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Daniel C. Dennett
One of philosophy's finest minds looks back over a life in thought
'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?'
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher…
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"How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." -Richard Dawkins
A memoir by one of the greatest minds of…
Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined…
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One of the world’s most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind
What is human consciousness and how is it possible…
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What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind evolutionary instinct or of rational choice? Is the only way to live a good life through…
Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University)
A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work. -Nature
In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the…
Professor David L. Thompson
Daniel Dennett is one of America’s most important and influential contemporary philosophers. He has made considerable contributions to the philosophy of mind and to evolutionary thought. This book offers an…
A new title in Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Daniel Dennett is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on one of the world’s most…
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This introductory collection explores the implications of Dennett’s diverse body of work.
An introductory collection that explores the implications of Dennett’s diverse body of work.
A few of us may be natural geniuses; others are blessed with reserves of willpower. Then there’s the rest of us: not prodigies and short on time, but still aspiring…
Blending ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, this discussion explores such questions as: Can we really know what is going on in someone else’s mind? Could a robot be…
Daniel C. Dennett (Professor, Tufts University)
A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism.
An anniversary edition of a classic in cognitive science, with a new introduction by the author.
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The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett explores the intellectual significance of Daniel C. Dennett’s 45 years of philosophical research, while providing a critical and constructive overview of Dennett’s stance-based methodology and…
Daniel Dennett, Moritz Strasser
With the release of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have become a prominent topic of international public and scientific debate. The genie is out of the bottle, but does it…
Daniel Dennett
This guidebook provides detailed information on the geography, resources, and people of Louisiana, with a special focus on agriculture.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important…
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Christopher S. Hill
Contributors: Lynne Rudder Baker, Ned Block, Fred Dretske, Ivan Fox, Joseph Levine, Eric Lormand, Jeff McConnell, Brian P. McLaughlin, John O'Leary-Hawthorne, Georges Rey, Mark Richard, David M. Rosenthal, Carol Rovane…
What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are…
THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Upanishads, by G. R. S. Mead. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802777.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Matthew Elton
* A highly original introduction to contemporary thinking about the relationship between mind and science. * This is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett’s ideas on the nature of thought…
Daniel Dennett is one of the most influential thinkers at the interface between philosophy and science. This book is a comprehensive examination of Dennett’s ideas on the nature of thought…
One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
Louisiana As It Is: Its Topography And Material Resources is a book written by Daniel Dennett in 1876. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Louisiana, including…
In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind.
Daniel Clement Dennett
Nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, this masterly exploration reaffirms the validity of Darwin’s theory of natural selection and brilliantly demonstrates its compatibility with free will, sacred…
As in his previous books, Dennett weaves a richly detailed narrative enlivened by analogies as entertaining as they are challenging. Here is the story of how mankind came to be…
Through the use of such folk concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, Daniel Dennett asserts in this first full scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has…
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social. This book collects together the essays of Daniel Dennett on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive ethology that appeared…
The author of Consciousness Explained revises and renews his Multiple Drafts Model of consciousness in the light of recent research.
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why people believe in God and how religion shapes lives and futures by taking a look at history, philosophy, and psychology.
Argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of life without devaluing our most cherished beliefs. In this book, the author explores every aspect of evolutionary thinking to…
Explores how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness. This title explains how science has exploded the…
Elucidates a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought - the relationship of the mind and body. This work develops a theory of the human mind and consciousness…
The best new book I’ve read. -Richard Dawkins, New York Times Book Review
Daniel C. Dennett,Douglas R. Hofstadter
From some of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers, this work contains essays on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness.
Charlotte Dennett
In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s sole Master Spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his…
‘Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events… . This is an amazing piece of historical writing… . Students…
