Why did I love this book?
I was lucky enough to be sent a pre-publication copy of the book by the publisher. I loved it. It is part autobiography, part intellectual history, by one of the great minds of the twentieth/twenty-first century.
It tells the story of Dennett’s life (so far) and of his own intellectual journey. Personally, his early work was instrumental in luring me away from the traditional sort of arm-chair philosophy I had been trained in. What I hadn’t realized is quite what a polymath he is: musician, sculptor, philosopher, as well as a cognitive scientist.
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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? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations.
Dennett's relentless curiosity has taken him from a childhood in Beirut and the classrooms of Harvard, Oxford, and Tufts, to "Cognitive Cruises" on sailboats and the fields and orchards of Maine, and…
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