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Klappentext The only truly introductory collection that explores the implications of Dennett's diverse body of work. Zusammenfassung Contemporary Philosophy in Focus will offer a series of introductory volumes of newly commissioned essays on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. This volume on Daniel C. Dennett is the only truly introductory collection that explores the implications of his diverse body of work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Dennett's place in the intellectual world Andrew Brook and Don Ross; Part II. Consciousness: 2. The appearance of things Andrew Brook; 3. Catching consciousness in a recurrent net Paul M. Churchland; Part III. Uses of Dennett's Method: 4. The intentional stance: developmental and neurocognitive perspectives Richard Griffin and Simon Baron-Cohen; 5. Dennett's contribution to research on the animal mind Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney; 6. Dennettian behavioral explanations and the roles of the social sciences Don Ross; Part IV. Two Concerns: 7. That special something: Dennett on the making of minds and selves Andy Clark; 8. A question of content Kathleen Akins; Part V. Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Theory: 9. Dennett and artificial intelligence: on the same side, and if so, so what? Yorick Wilks; 10. Dennett and the Darwin wars Don Ross.
