DENNETT C. DANIEL

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Η θρησκεία έχει αναδείξει τα καλύτερα, αλλά και τα χειρότερα χαρακτηριστικά της ανθρώπινης φύσης, από τον αλτρουισμό και την αυτοθυσία ως τον φανατισμό και τη μισαλλοδοξία. Ωστόσο, μέχρι σήμερα, λίγα βιβλία προσπάθησαν να τη μελετήσουν από επιστημονική σκοπιά. Η Απομυθοποίηση αποτελεί μια τολμηρή και αναπόφευκτα προκλητική εξαίρεση. Με βάση δεδομένα από το χώρο της βιολογίας, της ιστορίας και της ψυχολογίας, ο Dennett ρωτά: Είναι η θρησκεία ένα προϊόν τυφλών εξελικτικών ενστίκτων ή αποτελεί προϊόν ορθολογικής επιλογής; Είναι πραγματικά ο κ...
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(P/B) CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett's future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesia...
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(P/B) CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author...
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(H/B) THE FOUR HORSEMEN
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights - about religion and atheism, science and sense - speaks with urgency to our present age. Questions they asked of each other included: 'Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the relig...
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(P/B) FREEDOM EVOLVES
Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? Here, Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will. But rather than freedom being an eternal, unchanging condition of our existence, in reality, he reveals, it has evolved: just like life on the planet and the air we breathe. Evolution is the key to resolvin...
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(P/B) DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION & THE MEANINGS OF LIFE
In Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of life without devaluing our most cherished beliefs. From the moment it first appeared, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has been controversial: misrepresented, abused, denied and fiercely debated. In this powerful defence of Darwin, Daniel C. Dennett explores every aspect of evolutionary thinking to show why it is so fundamental to our existence, and why it affirms - not ...
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(P/B) THE INTENTIONAL STANCE
How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, asserts Daniel Dennett in this first full-scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years. We adopt a stance, he argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people - or other entities - we are hoping to understand and predict. These principles of radical inter...
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(H/B) BREAKING THE SPELL

(P/B) CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS