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1	Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why people believe in God and how religion shapes lives and futures by taking a look at history, philosophy, and psychology. see all copies from £6.96! new only from £7.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Freedom Evolves more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist FREEDOM EVOLVES charts the compatibility that can exist between free will and determinism. Dennett, author of CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED and DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA, continues his philosophical inquiry into the workings of the mind and how it negotiates the realms of choice and scientific necessity. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist This work assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. The book aims to show that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life. see all copies from £6.78! new only from £7.43!
4	Consciousness Explained more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but ... see all copies from £1.74! new only from £6.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Content and Consciousness more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist Dennett's classic introduction to the philosophy of mind. see all copies from £7.48! new only from £20.14! \| first editions
6	Kinds of Minds more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist A collection of philosophical lectures given at University College, Dublin and Canterbury University, New Zealand. Dennett discusses the epistemological and ontological relationship between intentionality, language, and thought. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £252.11! \| first editions
7	Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties' they get enmeshed in - imaginary agents, bogeymen, and dire prospects that seem to threaten our freedom. see all copies from £7.51! new only from £10.53! \| first editions
8	Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist A collection of 17 essays exploring the central issues of the philosophy of the mind, and human interaction with psychology and evolutionary biology. This book questions the relationship between psychology and morality as well as exploring the concept of human intentionality. It argues that intentional attributes such as desires, goals, beliefs ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £12.45! \| first editions
9	Kinds of minds : towards an understanding of consciousness more books like this by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing. What we can know about is something else. But ... see all copies from £3.06! new only from £50.22! \| first editions
10	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist In this title, the author explains the scientific theory of natural selection in vivid terms, and shows how it extends far beyond biology. In addition, he outlines current debates on the subject and challenges the views of many famous scientists, including Stephen Jay Gould and Roger Penrose. see all copies from £6.93! new only from £26.79! \| first editions
11 view cover	Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist Can machines think? Do animals have beliefs? These questions and many others are answered in this sequel to "Brainstorms". Dennett deals with philosophy of mind, Artificial Intelligence/Life, Ethology and Animal Psychology and concludes with a personal overview of his thoughts on the future. see all copies from £7.48! new only from £17.90! \| first editions
12 view cover	Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist 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. With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in ... see all copies from £8.10! new only from £8.10! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Intentional Stance more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, Daniel Dennett asserts in this first full scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years. see all copies from £16.04! new only from £19.87! \| first editions
14 view cover	Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness more books like this by Daniel C Dennett, Danile C Dennett add to wishlist Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone elses mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.63! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy-Making more books like this by Robert M French, Daniel C Dennett (Foreword by) add to wishlist While it is fashionable today to dismiss the "bad old days" of artificial intelligence and rave about emergent self-organizing systems, Robert French has created a model of human analogy-making that attempts to bridge the gap between classical top-down AI and more recent bottom-up approaches. The research described in this book is based on the ... see all copies from £9.69! new only from £21.19! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain more books like this by Zoltan Torey, Daniel C Dennett (Foreword by) add to wishlist In "The Crucible of Consciousness", Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness ... see all copies from £19.64! new only from £19.64!
17	The Tanner Lectures on Human Values more books like this by Sterling M McMurrin add to wishlist see all copies from £5.74! first editions
18	Contenido Mental y Conciencia by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist see all copies from £35.97! new only from £35.97!
19	Darwin's dangerous idea : evolutions and the meanings of life more books like this by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist The author examines the history of debate about Darwin's theory of evolution, focussing on particular dramas in the debate up to the present day, in an attempt to explain why the theory has caused such heated dissention among scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. He compares the various strains of doctrine competing for our allegiance, as ... see all copies from £12.24!
20	La Conciencia Explicada more books like this by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist Detallada investigacion sobre la conciencia humana, el presente libro, uno de los mas originales ensayos de los ultimos tiempos, refuta la teoria tradicional de la conciencia basada en el sentido comun y presenta un nuevo modelo fundamentado en una ingente cantidad de datos, tomados a su vez de campos tan diversos como la neurociencia, la ... see all copies from £55.97!
21 view cover	La Evolucion de La Libertad more books like this by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist see all copies from £36.48!
22	La Actitud Intencional by Daniel C. Dennett add to wishlist see all copies from £38.11! new only from £38.11!
23	Einsicht Ins Ich: Fantasien Und Reflexionen Über Selbst Und Seele by Daniel; R. C., Douglas add to wishlist see all copies from £20.79! new only from £37.16!
24	Den Bann Brechen. Religion Als Natürliches Phänomen by Daniel C. add to wishlist see all copies from £29.19! new only from £32.73!
25	SüßE Träume by Daniel C.; Reuter Dennett, Gerson add to wishlist see all copies from £29.15! new only from £29.15!

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