The Dennett Quartet A Boxed Set of Brainstorms, Elbow Room, the Intentional Stance, and Brainchildren
Daniel C. Dennett, one of the pioneers who laid the foundations of the field of cognitive science, continues to inform, challenge, and stimulate. This special boxed set includes all of Dennett's MIT Press/Bradford Books volumes. The set also includes a pamphlet containing a cross-referenced index.
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (1980) :
"One of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written.... It is remarkably lucid and well written, refreshing and unpompous."
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, The New York Review of Books
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (1984):
"What Dennett ends up with is common sense refined, deepened, and nudged ever so gently toward humane, engaged rationality."
—George Scialabba, Voice Literary Supplement
The Intentional Stance (1987): How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? We adopt a stance, Dennett argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people—or other entities—we hope to understand and predict.
"...should do much to silence those biologists who believe that philosophers never have anything useful to say to them."
—Alun Anderson, Nature
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (1998): Thinking and research in cognitive science have broadened considerably since the publication of Daniel Dennett's earlier books with MIT Press. This book, which can be viewed as a kind of sequel to Brainstorms, collects Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996.
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (1980) :
"One of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written.... It is remarkably lucid and well written, refreshing and unpompous."
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, The New York Review of Books
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (1984):
"What Dennett ends up with is common sense refined, deepened, and nudged ever so gently toward humane, engaged rationality."
—George Scialabba, Voice Literary Supplement
The Intentional Stance (1987): How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? We adopt a stance, Dennett argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people—or other entities—we hope to understand and predict.
"...should do much to silence those biologists who believe that philosophers never have anything useful to say to them."
—Alun Anderson, Nature
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (1998): Thinking and research in cognitive science have broadened considerably since the publication of Daniel Dennett's earlier books with MIT Press. This book, which can be viewed as a kind of sequel to Brainstorms, collects Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996.
PhilosophyMetaphysics
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERMIT Press
LENGTH388
LANGUAGEEN
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett was a vocal atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, and a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. In 1962, Dennett married Susan Bell. They lived in North Andover, Massachusetts, and had a daughter, a son, and six grandchildren. He was an avid sailor. Dennett died of interstitial lung disease at Maine Medical Center on April 19, 2024, at the age of 82. [source: Wikipedia]
The Dennett Quartet A Boxed Set of Brainstorms, Elbow Room, the Intentional Stance, and Brainchildren
Daniel C. Dennett, one of the pioneers who laid the foundations of the field of cognitive science, continues to inform, challenge, and stimulate. This special boxed set includes all of Dennett's MIT Press/Bradford Books volumes. The set also includes a pamphlet containing a cross-referenced index.
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (1980) :
"One of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written.... It is remarkably lucid and well written, refreshing and unpompous."
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, The New York Review of Books
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (1984):
"What Dennett ends up with is common sense refined, deepened, and nudged ever so gently toward humane, engaged rationality."
—George Scialabba, Voice Literary Supplement
The Intentional Stance (1987): How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? We adopt a stance, Dennett argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people—or other entities—we hope to understand and predict.
"...should do much to silence those biologists who believe that philosophers never have anything useful to say to them."
—Alun Anderson, Nature
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (1998): Thinking and research in cognitive science have broadened considerably since the publication of Daniel Dennett's earlier books with MIT Press. This book, which can be viewed as a kind of sequel to Brainstorms, collects Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996.
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (1980) :
"One of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written.... It is remarkably lucid and well written, refreshing and unpompous."
—Douglas R. Hofstadter, The New York Review of Books
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (1984):
"What Dennett ends up with is common sense refined, deepened, and nudged ever so gently toward humane, engaged rationality."
—George Scialabba, Voice Literary Supplement
The Intentional Stance (1987): How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? We adopt a stance, Dennett argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people—or other entities—we hope to understand and predict.
"...should do much to silence those biologists who believe that philosophers never have anything useful to say to them."
—Alun Anderson, Nature
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (1998): Thinking and research in cognitive science have broadened considerably since the publication of Daniel Dennett's earlier books with MIT Press. This book, which can be viewed as a kind of sequel to Brainstorms, collects Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996.
PhilosophyMetaphysics
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERMIT Press
LENGTH388
LANGUAGEEN
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett was a vocal atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, and a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. In 1962, Dennett married Susan Bell. They lived in North Andover, Massachusetts, and had a daughter, a son, and six grandchildren. He was an avid sailor. Dennett died of interstitial lung disease at Maine Medical Center on April 19, 2024, at the age of 82. [source: Wikipedia]
