I've Been Thinking
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett."--Amazon.
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 : Bristaol and All Souls, 1978-79 ; CASBS, 1979-80, and meeting Dgoulas 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?
Subjects:
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Cognitive science.
Thought and thinking.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
Philosophers -- Biography.
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Cognitive science.
Thought and thinking.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
Philosophers -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780393868050
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Dennett, D. C. | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.