Research Catalog

Title

I've been thinking / Daniel C. Dennett.

Author

Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)

Publication

• New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Description

xxv, 434 pages : black and white illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett."--Amazon.
• 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? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations.

Alternative Title

I have been thinking

Subject

• Dennett, D. C
• 1900-2099
• Cognitive science
• Thought and thinking
• Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
• Philosophy, Modern > 21st century
• Philosophers > Biography
• Philosophers
• Philosophy, Modern

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-407) and index.

Contents

Prologue. Lucky Dan -- Part one. Off to a fast start : Childhood ; Music: an important digression ; Wesleyan, then on to Harvard (1959-63) ; Oxford, 1963-65 ; Discovering naturalism--a different way of being a philosopher? -- Part two. Other minds : UC Irvine, 1965-71 ; Moving back east ; A year at Harvard, meeting Jerry Fodor ; Academic politics at Tufts ; Where am I? ; Meanwhile, back at the farm ; Finding Xanthippe, leaving the farm ; Honorary family members, Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- Part three. My odyssey : Bristol and All Souls, 1978-79 ; CASBS, 1979-80, and meeting Douglas Hofstadter ; Rubik's cube, Prague, and Dahlem ; "Are rabbits birds?" and other memorable phone calls ; Ruth Millikan, who broke through the unsound barrier ; Big George and the curricular software studio ; The Locke lectures and the Vervet monkeys in Amboseli ; The Center for Cognitive Studies, adventures with Nicholas Humphrey ; Italian connections and their aftermaths ; Consciousness Explained ; The Turing test as more than a thought experiment ; Adventures with robots: the whole iguana, cog, and tati ; Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky ; Breaking the Spell ; Finding the funny bone with Jonathan Miller and Matthew Hurley ; A troika of Russian adventures ; TED ; Why, oh why, do I love... ; One more Eden: the Santa Fe Institute -- Part four. Academic battles : The history of philosophy, Richard Rorty ; Academic bullies and iconoclasts ; Reverse engineering one's thinking tools ; What if I'm wrong?

Call Number

JFE 23-3395

ISBN

• 9780393868050
• 0393868052

OCLC

1362866338

Author

Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), author.

Title

I've been thinking / Daniel C. Dennett.

Publisher

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-407) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3395