| Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds Contributor(s): Dennett, Daniel C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262540908 ISBN-13: 9780262540902 Publisher: Bradford Book OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: "Brainchildren" is a new collection of wide-ranging essays from one of cognitive science's most distinguished figures. This book brings together Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Collected in a single volume, these compelling essays are now available to a wider audience. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Methodology - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| LCCN: 97009440 |
| Series: Representation and Mind |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.02" W x 8.96" (1.51 lbs) 430 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new collection of wide-ranging essays from one of cognitive science's most distingushed figures. Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on the philosphy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Highlights include Can Machines Think?, The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, Artificial Life as Philosophy, and Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why. Collected in a single volume, the essays are now available to a wider audience. |
Contributor Bio(s): Putnam, Hilary: - Hilary Putnam was Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.Dennett, Daniel C.: - Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.Block, Ned: - Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University and was Chair of the Philosophy Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He is a coeditor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (MIT Press, 1997). |