Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Name: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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ISBN: 9780393348781

ISBN-10: 0393348784

ISBN-13: 9780393348781

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Authors: Daniel C. Dennett

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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…

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Matthew M. Hurley is currently researching teleology and agency at the Center for Research onConcepts and Cognition at Indiana University.Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy atTufts University. He is the author of Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Scienceof Consciousness (MIT Press) and other books.