| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-407) and index. |
| Summary |
"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett."--Amazon. |
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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. |
| Contents |
Prologue. Lucky Dan -- Part one. Off to a fast start : Childhood ; Music: an important digression ; Wesleyan, then on to Harvard (1959-63) ; Oxford, 1963-65 ; Discovering naturalism--a different way of being a philosopher? -- Part two. Other minds : UC Irvine, 1965-71 ; Moving back east ; A year at Harvard, meeting Jerry Fodor ; Academic politics at Tufts ; Where am I? ; Meanwhile, back at the farm ; Finding Xanthippe, leaving the farm ; Honorary family members, Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- Part three. My odyssey : Bristol and All Souls, 1978-79 ; CASBS, 1979-80, and meeting Douglas Hofstadter ; Rubik's cube, Prague, and Dahlem ; "Are rabbits birds?" and other memorable phone calls ; Ruth Millikan, who broke through the unsound barrier ; Big George and the curricular software studio ; The Locke lectures and the Vervet monkeys in Amboseli ; The Center for Cognitive Studies, adventures with Nicholas Humphrey ; Italian connections and their aftermaths ; Consciousness Explained ; The Turing test as more than a thought experiment ; Adventures with robots: the whole iguana, cog, and tati ; Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky ; Breaking the Spell ; Finding the funny bone with Jonathan Miller and Matthew Hurley ; A troika of Russian adventures ; TED ; Why, oh why, do I love... ; One more Eden: the Santa Fe Institute -- Part four. Academic battles : The history of philosophy, Richard Rorty ; Academic bullies and iconoclasts ; Reverse engineering one's thinking tools ; What if I'm wrong? |
| Subject |
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
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Cognitive science.
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Thought and thinking.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
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Philosophers -- Biography.
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PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.
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PHILOSOPHY / Nature.
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SCIENCE / Cognitive Science.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.
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Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement) (OCoLC)fst01815523
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Cognitive science. (OCoLC)fst00866547
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Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
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Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
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Thought and thinking. (OCoLC)fst01150249
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
I have been thinking |
| ISBN |
9780393868050 (hardcover) |
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0393868052 (hardcover) |
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