Freedom Evolves - by Daniel C Dennett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As in his previous books, Dennett weaves a richly detailed narrative enlivened by analogies as entertaining as they are challenging. Here is the story of how mankind came to be different from all other creatures, how early ancestors mindlessly created human culture, and then, how culture gave humans their minds, their visions, moral problems--in a nutshell, their freedom.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original<br>arguments--drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy--that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. <b>In Freedom Evolves</b>, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Dennett has taken on really big issues, made them clear, dealt with them seriously and given us much on which to reflect. . . . Crisp and critically insightful." --<b>The Washington Post Book World</b><p>"One of the most original thinkers of our time." --<b>Science</b></p><p>Dennett stands as the sharpest, cleverest, most stylish prober of how issues of human consciousness interconnect today with evolutionary theory. --<b>The Philadelphia Inquirer</b></p><p>A serious book with a brilliant message. --<b>Matt Ridley</b>, <b>The Sunday Telegraph</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Daniel C. Dennett</b>, the author of <i>Freedom Evolves</i> (Viking) and <i>Darwin's Dangerous Idea</i>, is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and a grandson. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his BA in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed his D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris. His first book, <i>Content and Consciousness</i>, published in 1969, followed by <i>Brainstorms</i> (1978<i>), Elbow Room</i> (1984), <i>The Intentional Stance</i> (1987), <i>Consciousness Explained</i> (1991), <i>Darwin's Dangerous Idea</i> (1995), and <i>Kinds of Minds</i> (1996). He coedited <i>The Mind's I</i> with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981. He is the author of more than a hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from <i>Artificial Intelligence </i>and <i>Behavioral and Brain Sciences</i> to <i>Poetics Today</i> and the <i>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism</i>. His most recent book is B<i>rainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996</i> (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998).He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
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