I've Been Thinking

By Daniel C. Dennett,

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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…

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1 author picked I've Been Thinking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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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