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Elbow room :the varieties of free will worth wanting
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Dennett, D. C.

"A Bradford Book.""In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, 'saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.' In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting--those that underwrite mora…

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New edition.
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9780262332026
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1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
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Brainstorms :philosophical essays on mind and psychology
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Dennett, D. C.

When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs -- and into conversations with psychologists, linguists, computer scientists. This collection of seventeen essays by Dennett offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of c…

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40th Anniversary edition.
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9780262343725
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1 online resource
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Inside jokes :using humor to reverse-engineer the mind
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Dennett, D. C.Hurley, Matthew M.,Adams, Reginald B.

An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor. Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Da…

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9780262303552
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1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Brainstorms :philosophical essays on mind and psychology
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Dennett, D. C.

"A Bradford book."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 traditiona…

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1st MIT Press edition.
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9780262271509
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1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages)
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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
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Dennett, D. C.

"A Bradford book."In the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explained was published in 1991, scientific research on consciousness has been a hotly contested battleground of rival theories--"so rambunctious," Dennett observes, "that several people are writing books just about the tumult." With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theo…

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9780262271530
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1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) :illustrations.
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