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‭My new book for FREE download. I am in the top 0.5% for downloads at Academic.edu and belong to a group of academics offering our work for FREE as publishers charge too much for books. https://www.academia.edu/31251026/_Meta-Philosophy_Philosophers_and_their_lack_of_Meta-Cognition ‭(‬Meta-Philosophy‭) ‬Philosophers and their lack of‭ ‬Meta-cognition Philosopher think about your own thinking ABSTRACT I explore the meta-cognitive nature,‭ ‬tools,‭ ‬self-reflection of philosophers and in so doing present the Socratic Method,‭ ‬Critical Thinking,‭ ‬Cognitive Bias/es and Fallacies.‭ ‬The first do are dealt with in the text,‭ ‬lists of types of the last two are found in the Appendix,‭ ‬as well as a number of diagrams and data the reader must try to look at and digest in his/her own way. Buster Benson sums up causes of or reasons for cognitive bias as:‭ ‬too much information‭ (‬data bombardment‭)‬,‭ ‬not enough meaning‭ (‬making sense‭)‬,‭ ‬constraint by time and information‭ (‬time and data limitations‭) ‬and what to remember‭ (‬selective memory‭) ‬-‭ ‬my words in‭ (‬brackets‭)‬.‭ ‬https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.ah90rpmw3 Everyone,‭ ‬including philosophers have cognitive survival techniques to cope with these things and consequently developed individual coping mechanisms‭ (‬for example crutch ideas:‭ ‬mine are meta-philosophy,‭ ‬-cognition,‭ ‬multiverse and intersubjectivity‭ – ‬or reflecting on everything and how I do this in a multiverse by means of intersubjective tools‭)‬.‭ ‬How do and did philosophers cope and what are their individual cognitive biases,‭ ‬of which they usually are unaware‭ (‬thus showing a lack of meta-cognition and limited self-reflection‭)? ‬What are the consequences of this for the socio-cultural practice,‭ ‬discipline and discourse of philosophy and the doing of philosophy or philosophizing‭?