Keith Frankish chose Philosophy of Mind because it encompassed most all his previous academic interests.

Keith Frankish continued at Sheffield as a doctoral student, supported by a British Academy studentship.

Keith Frankish was a senior member of Robinson College, Cambridge, and acted as a director of studies for the college, overseeing the work of the college's cohort of philosophy students.

Keith Frankish has published and edited many books and written twelve articles in refereed journals.

Keith Frankish is known for espousing the view that phenomenality is an introspective illusion.

Keith Frankish defended this position in the 2014 'consciousness cruise' off Greenland sponsored by Dimitri Volkov and the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies.

Keith Frankish labeled as "sceptics" Susan Blackmore, Nicholas Humphrey, Pete Mandik, and Eric Schwitzgebel.

Keith Frankish asserted that either illusionism collapses into realism or it introduces a deep puzzle similar to the hard problem of consciousness.

Keith Frankish has published papers on the semantics of indirect discourse and conversational implicature and co-edited a volume of research papers in philosophy of action, New Waves in Philosophy of Action.