Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and the author of numerous books, including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained. He lives with his wife in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work, tying 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."
*Nature*
"In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his eighteenth book (thirteenth
as sole author), Dennett presents a valuable and typically lucid
synthesis of his worldview . . . . Dennett is always good company .
. . . he writes with wit and elegance . . . . distinctive."
*Thomas Nagel - The New York Review of Books*
"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."
*Adam Zeman - Standpoint*
"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."
*Publishers' Weekly*
"A subtle and interesting argument."
*Stephen Rose - The Guardian*
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