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Daniel C. Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back : the Evolution of Minds
- Publication Name
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- Title
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- Subtitle
- The Evolution of Minds
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0393355500
- EAN
- 9780393355505
- ISBN
- 9780393355505
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Psychology, Religion, Philosophy
- Topic
- Mind & Body, Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 06/03/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 13.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." -- Nature How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind? In From Bacteria to Bach and Back , Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don't just perceive and react, they create and comprehend. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393355500
ISBN-13
9780393355505
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238026508
Product Key Features
Book Title
From Bacteria to Bach and Back : the Evolution of Minds
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mind & Body, Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Psychology, Religion, Philosophy
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
B105.C477d445 2017
Reviews
[The] best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved...A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come., If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surely should...very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinking tools.'...Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across., Illuminating and insightful. . . . [Dennett] makes a convincing case, based on a rapidly growing body of experimental evidence, that a materialist theory of mind is within reach. . . . His ideas demand serious consideration., Encyclopedic knowledge of both the history of and the latest thinking in philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science., ""If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surely should . . . very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinking tools.' . . . . Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across.", [Ties] together 50 years of thinking about where minds come from and how they work. . . . Dennett has earned his reputation as one of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers, as this subtle, clever book shows. . . . Immensely instructive and pleasurable., [Ties] together 50 years of thinking about where minds come from and how they work.... Dennett has earned his reputation as one of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers, as this subtle, clever book shows.... Immensely instructive and pleasurable., A supremely enjoyable,intoxicating work, tying together 50 years of thinking about where minds comefrom and how they work. . . . Dennett has earned his reputation as one oftoday's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literatephilosophers, as this subtle, clever book shows . . . . immensely instructiveand pleasurable., If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surelyshould . . . very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinkingtools.' . . . . Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you tomost of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across., In From Bacteria toBach and Back, his eighteenth book (thirteenth as sole author), Dennettpresents a valuable and typically lucid synthesis of his worldview . . . .Dennett is always good company . . . . he writes with wit and elegance . . . . distinctive., Daniel Dennett has written an absolute firecracker of a book, one revisiting in depth and breadth the central theme of his life's work--understanding and explaining how we are conscious. . . . Dennett's language is wonderfully robust, and reads as if he is carrying on an argument with both himself and the engaged, but somewhat skeptical, reader. The writing is by turns humorous, wry and profound. It is dotted with brilliant phrasing. It is an exhilarating read; this book deserves to be taken deeply seriously as the best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved. . . . A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come., Daniel Dennett has written an absolute firecracker of a book, one revisiting in depth and breadth the central theme of his life's work--understanding and explaining how we are conscious.... Dennett's language is wonderfully robust, and reads as if he is carrying on an argument with both himself and the engaged, but somewhat skeptical, reader. The writing is by turns humorous, wry and profound. It is dotted with brilliant phrasing. It is an exhilarating read; this book deserves to be taken deeply seriously as the best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved.... A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come., ""If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surely should ... very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinking tools.' ... Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you to most of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across."
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-046790
Dewey Decimal
128.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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