Daniel C. Dennett - Toward a Science of Consciousness (22 books) torrent

* Daniel C. Dennett - Toward a Science of Consciousness (22 books)

DANIEL C. DENNETT (b. 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. A vocal atheist and secularist, Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

Studying under Gilbert Ryle, Dennett was primarily concerned with providing a philosophy of mind that is grounded in empirical research. In his original dissertation, CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS (1969), he broke up the problem of explaining the mind into the need for a theory of content and for a theory of consciousness.

Dennett also made autodidactic forays into the fields of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. He had become convinced that only by being informed by science could one have a productive philosophical debate about the mind and find a solution to the mind-body problem (the question of how the mental is related to the physical). His somewhat unorthodox approach, which reflected his skepticism of traditional methods of philosophy, cast him as a radical among his colleagues. Nevertheless, his interdisciplinary strategy became more prevalent among philosophers as scientific researchers gathered more information about the brain's mechanisms.

Dennett has authored a number of books detailing his theories of consciousness. CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED (1991) offered an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. In DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA (1995), Dennett looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory to make the case that natural selection is a blind process which is nevertheless sufficiently powerful to explain the evolution of the brain and human consciousness. He continued to explore and to demystify those phenomena in KINDS OF MINDS (1996) and INTUITION PUMPS AND OTHER TOOLS FOR THINKING (2013). His most recent book, FROM BACTERIA TO BACH AND BACK: THE EVOLUTION OF MINDS (2017), makes a case for a materialist theory of mind, arguing that consciousness is no more mysterious than gravity.
In addition to over 200 unitemized academic papers and other writings, the following books are in ePub and/or PDF format as indicated:

* Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (MIT, 1998) – PDF

* Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (MIT, 2017) – ePub + PDF

* Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Penguin, 2007) – ePub

* Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind [with L. LaScola] (Pitchstone, 2015) – ePub

* Consciousness Explained (Penguin, 1993 / Little Brown, 2017) – ePub

* Content and Consciousness (Routledge, 2010) – ePub

* Content and Consciousness Revisited [ed. Muñoz-Suárez] (Springer, 2015) – PDF

* Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Penguin, 1995 / S&S, 2014) – ePub

* Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (MIT, 2015) – ePub

* The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution [with Dawkins et al.] (Random House, 2019) – ePub + PDF

* Freedom Evolves (Penguin, 2004) – ePub

* From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Norton, 2017) – ePub + PDF

* Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind (MIT, 2011) – ePub + PDF

* The Intentional Stance (MIT, 1987) – PDF

* Intuition Pumps and Other Tools (Norton / Penguin, 2013) – ePub

* Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (Polity, 2021) – ePub

* Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (Basic Books, 1996 / Phoenix, 2013) – ePub + PDF

* The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul [with Hofstadter] (Harvester, 1981) – PDF

* Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language (Columbia, 2007) – ePub + PDF

* The Philosophical Lexicon, 9e (online, 2008) – PDF

* Philosophy of Daniel Dennett [ed. Huebner] (Oxford, 2017) – PDF

* Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? [with Plantinga] (Oxford, 2011) – PDF

* Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (MIT, 2005) – ePub + PDF
SEE ALSO:

* Richard Dawkins - Evolutionary Biology and the New Atheism (22 books)
https://www.1337x.to/torrent/5459902/Richard-Dawkins-Evolutionary-Biology-and-the-New-Atheism-22-books/

* Christopher Hitchens - Essays, Nonfiction and Debates (30 books)
https://www.1337x.to/torrent/2656965/Christopher-Hitchens-Essays-Nonfiction-and-Debates-30-books/
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