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- Author
- Daniel C. Dennett
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 379
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Harvester Press, Bradford Books
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780710803313
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“I wish to examine the concept of a system whose behavior can be-at least sometimes-explained and predicted by relying on ascriptions to the system of beliefs and desires (and hopes, fears, intentions, hunches, . . .).”
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett was a vocal atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, and a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of N
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