Daniel Dennett

by Edited by Andrew Brook , Don Ross

• ISBN13: 9780521803946
• ISBN10: 0521803942
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus will offer a series of introductory volumes to many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Each volume will consist of newly commissioned essays that will cover all the major contributions of a preeminent philosopher in a systematic and accessible manner. Author of such groundbreaking and influential books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett has reached a huge general and professional audience that extends way beyond the confines of academic philosophy. He has made significant contributions to the study of consciousness, the development of the child's mind, cognitive ethnology, explanation in the social sciences, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary theory. This volume is the only truly introductory collection that traces these connections, explores the implications of Dennett's work, and furnishes the non-specialist with a fully-rounded account of why Dennett is such an important voice on the philosophical scene.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction
Dennett's Position in the Intellectual World	3	(38)
Andrew Brook
Don Ross
CONSCIOUSNESS
The Appearance of Things	41	(23)
Andrew Brook
Catching Consciousness in a Recurrent Net	64	(19)
Paul M. Churchland
USES OF DENNETT'S METHOD
The Intentional Stance: Developmental and Neurocognitive Perspectives	83	(34)
Richard Griffin
Simon Baron-Cohen
Dennett's Contribution to Research on the Animal Mind	117	(23)
Robert M. Seyfarth
Dorothy L. Cheney
Dennettian Behavioural Explanations and the Roles of the Social Sciences	140	(47)
Don Ross
TWO CONCERNS
That Special Something: Dennett on the Making of Minds and Selves	187	(19)
Andy Clark
A Question of Content	206	(43)
Kathleen Akins
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
Dennett and Artificial Intelligence: On the Same Side, and If So, Of What?	249	(22)
Yorick Wilks
Dennett and the Darwin Wars	271	(23)
Don Ross
Bibliography	294	(3)
Index	297