Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate of the Brights movement.
Dennett received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W.V.O. Quine. In 1965, he received his D.Phil. from Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied under the ordinary language philosopher Gilbert Ryle.
Dennett gave the John Locke lectures at the University of Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. In 2001 he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize, giving the Jean Nicod Lectures in Paris. 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. He was the co-founder (1985) and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts University, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
发表于2025-01-22
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
不过还是有收获的,有几个直觉泵很有启发。 72 掘土蜂状 有限能力无法成就自由选择 如果一个人的心智到了像掘土蜂的程度,不管这是因为脑瘤或脑损伤,还是因为严重的神经失调或是精神病,或者纯粹是因为愚昧或不成熟,那么它也就无法做出有意义的事。 只有当我们的行为或选择不...
评分在近年来读过的演化心理学、认知科学、人工智能以及神经科学等领域的著作中,有一个哲学家的名字频繁出现,他就是当今最有影响力的哲学家:丹尼尔·丹尼特。 拿最近阅读的《大局观从何而来》一书为例,人类学家罗宾·邓巴就以丹尼特提出的“意向性立场”,作为其人类史“大局观...
评分(去年书刚出版时整理的清单,已经记不清有多少是出自本书有多少是他在其他场合说的,不过都挺有意思的。) 1. 科学的本质就是,在公众面前犯错,在众目睽睽下犯错,以期他人能够帮助修正这些错误。 2. 如果为了确保自己的孩子在长大成人后依然能够奉行你的信仰,从而不得不诓...
评分能感觉到作者的幽默,他用尽可能通俗的语言向人们介绍一个个“直觉泵”。 直觉泵是作者发明的名词,含义就是常说的思想实验。这一个个实验引人思考。 然而,没看懂。“得到”的万维钢老师、王烁老师都是强烈推荐,他们讲了“ 批评他人的正确方式 ”、“亿年机器人”等几个“直...
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One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders" meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering readers insight into how and why each tool was built.
Alongside well-known favorites like Occam’s Razor and reductio ad absurdum lie thrilling descriptions of Dennett’s own creations: Trapped in the Robot Control Room, Beware of the Prime Mammal, and The Wandering Two-Bitser. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett’s tools embrace in equal measure light-heartedness and accessibility as they welcome uninitiated and seasoned readers alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to "think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions."
A sweeping work of intellectual seriousness that’s also studded with impish delights, Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers—in all walks of life—delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers.
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评分可以提升一部分批判性思维能力 另外可以适当掠过一些无聊的学术案例 中文版翻译很尴尬 看英语版还算可以接受
评分评丹尼特对感质(qualia)的取消论:在丹尼特的写作中有一股显流和一股潜流。表面上他是在批判像内格尔、Jackson这样的人的实在论的感质论,深层的目标是要解构他心目中的现象学,即“基于第一人称的经验展开的哲学”。对于前一个任务,他是比较成功的,关键在于引入了自我意识中当下的知识和对过去的记忆都不可作为真实性的基准这一洞见。由此,对经验的第一人称描述就和第三人称描述一样是可错的,意识既不对自己完全透明,也不对他人完全封闭。但这一结论在多大程度上是对现象学的反驳,这是另一个问题。现象学本就没有预设实在论层面上的私人经验,它反对任何以“上帝之眼”设定的实在性;我们之所以有实在感,正是因为我们的记忆内容可以很方便地设为基准——与丹尼特所说不同,我们的记忆在某种意义上是确凿的,因为技术设定其如此。
评分未能早读到这本书,遗憾。。。
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书