Daniel Clement Dennett
I´ve Been Thinking

2025 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warburton, Times Literary Supplement'One of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers' Nature'Who would have guessed that a philosoph…er's life could be so full of adventures?'Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers.Dennett's restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in Beirut to Harvard, and from Parisian jazz clubs to 'tillosophy' on his tractor in Maine. Along the way, he encounters and debates with a host of legendary thinkers, and reveals the breakthroughs and misjudgments that shaped his paradigm-shifting philosophies. Thinking, Dennett argues, is hard, and risky. In fact, all good philosophical thinking is inevitably accompanied by bafflement, frustration and self-doubt. It is only in getting it wrong that we, very occasionally, find a way to get it right.This memoir by one of the greatest philosophers of our time will speak to anyone who seeks a life of the mind with adventure and creativity. 'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warburton, Times Literary Supplement'One of today's most …readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers' Nature'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?'Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers.Dennett's restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in Beirut to Harvard, and from Parisian jazz clubs to 'tillosophy' on his tractor in Maine. Along the way, he encounters and debates with a host of legendary thinkers, and reveals the breakthroughs and misjudgments that shaped his paradigm-shifting philosophies. Thinking, Dennett argues, is hard, and risky. In fact, all good philosophical thinking is inevitably accompanied by bafflement, frustration and self-doubt. It is only in getting it wrong that we, very occasionally, find a way to get it right.This memoir by one of the greatest philosophers of our time will speak to anyone who seeks a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.

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Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	434
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0141997354
ISBN:	9780141997353
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	2. 5. 2025 10:10
Číslo položky:	1224965

O autorovi

Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett je americký filosof a kognitivní vědec, který se soustředí na filosofii mysli, filosofii vědy a filosofii biologie, převážně na témata týkající se evoluční biologie a kognitivní vědy. V současnosti je profesorem na Tuftsově univerzitě. Je ateista a sekularista a silný podporovatel hnutí Brights. Spolu s Richardem Dawkinsem, Christopherem Hitchensem a Samem Harrisem je považován za nejvýraznější postavu nového ateismu. Narodil se v Bostonu v Massachusetts a část svého dětství strávil v Libanonu, kde jeho otec během druhé světové války pracoval jako agent americké zpravodajské služby. Když mu bylo pět let, jeho otec zemřel v letecké havárii a s matkou se přestěhovali zpět do Bostonu. Strávil jeden rok na Wesleyánské univerzitě a pak přešel na Harvardovu univerzitu, kde studoval pod W. V. Quinem a v roce 1963 získal titul B.A. . V roce 1965 získal titul D.Phil. na Oxfordské univerzitě, kde byl studentem Gilberta Ryleho. Mezi lety 1965 a 1971 učil na Kalifornské univerzitě v Irvine, odkud se přesunul na Tufts University v Medfordu v Massachusetts, kde působí jako profesor do současnosti. Přednášel i na universitách v Harvardu, Pittsburghu, Oxfordu, École normale supérieure v Paříži, London School of Economics a American University of Beirut. V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Daniel Dennett na anglické Wikipedii.

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