Can machines think? Do animals have beliefs? These questions and many others are answered in this sequel to "Brainstorms". Dennett deals with philosophy of mind...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
"Breaking the Spell" is Daniel Dennett's most innovative and important work yet; it offers a profound challenge to society and a compelling new history of belief. Few forces in the world are as potent as religion: it comforts people in their suffering and inspires them to both magnificent and terrible deeds. In this provocative and timely book...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience...more details Format:Paperback Pages:528
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Daniel Dennett
ISBN:9781166990817
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:292
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Nikola Grahek;Daniel Dennett
ISBN:9780262072830
In "Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, " Nikola Grahek examines two of the most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in human pain experience: pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain. Grahek shows that these two syndromes--the complete dissociation of the sensory dimension of pain from its affective...more details Format:Hardback Pages:181
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262540902
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on the philosphy of mind...more details Format:Paperback Pages:430
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262041669
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on the philosphy of mind...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:430
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262540377
This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments...more details Format:Paperback Pages:377
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Dennett Daniel C
ISBN:9780141017778
Few forces in the world are as potent as religion: it comforts people in their suffering and inspires them to both magnificent and terrible deeds. In this provocative and timely book...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:480
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780143038337
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyaand howait has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780670034727
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future For a growing number of people...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:448
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Daniel C Dennett;Dennett Daniel
ISBN:9780415104319
A pioneering work in the philosophy of mind, "Content and Consciousness" brings together the approaches of philosophers and scientists to the mind--a connection that must occur if genuine analysis of the mind is to be made...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780415567862
Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work...more details Format:Paperback Pages:241
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9781417719624
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of "The Boston Globe" calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet...more details
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780684824710
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of "The Boston Globe" calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet...more details Format:Paperback Pages:592
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262540421
Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett...more details Format:Paperback Pages:212
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780142003848
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers ayes a Using an array of provocative formulations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Dennett Daniel C
ISBN:9780140283891
Daniel Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Dennett Daniel C
ISBN:9780713993394
In this text, Daniel Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found only in one species - us. There was a time on this planet when it didn't exist...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
How are we able to understand each other in our daily interactions? Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Daniel C Dennett;Danile C Dennett
ISBN:9780465073511
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Maxwell Bennett;Peter Dennett DanielHacker
ISBN:9780231140447
In "Neuroscience and Philosophy" three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's "Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience" (Blackwell...more details Format:Hardback Pages:215
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262541916
Winner in the Psychology & Cognitive Science catagory of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:199
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Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262042253
Winner in the Psychology & Cognitive Science catagory of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:216
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Douglas R Hofstadter;Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780465030910
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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Robert M French;Daniel C Dennett
ISBN:9780262061803
Foreword by Daniel Dennett While it is fashionable today to dismiss the "bad old days" of artificial intelligence and rave about emergent self-organizing systems...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:206