Content and Consciousness (International Library of Philosophy) - Hardcover

Dennett, Daniel C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710065124 ISBN 13: 9780710065124

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1969

Synopsis

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. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind.

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Review

'One rarely encounters a difficult work of technical philosophy that is such a pleasure to read.’ – Thomas Nagel, Journal of Philosophy

About the Author

Daniel C. Dennett (b. 1942) is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies. The author of numerous books on the human mind and consciousness, he is also a critic of religion and a public defender of Darwin and evolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710065124
• ISBN 13: 9780710065124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224