I've been thinking
Dennett, Daniel C.
I've been thinking by Daniel C. Dennett. - Dublin : Allen Lane, ©2023 - xxv, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-407) and index.
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?
"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett" -- "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" --
9780241519271
2023290648
Dennett, D. C.
Dennett, D. C.
1900-2099
Cognitive science.
Thought and thinking.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--21st century.
Philosophers--Biography.
Sciences cognitives.
Pensée.
Philosophie--20e siècle.
Philosophie--21e siècle.
Philosophes--Biographies.
thinking.
PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.
PHILOSOPHY / Nature.
SCIENCE / Cognitive Science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.
Cognitive science
Philosophers
Philosophy, Modern
Thought and thinking
Philosophy.
Philosophers--Biography.
Psychology--Biography.
Thought and thinking.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
B945.D394 / A3 2023
109.22 / DEN-I
I've been thinking by Daniel C. Dennett. - Dublin : Allen Lane, ©2023 - xxv, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-407) and index.
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?
"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett" -- "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" --
9780241519271
2023290648
Dennett, D. C.
Dennett, D. C.
1900-2099
Cognitive science.
Thought and thinking.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--21st century.
Philosophers--Biography.
Sciences cognitives.
Pensée.
Philosophie--20e siècle.
Philosophie--21e siècle.
Philosophes--Biographies.
thinking.
PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.
PHILOSOPHY / Nature.
SCIENCE / Cognitive Science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.
Cognitive science
Philosophers
Philosophy, Modern
Thought and thinking
Philosophy.
Philosophers--Biography.
Psychology--Biography.
Thought and thinking.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
B945.D394 / A3 2023
109.22 / DEN-I