Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment

These essays, which grew out of a conference attended by Dennett, consider evolution, intentionality, consciousness, ontology, and ethics and free will.

About the author

Richard A. Falkenrath is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and, before that, as a Research Fellow. He is the author and co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes. Falkenrath has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Society of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, with degrees in economics and international relations. He is currently serving as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Policy and Plans, Office of Homeland Security.

Summary

These essays, which grew out of a conference attended by Dennett, consider evolution, intentionality, consciousness, ontology, and ethics and free will.

Product details

• Authors: Don Ross
• Assisted by: Andrew Brook (Editor), Andrew (Carleton University) Brook (Editor), Don Ross (Editor), Don (Research Fellow Ross (Editor), David Thompson (Editor), David (Memorial University) Thompson (Editor), David L. Thompson (Editor), David L. (Memorial University) Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780262182003
• ISBN: 978-0-262-18200-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 662 g
• Series: A Bradford Book; Bradford Books; Dennett's Philosophy; The MIT Press; A Bradford Book; Bradford Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works