Brainstorms

Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

Daniel C. Dennett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

1981
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-54037-7 (ISBN)

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This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions.

This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.1981
Reihe/Serie	The MIT Press
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-262-54037-1 / 0262540371
ISBN-13	978-0-262-54037-7 / 9780262540377
Zustand	Neuware