Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions.
This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.
- Author
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780262540377
- Genres
- philosophy, psychology, science, essays, neuroscience, atheism, brain, theory
- Release date
- 1981
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