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Brainstorms : philosophical essays on mind and psychology / Daniel C. Dennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), author.
- Series:
- A Bradford book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognition.
- Philosophy.
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- LC copy is the gift of Glen Emil, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st MIT Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1978]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions.This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Cited in:
- Bradford, E. Edward Gorey, Bp89b
- Toledano, H. Goreyography, page 114
- ISBN:
- 0-262-04064-6
- 0-262-27150-8
- 0-585-31600-7
- OCLC:
- 933365414
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