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Ladataan... I've Been ThinkingTekijä: Daniel C. Dennett
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. "Meaning, consciousness, and free will are entirely natural achievements, ... the product of billions of years of natural selection" (p 386). And religious faith is a "cognitive disability" that gives people a "gold-plated excuse to stop thinking" (p 391). Right on! In this terrific memoir, veteran Tufts-University philosopher Dennett provides a lot of background detail for his influential works of the past, including the books _Consciousness Explained_ (the first one read by me), _Darwin's Dangerous Idea_, _Freedom Evolves_, _Breaking the Spell_, and _From Bacteria to Bach and Back_. Much more about his professional activities and travels is recounted, mixed in with accounts of personal pursuits such as farming and sailing.
Throughout his career, philosopher Daniel Dennett has combined arrogant speculation about science with his conservative philosophical assumptions. His recent attempts to pettily settle scores in his memoir only confirm his backward worldview.
Biography & Autobiography.
Philosophy.
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HTML: "How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." â??Richard Dawkins 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 his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations. Dennett's relentless curiosity has taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to "Cognitive Cruises" on sailboats and the fields and orchards of Maine, and to laboratories and think tanks around the world. Along the way, I've Been Thinking provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive scienceâ??including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AIâ??and reveals both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped Dennett's theories. Key to this journey are Dennett's interlocutorsâ??Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Willard Van Orman Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Gerald Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Fodor, Rodney Brooks, and moreâ??whose ideas, even when he disagreed with them, helped to form his convictions about the mind and consciousness. Studded with photographs and told with characteristic warmth, I've Been Thinking also instills the value of life beyond the university, one enriched by sculpture, music, farming, and deep connection to family. Dennett compels us to consider: What do I really think? And what if I'm wrong? This memoir by one of the greatest minds of our time will speak to anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind with adventure and c Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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