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by Daniel C. Dennett

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"Brainchildren" is a new collection of wide-ranging essays from one of cognitive science's most distinguished figures. This book brings together Dennett's essays on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Collected in a single volume, these compelling essays are now available to a wider audience.

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A new collection of wide-ranging essays from one of cognitive science's most distingushed figures.

Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on the philosphy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Highlights include "Can Machines Think?," "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies," "Artificial Life as Philosophy," and "Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why." Collected in a single volume, the essays are now available to a wider audience.

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  • Title Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
  • Author Daniel C. Dennett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 430
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bradford Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998-02-17
  • ISBN 9780262540902 / 0262540908
  • Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.02 x 0.97 in (22.76 x 15.29 x 2.46 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Artificial intelligence, Philosophy of mind
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97009440
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.2

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  • Library Journal, 03/15/1998, Page 89
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/09/1998, Page 88

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Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.

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