Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking - Softcover

Dennett, Daniel C.

 
9780393348781: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393348784 ISBN 13: 9780393348781
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders" meant to guide you through some of life's most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering readers insight into how and why each tool was built.

Alongside well-known favorites like Occam's Razor and reductio ad absurdum lie thrilling descriptions of Dennett's own creations: Trapped in the Robot Control Room, Beware of the Prime Mammal, and The Wandering Two-Bitser. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett's tools embrace in equal measure light-heartedness and accessibility as they welcome uninitiated and seasoned readers alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to "think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions."

A sweeping work of intellectual seriousness that's also studded with impish delights, Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers-in all walks of life-delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel C. Dennett (1942-2024) was University Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and the author of numerous books, including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393348784
ISBN 13 
9780393348781
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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