Full name: Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind

Author: Bo Dahlbom Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780631196785 9780631185499 0631196781 0631185496

Daniel Dennett is arguably one of the most influential yet radical philosophers in America today. In this volume, Dennett is confronted by colleagues and critics, from philosophy, biology and psychology. His reply constitutes an extensive essay which clarifies, and develops further, central themes in his philosophy. The debate ranges over Dennett's whole corpus, but special attention is given to his major work on consciousness, Consciousness Explained. The volume includes a critical assessement of Dennett's views on behaviouralism and the subjectivity of consciousness, the nature of perception and mental representation, intentional laws and computational psychology, the rationality of thought, culture as a virus, the architecture of mind, and the role of artifacts in thinking. Also included is an introduction to Dennett's philosophy and a full bibliography of his publications. Similar books: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith The Warrior Within by John Little Nietzsche and Zen by Andre van der Braak Luhmann Explained by Hans-Georg Moeller Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis Nothing Matters by Ronald Green The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy by Stephen P. Schwartz How to Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille