DENNETT, Daniel C.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
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First Edition of Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking; Inscribed by Daniel C. Dennett
First edition of this late-career summation by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, presenting seventy-seven thought experiments designed to help readers think more clearly about the mind, meaning, evolution, and free will. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John Rogers best wishes! Daniel Dennett." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking is the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's engaging guide to the mental tools he had used and refined over a lifetime of thinking about the mind, meaning, evolution, and free will. The title takes its name from a term Dennett himself coined, the intuition pump, for a thought experiment designed to provoke intuitive judgments about a problem, and the book assembles more than seventy such tools, from labels for common reasoning errors to his own famous thought experiments about consciousness and artificial intelligence. Daniel C. Dennett (1942 to 2024) was among the most influential philosophers of his generation, a professor at Tufts University and co-director of its Center for Cognitive Studies, and the author of Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Breaking the Spell. A noted advocate of science and secularism, he was often grouped with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens as one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New Atheism.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.
$1,250.00
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