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Product Description: An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.
By Daniel C. Dennett (foreword by)
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9780262512848 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, June 30, 2009), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.

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By Daniel C. Dennett (foreword by)
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9780262255189 | Ebrary, May 1, 2009, cover price $36.00

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A Tufts University professor explores the nature of faith and how religion shapes everyday life and the future, addressing controversial issues about the relevance and rational qualities of faith while tracing the history of organized religion from its roots in folk beliefs to its key role in modern issues. By the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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9780670034727 | Viking Pr, February 2, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explores the nature of faith and how religion shapes everyday life, addressing controversial issues about the relevance of faith, while tracing the history of organized religion from its roots in folk beliefs to its key role in modern issues.

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9780143038337 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 6, 2007), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A Tufts University professor explores the nature of faith and how religion shapes everyday life and the future, addressing controversial issues about the relevance and rational qualities of faith while tracing the history of organized religion from its roots in folk beliefs to its key role in modern issues.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780262042253 | Mit Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780262541916 | Mit Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Hace cuatro mil años, en nuestro planeta, no había libertad porque no había vida. ¿Qué tipos de libertad han evolucionado desde el origen de la vida? ¿Puede haber libertad en un mundo determinista? Si somos libres, ¿somos también responsables por el hecho de serlo o simplemente afortunados? En La evolución de la libertad, Daniel C...read more
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9788449315381, titled "La evolucion de la libertad / The Evolution of Freedom" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, March 1, 2004, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Hace cuatro mil años, en nuestro planeta, no había libertad porque no había vida.

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The author of Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea explains how ancient problems involving moral and political freedoms can be resolved by evolution and biology. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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9780670031863 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explains how ancient problems involving moral and political freedoms can be resolved by evolution and biology.

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9780142003848 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2004), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The author of Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea explains how ancient problems involving moral and political freedoms can be resolved by evolution and biology.

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Product Description: Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science...read more
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9780415567862 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 21, 2010), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body.
9780415104319 | Reprint edition (Routledge, March 1, 1986), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind.

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9780203005729 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 4, 2002), cover price $39.95

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Product Description: With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780465030910 | Basic Books, January 16, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines.

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Product Description: Daniel C. Dennett, one of the pioneers who laid the foundations of the field of cognitive science, continues to inform, challenge, and stimulate. This special boxed set includes all of Dennett's MIT Press/Bradford Books volumes. The set also includes a pamphlet containing a cross-referenced index...read more
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9780262540919 | Bradford Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Daniel C.

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Product Description: Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social. This book collects together the essays of Daniel Dennett on the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive ethology that appeared in journals from 1984 to 1996. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262041669 | Bradford Books, January 30, 1998, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social.

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262540902 | Bradford Books, February 6, 1998, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author discusses theories about how our minds and animals' minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate
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9780465073511 | Basic Books, June 11, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author discusses theories about how our minds and animals' minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate

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9781879557420 | Audio Scholar, July 1, 1996, cover price $17.95

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Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea discusses theories about how our minds and other animal's minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate.
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9780465073504 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Using the disciplines of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, the author discusses theories about how our minds and animals' minds work while developing his own evolutionary perspective on how our minds operate

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Offers a wider perspective on Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection, explaining how it extends beyond biology, analyzing current controversies over the origins of life and inherent biases, and challenging popular philosophies (view table of contents)
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9780684824710 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, June 12, 1996), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Offers a wider perspective on Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection, explaining how it extends beyond biology, analyzing current controversies over the origins of life and inherent biases, and challenging popular philosophies

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Offers a wider perspective on Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection, explaining how it extends beyond biology, analyzing current controversies over the origins of life and inherent biases, and challenging popular philosophies. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
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9780684802909 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Offers a wider perspective on Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection, explaining how it extends beyond biology, analyzing current controversies over the origins of life and inherent biases, and challenging popular philosopohies

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Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings
By Daniel C. Dennett and Paul Weiner (illustrator)
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9780316180658 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings

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9780316180665 | Back Bay Books, October 20, 1992, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Advances a new theory of consciousness based on insights gleaned from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence, and clears away obsolete myths about the process of thinking in conscious beings

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Product Description: How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, asserts Daniel Dennett in this first full-scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262040938 | Bradford Books, November 1, 1987, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions?

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9780262540537 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, March 6, 1989), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions?

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Product Description: Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a  cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time. From verbalizing  chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving  machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like  fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike  fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits  glowing read and gold, The Mind's I   opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the  windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of  exciting possibilities...read more
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9780553345841 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 1, 1985), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a  cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time.

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Essays discuss reason, self-control, self-definition, time, cause and effect, accidents, and responsibility, and explain why people want free will (view table of contents)
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9780262540421 | Bradford Books, November 21, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss reason, self-control, self-definition, time, cause and effect, accidents, and responsibility, and explain why people want free will

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262540377 | Bradford Books, July 13, 1981, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will.

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