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Content and Consciousness Revisited
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 animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Content and Consciousness Revisited is devoted to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced i...
Just the Arguments
Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop. A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy The first book of its kind to present the most important and influential philosophical arguments in a clear premise/conclusion format, the language that philosophers use and students are expected to know Offers succinct expositions of key philosophical arguments without bogging them down in commentary Translates difficult texts to core arguments Designed to provides a quick and compact reference to everything from Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God, to the metaphysical possibilities of a zombie world
I've Been Thinking
“How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion Daniel C. Dennett—preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist—has spent his career creating the basis for a naturalistic account of consciousness with acumen and elegance. I’ve Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett’s own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers. Dennett’s restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in Beirut to Harvard, and from Parisian jazz clubs to “tillosophy” on his tractor in Maine. Along the way, he reveals the breakthroughs and ...
Ist der Mensch ein Computer?
Wie passen die Vorstellung einer Seele und die wissenschaftlich anerkannte physikalische Realität zueinander? Was sind wir Menschen? Und was zeichnet uns als solche aus? Dieses Buch stellt die Antworten des amerikanischen Philosophen Daniel C. Dennett auf diese Fragen vor sowie die Kritik seines Kollegen Thomas Nagel. Dennett hinterfragt unsere tiefsten Überzeugungen über das Wesen von Geist und Bewusstsein. Er sieht in den Menschen letztlich Maschinen und in ihren Gehirnen biologische Formen von Computern. Nagel dagegen beharrt auf der Besonderheit der subjektiven Perspektive des Menschen. Er sieht in ihm ein Wesen mit einem Bewusstsein, das ihn dem rein Physikalischen enthebt. Heute, da die Forschung zu Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) überraschende Erfolge verbucht, sind Dennetts und Nagels Überlegungen aktueller denn je. Wenn Selbstbewusstsein, Intelligenz, Intentionalität, Gefühl und Wahrnehmung nur physikalische Phänomene sind, können sie dann auch künstlich im Computer rekonstruiert werden? Dennetts und Nagels Philosophie bieten fruchtbare Ansätze für diese Debatte.
He estado pensando
Extraordinaria autobiografía vital e intelectual de uno de los grandes filósofos de nuestro tiempo. Daniel Dennett, preeminente filósofo y científico cognitivo, dedicó su larga carrera a descifrar los misterios más espinosos y fundamentales de la mente. ¿Tenemos libre albedrío? ¿Qué es la conciencia y cómo surgió? ¿Qué distingue la mente humana de la de los animales? Sus respuestas han marcado profundamente nuestra era de pensamiento filosófico. He estado pensando traza el desarrollo del intelecto del propio Dennett y nos instruye sobre cómo podemos convertirnos cada uno de nosotros en buenos pensadores. La incesante curiosidad de Dennett le lleva de su infancia en Beirut y l...
