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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C. Dennett

W. W. Norton Company
2018
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How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don't just perceive and react, they create and comprehend.An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.
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I've Been Thinking

I've Been Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett

W. W. Norton Company
2023
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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.Dennett's relentless curiosity has taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to "Cognitive Cruises" on sailboats and the fields and orchards of Maine, and to laboratories and think tanks around the world. Along the way, I've Been Thinking provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--and reveals both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped Dennett's theories.Key to this journey are Dennett's interlocutors--Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Willard Van Orman Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Gerald Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Fodor, Rodney Brooks, and more--whose ideas, even when he disagreed with them, helped to form his convictions about the mind and consciousness. Studded with photographs and told with characteristic warmth, I've Been Thinking also instills the value of life beyond the university, one enriched by sculpture, music, farming, and deep connection to family.Dennett compels us to consider: What do I really think? And what if I'm wrong? This memoir by one of the greatest minds of our time will speak to anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.
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Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness

Daniel C. Dennett

Routledge
1986
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First published in 2002. In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind. His work over the last twenty years and more, culminating in his major study, Consciousness Explained, has increased rather than diminished the power of his first book. This edition also includes the 1986 preface which places the book in the context of recent work in the area.
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Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness

Daniel C. Dennett

Routledge
2010
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Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind.
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Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness

Daniel C. Dennett

Routledge
2016
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First published in 2002. In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind. His work over the last twenty years and more, culminating in his major study, Consciousness Explained, has increased rather than diminished the power of his first book. This edition also includes the 1986 preface which places the book in the context of recent work in the area.
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Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness

Daniel C. Dennett

Routledge
2015
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Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind.
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I've Been Thinking

I've Been Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett

W. W. Norton Company
2025
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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.Dennett's relentless curiosity has taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to "Cognitive Cruises" on sailboats and the fields and orchards of Maine, and to laboratories and think tanks around the world. Along the way, I've Been Thinking provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--and reveals both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped Dennett's theories.Key to this journey are Dennett's interlocutors--Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Willard Van Orman Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Gerald Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Fodor, Rodney Brooks, and more--whose ideas, even when he disagreed with them, helped to form his convictions about the mind and consciousness. Studded with photographs and told with characteristic warmth, I've Been Thinking also instills the value of life beyond the university, one enriched by sculpture, music, farming, and deep connection to family.Dennett compels us to consider: What do I really think? And what if I'm wrong? This memoir by one of the greatest minds of our time will speak to anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.
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Från bakterier till Bach och tillbaka: Medvetandets evolution

Från bakterier till Bach och tillbaka: Medvetandets evolution

Daniel C. Dennett

Fri Tanke Förlag
2017
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Hur blev vi medvetna varelser? Denna fråga har gäckat psykologer, fysiker, poeter och filosofer i århundraden. Hur har människans hjärna utvecklat dess unika förmåga till att skapa, drömma och förklara? Darwins lärjungar har länge försökt förklara medvetandets, språkets och kulturens uppkomst genom naturligt urval i teorier som låter lovande men ofta är kontroversiella och förvirrande. Vår förståelse av hjärnans anatomi och funktion har aldrig varit bättre än nu, ändå förblir frågan om hur våra själar uppstår en obesvarad gåta. I Från bakterier till Bach, bygger Daniel Dennett på idéer från datavetenskapen och evolutionsbiologi för att visa hur en reflekterande hjärna kan ha uppstått genom naturligt urval. Dennett förklarar att en viktig förändring skedde när människor utvecklade förmågan att dela memer, eller sätt att göra saker som inte baseras på genetisk instinkt. Språket, laddat med memer, gav turbofart åt detta samspel. Konkurrens mellan memer en typ av naturligt urval resulterade i tankeverktyg som blev så effektiva att de tillät oss att utforma våra egna memer. Resultatet blev en hjärna som inte bara kan uppfatta och kontrollera, utan också skapa och förstå. Den här boken sätter agendan för en ny generation filosofer, forskare and tänkare. Boken kommer att underhålla och inspirera all de som vill veta mer om medvetandets existens och natur.
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Lumous murtuu

Lumous murtuu

Daniel C. Dennett

Terra Cognita
2007
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Monille, kenties useimmille, uskonto on asioista tärkein. Se lohduttaa heitä kärsimyksessä, on olennainen osa heidän avioliittoaan ja lastensa kasvatusta ja vie yhteistyöhön, jonka tulokset ovat sekä ihmeellisiä että hirveitä.Uskonto on niin vahva voima maailmassamme, että sitä on yritettävä ymmärtää kaikessa monimutkaisuudessaan, mutta useimmat uskontojen kannattajat vastustavat jyrkästi jokaista, joka haluaa tutkia heidän käytäntöjään ja uskomuksiaan luonnontieteen menetelmin, parhailla käytössämme olevilla välineillä.Tässä teoksessa maineikas amerikkalainen filosofi Daniel C. Dennett pyrkii selvittämään uskontojen perheen hämmästyttävän ilmiömaailman. Miksi ja miten niillä on uskolliset kannattajansa? Mistä niiden voima nousee? Miksi ne muokkaavat niin monien elämää niin vahvasti?Mistä syntyy omistautuminen Jumalalle? Mikä oli psykologinen ja kulttuurinen maaperä, jossa uskonto syntyi? Onko se addiktio vai aito tarve, joka tulisi säilyttää hintaan mihin hyvänsä? Onko se sokean evolutiivisen vaiston tuote vai rationaalisen valinnan tulos? Onko Jumalaan uskovilla hyvä syy uskoonsa? Ovatko ihmiset oikeassa sanoessaan, että uskonto on paras tapa elää hyvä elämä? Ennen kaikkea onko uskonto moraalin perusteiden välttämätön edellytys?Tässä haastavassa teoksessa Daniel C. Dennett väittää, että uskonnon perimmäisiä kysymyksiä ympäröivästä salamyhkäisyydestä on luovuttava, jotta uskonto ymmärrettäisiin nykyistä paremmin ja jotta näihin kysymyksiin saataisiin rationaalinen vastaus.Uskonto on aivan liian tärkeä asia luonnontieteellisen tarkastelun ulkopuolelle jätettäväksi.
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Science and Religion

Science and Religion

Daniel C. Dennett; Alvin Plantinga

Oxford University Press Inc
2011
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One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?, renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga expand upon the arguments that they presented in an exciting live debate held at the 2009 American Philosophical Association Central Division conference. An enlightening discussion that will motivate students to think critically, Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? opens with Plantinga's assertion that Christianity is compatible with evolutionary theory because Christians believe that God created the living world, and it is entirely possible that God did so by using a process of evolution. Dennett vigorously rejects this argument, provoking a reply from Plantinga, another response from Dennett, and final statements from both sides. As philosophers, the authors possess expert skills in critical analysis; their arguments provide a model of dialogue between those who strongly disagree. Ideal for courses in philosophy of religion, science and religion, and philosophy of science, Science and Religion is also captivating reading for general readers.
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Just Deserts

Just Deserts

Daniel C. Dennett; Gregg D. Caruso

Polity Press
2021
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The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts brings together two philosophers – Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso – to debate their respective views on free will, moral responsibility, and legal punishment. In three extended conversations, Dennett and Caruso present their arguments for and against the existence of free will and debate their implications. Dennett argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism – for him, self-control is key; we are not responsible for becoming responsible, but are responsible for staying responsible, for keeping would-be puppeteers at bay. Caruso takes the opposite view, arguing that who we are and what we do is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control, and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in the sense that would make us truly deserving of blame and praise, punishment and reward. Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.
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Just Deserts

Just Deserts

Daniel C. Dennett; Gregg D. Caruso

Polity Press
2021
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The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts brings together two philosophers – Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso – to debate their respective views on free will, moral responsibility, and legal punishment. In three extended conversations, Dennett and Caruso present their arguments for and against the existence of free will and debate their implications. Dennett argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism – for him, self-control is key; we are not responsible for becoming responsible, but are responsible for staying responsible, for keeping would-be puppeteers at bay. Caruso takes the opposite view, arguing that who we are and what we do is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control, and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in the sense that would make us truly deserving of blame and praise, punishment and reward. Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.
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Caught in the Pulpit

Caught in the Pulpit

Daniel C. Dennett; Linda LaScola; Richard Dawkins

Pitchstone Publishing
2015
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What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age—the phenomenon of clergy who no longer believe what they publicly preach. In confidential interviews, clergy from across the ministerial spectrum—from liberal to literal—reveal how their lives of religious service and study have led them to a truth inimical to their professed beliefs and profession. Although their personal stories are as varied as the denominations they once represented, or continue to represent—whether Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Mormon, Pentecostal, or any of numerous others—they give voice not only to their own struggles but also to those who similarly suffer in tender and lonely silence. As this study poignantly and vividly reveals, their common journey has far-reaching implications not only for their families, their congregations, and their communities—but also for the very future of religion.
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Elbow Room

Elbow Room

Dennett Daniel C.

Bradford Books
2015
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A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism.In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting-those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility-are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties" in which they are often enmeshed-imaginary agents and bogeymen, including the Peremptory Puppeteer, the Nefarious Neurosurgeon, and the Cosmic Child Whose Dolls We Are. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he concludes that we can have free will and science too. He explores reason, control and self-control, the meaning of "can" and "could have done otherwise," responsibility and punishment, and why we would want free will in the first place. A fresh reading of Dennett's book shows how much it can still contribute to current discussions of free will. This edition includes as its afterword Dennett's 2012 Erasmus Prize essay.
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Follow the Pipelines

Follow the Pipelines

Charlotte Dennett; Daniel C. Dennett III

CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING CO
2022
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‘Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs “experts” and officials should have this work as required reading.’—Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle Part personal pilgrimage, part deft critique, Dennett’s insightful reportage examines what happens to international relations when oil wealth hangs in the balance, and she shines a glaring light on what so many have actually been dying for. In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s sole master spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. A plane carrying him to Ethiopia went down, killing everyone onboard. Today, Dennett is recognised by the CIA as a ‘Fallen Star’ and an important figure in US intelligence history. Yet the true cause of his death remains clouded in secrecy. In Follow the Pipelines, investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s postwar counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies – the British, French and Russians – in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through stories and maps, she reveals how feverish competition among superpower intelligence networks, military and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks, misguided foreign policy and targeted killings that continue to this day. Follow the Pipelines also brings new questions to the fore: To what lengths has the United States negotiated with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS to secure Big Oil’s holdings in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen?Was the Pentagon’s goal of defeating ISIS a fraudulent pretext for America’s occupation of Syrian eastern provinces and a land grab for oil?Did the infamous double agent Kim Philby, who worked for the British while secretly spying for the Russians, have anything to do with Dennett’s death?Why have the US and China made North Africa the next major battleground in the Great Game for Oil? Charlotte Dennett delivers an irrefutable indictment of these devastating external forces and demonstrates how decades of brutal violence have shaped the Middle East and birthed an era of endless conflict – all for oil.
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The Crash of Flight 3804

The Crash of Flight 3804

Charlotte Dennett; Daniel C. Dennett III

Chelsea Green Publishing Co
2020
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While unravelling the mystery of her father - a Master Spy’s - death, an investigative journalist reveals the truth behind an era of endless wars in the Middle East by following the pipelines. In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s sole Master Spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. A plane carrying him to Ethiopia went down, killing everyone on board. In The Crash of Flight 3804 investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s postwar counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, French, and Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through stories and maps, she reveals how feverish competition among superpower intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fuelled indiscriminate attacks and targeted killings that continue to this day. Part personal pilgrimage, part deft critique, Dennett’s insightful reportage examines what happens to international relations when oil wealth hangs in the balance and shines a glaring light on what so many have actually been dying for. The Crash of Flight 3804 provides important context for understanding the Middle East region, while bringing new questions to light, including: Did the infamous British double agent Kim Philby have anything to do with Daniel Dennett's death? As the US continues to be on the brink of war with Iran, what oil infrastructure and vulnerable choke points are key political calculation? What new conflicts lie ahead with the signing of the EastMed undersea gas pipeline agreement? To what lengths has the US negotiated with the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS to secure Big Oil's holdings in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen?
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