Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

    Paperback

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (April 3, 2014)

    Language: English

    ISBN-10: 0241954622

    ISBN-13: 978-0241954621

    Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches

    Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Editorial Reviews

From Bookforum

Dennett declares that his aim in Intuition Pumps is to lay out devices by which we might think more clearly, or with more insight, about a host of thorny topics—which might be boiled down to those many areas in which we errantly or too hastily assume we have a solid sense of the right and wrong answers. The sheer number of these thought experiments, geared to reveal how thoroughly incorrect our assumptions might be, is daring itself. The most provocative comprise consciousness, free will, and our own sense of what we mean by meaning and intend by speaking of intentionality—in other words, the philosophical terrain Dennett has explored extensively in his prior books. —Eric Banks --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.