Kinds Of Minds (SCIENCE MASTERS)

Kinds Of Minds (SCIENCE MASTERS)

by Daniel C . Dennett (Author)

Synopsis

What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing. What we can know about is something else. But we know enough about minds, Dennett argues, to know that one of the things that makes them different from everything else in the universe is the way we know about them. 'Provoking but clarifying ...Daniel Dennett's book is a memorable and stimulating work of popular scientific explanation. It thoroughly readjusts the reader's mental image of what the mind is and how it got there but leaves one surprised that the explanation can be ultimately so simple when the implications are so vast' Anthony Smith, Observer

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: 2
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Sep 1997

ISBN 10: 0753800438
ISBN 13: 9780753800430
Book Overview: Part of the Science Masters series - bringing together some of the world's finest scientists to explore and explain the key ideas in contemporary science Daniel Dennett is a brilliant philosopher-scientist By the author of the bestselling Darwin's Dangerous Idea, reviewed by Richard Dawkins as 'A surpassingly brilliant book' 'Beautifully written ... Kinds of Minds ... takes the reader on an entertaining journey through the world of animals and robots ... provocative and entertaining' Financial Times

Author Bio
Daniel C. Dennett is Director of the Center of Cognitive Studies, and Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at Tufts University, Massachusetts.