In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind.
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I have certainly been greatly stimulated by reading the book, and I recommend it to all others who have an interest in the problems of mind and body and of physicalism and its alternatives.
–J. C. C. Smart, Mind
–J. C. C. Smart, Mind
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Daniel C. Dennett (b. 1942) is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies. The author of numerous books on the human mind and consciousness, he is also a critic of religion and a public defender of Darwin and evolution.
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THOSE who are convinced of the futility of philosophy are fond of pointing to its history and claiming that there is no progress to be discerned there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
afferent analysis, mental entity terms, efferent state, mental language sentences, perceiving machine, centralist theory, awareness line, extensional theory, intelligent storage, content ascription, efferent side, speech centre, verbal stimulation, intentional terms, efferent activity, introspective access, introspective reports, inferential knowledge, deprivation experiments, pain behaviour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THOSE who are convinced of the futility of philosophy are fond of pointing to its history and claiming that there is no progress to be discerned there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
afferent analysis, mental entity terms, efferent state, mental language sentences, perceiving machine, centralist theory, awareness line, extensional theory, intelligent storage, content ascription, efferent side, speech centre, verbal stimulation, intentional terms, efferent activity, introspective access, introspective reports, inferential knowledge, deprivation experiments, pain behaviour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Scientific American, The Concept of Mind New!
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- The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle on page 6, page 99, and page 100
- The Explanation of Behaviour by Charles Taylor on page 23, and page 34
- Minds and Machines (Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy) by Alan Ross Anderson on page 127, and page 155
- Sensory Communication by Walter A. Rosenblith on page 76
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 136
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- Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings by Jose Bermudez on 5 pages
- Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought by Horst Hendriks-Jansen on 5 pages
- Daniel Dennett (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) by Andrew Brook on 5 pages
- Rereading Merleau-Ponty by Lawrence Hass on 4 pages
- Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (Representation and Mind) by Daniel C. Dennett on 4 pages
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