Daniel C. Dennett, Author . Viking $25.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-670-03186-3
"Trading in a supernatural soul for a natural soul—is this a fair bargain?" Dennett, seeking to fend off "caricatures of Darwinian thinking" that plague his philosophical camp, argues in this incendiary, brilliant, even...
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author . Viking $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-03472-7
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea
and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a scientific, rational examination of religion that will lead us to...
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author Simon & Schuster $18 (592p) ISBN 978-0-684-82471-0
Dennett's philosophical argument in support of Darwinism was a National Book Award finalist. (June)
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author Little Brown and Company $27.95 (511p) ISBN 978-0-316-18065-8
Tufts University cognitive scientist Dennett claims to have developed a major new theory of consciousness, yet his view of the brain as a massive parallel processor is a familiar one. What is different in his counter-intuitive theory is the claim...
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (592p) ISBN 978-0-684-80290-9
Darwin's ``dangerous idea,'' as defined by orthodox neo-Darwinist Dennett (Consciousness Explained), is the belief that evolution, a mindless, mechanistic, purposeless process, gave rise to the single, branching tree of life and, further, that this...
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author Basic Books $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-465-07350-4
Dennett (Darwin's Dangerous Idea), director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, avers that language is the ""slingshot"" that has ""launched [humans] far beyond all other earthly species in the power to look ahead and reflect.""
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Daniel C. Dennett. Norton, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-393-08206-7
A grab-bag of metaphors and thought experiments, some more enlightening than others, structure this scattershot treatise on the philosophy of mind. Tufts philosophy professor Dennett (Consciousness Explained) rehashes favorite themes from previous...
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Daniel C. Dennett. Norton, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-393-24207-2
Dennett (Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking), co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, combines arguments from philosophy, biology, and informatics to explore questions associated with the origin of...
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Daniel C. Dennett, Author, Dennett, Author MIT Press (MA) $30 (430p) ISBN 978-0-262-54090-2
The author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained here collects essays from conference volumes and ""specialized journals"" that have appeared from 1984 to 1996, with the idea of making them available ""for students and other readers.
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