Ive Been Thinking - Daniel C. Dennett
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
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How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement. Richard Dawkins, A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett. 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? Dennetts answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In Ive Been Thinking , he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations. Dennetts 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, Ive Been Thinking provides a master
