Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745621173)

Daniel Dennett is one of the most influential thinkers at the interface between philosophy and science. This book is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett's ideas on the nature of thought, consciousness, free will, and the significance of Darwinism.

• A highly original introduction to contemporary thinking about the relationship between mind and science.
  
• This is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett's ideas on the nature of thought, consciousness, free will, and the significance of Darwinism.
  
• Examines Dennett's unique response to the question of when and how science should affect the conception that we have of ourselves.
  
• Casts new light on specific controversies: Could robots ever think, feel, and enjoy freedom? Does Dennett really explain consciousness? Are mental states real or merely 'useful fictions'? Do we have free will? Is the self a 'centre of narrative gravity'?

Author: Matthew Elton
ISBN-10: 0745621171
ISBN-13: 9780745621173
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2003
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.18h x 5.98w x 0.91d