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I've Been Thinking Hardcover â October 3, 2023
How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a
torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is
an understatement. âRichard 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? Dennettâs answers have
profoundly shaped our age of philosophical
thought. In Iâve Been Thinking, he reflects on
his amazing career and lifelong scientific
fascinations.Dennettâs relentless curiosity has
taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the
classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to
âœCognitive Cruisesâ? on sailboats and
the fields and orchards of Maine, and to
laboratories and think tanks around the world.
Along the way, Iâve Been Thinking provides a
master class in the dominant themes of
twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive
scienceâincluding language, evolution, logic,
religion, and AIâand reveals both the mistakes
and breakthroughs that shaped Dennettâs
theories.Key to this journey are Dennettâs
interlocutorsâDouglas Hofstadter, Marvin
Minsky, Willard Van Orman Quine, Gilbert Ryle,
Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Gerald
Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Jerry Fodor, Rodney
Brooks, and moreâwhose ideas, even when he
disagreed with them, helped to form his
convictions about the mind and consciousness.
Studded with photographs and told
with characteristic warmth, Iâve Been Thinking
also instills the value of life beyond the
university, one enriched by sculpture, music,
farming, and deep connection to family.Dennett
compels us to consider What do I really think?
And what if Iâm wrong? This memoir by one of
the greatest minds of our time will speak to
anyone who seeks to balance a life of the mind
with adventure and creativity. 17 photographs
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