Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Neuausgabe 1998
ISBN: 978-0-262-54090-2
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Representation and Mind series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dennett, Daniel C.

Block, Ned

Putnam, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Dennett, Daniel C.
Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of
Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainstorms:

Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing
Minds, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of
Consciousness, all published by the MIT Press, and other books.

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.