Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Summary: Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: In this memoir, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations, and provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--revealing both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped his theories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019