Sweet Dreams

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Dennett, Daniel C. 저자(글)

MIT Press · 2006년 09월 08일

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Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University
This collection of essays by artists and mathematicians continues the discussion of the connections between art and mathematics begun in the first volume of 'The Visual Mind' in 1993.
In the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explainedwas published in 1991, scientific research on consciousness has been a hotly contested battleground of rival theories -- "so rambunctious," Dennett observes, "that several people are writing books just about the tumult." With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in the field since 1991 as well as recent theoretical challenges. In Consciousness Explained, Dennett proposed to replace the ubiquitous but bankrupt Cartesian Theater model (which posits a privileged place in the brain where "it all comes together" for the magic show of consciousness) with the Multiple Drafts Model. Drawing on psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, he asserted that human consciousness is essentially the mental software that reorganizes the functional architecture of the brain. In Sweet Dreams, he recasts the Multiple Drafts Model as the "fame in the brain" model, as a background against which to examine the philosophical issues that "continue to bedevil the field." With his usual clarity and brio, Dennett enlivens his arguments with a variety of vivid examples. He isolates the "Zombic Hunch" that distorts much of the theorizing of both philosophers and scientists, and defends heterophenomenology, his "third-person" approach to the science of consciousness, against persistent misinterpretations and objections. The old challenge of Frank Jackson's thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is given a new rebuttal in the form of "RoboMary," while his discussion of a famous card trick, "The Tuned Deck," is designed to show that David Chalmers's Hard Problem is probably just a figment of theorists' misexploited imagination. In the final essay, the "intrinsic" nature of "qualia" is compared with the naively imagined "intrinsic value" of a dollar in "Consciousness -- How Much is That in RealMoney?"
"In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his opposition's arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo.... He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us." The Globe 100, the "Best and Most Influential Books of 2005" -- The Globe and Mail
" In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his oppositionrs" s arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo.... He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us." The Globe 100, the " Best and Most Influential Books of 2005" -- "The Globe and Mail"
"In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his opposition's arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo.... He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us." The Globe 100, the "Best and Most Influential Books of 2005" The Globe and Mail
"Into this fray ridesonce again the tireless figure of Daniel Dennett, ... whose new book, "Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness" is a collection of essays devoted mainly to identifying and pummeling those diehard intuitions that he believes, rightly, still obstruct the progress of cognitive neuroscience" -- "The New Scientist"
"Into this fray ridesonce again the tireless figure of Daniel Dennett,... whose new book, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a collection of essays devoted mainly to identifying and pummeling those diehard intuitions that he believes, rightly, still obstruct the progress of cognitive neuroscience" The New Scientist
One of the 100 Most Influential Books of 2005: "In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his opposition's arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo.... He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us." The Globe and Mail
" "Sweet Dreams" is a collection of essays and lectures written between 1999 and 2005 in which Dennett tries to freeze time and present a 'best' version of his evolving ideas... the overall picture gives a good idea of where Dennett's thinking has been going." -- "Nature"
"In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his opposition's arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo.... He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us." The Globe 100, the "Best and Most Influential Books of 2005" - The Globe and Mail
"Into this fray ridesonce again the tireless figure of Daniel Dennett,... whose new book, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousnessis a collection of essays devoted mainly to identifying and pummeling those diehard intuitions that he believes, rightly, still obstruct the progress of cognitive neuroscience" - The New Scientist
" Sweet Dreamsis a collection of essays and lectures written between 1999 and 2005 in which Dennett tries to freeze time and present a 'best' version of his evolving ideas... the overall picture gives a good idea of where Dennett's thinking has been going." - Nature
"Sweet Dreamsis a collection of essays and lectures written between 1999 and 2005 in which Dennett tries to freeze time and present a 'best' version of his evolving ideas... the overall picture gives a good idea of where Dennett's thinking has been going." - Nature
The author of Consciousness Explained revises and renews his Multiple Drafts Model of consciousness in the light of recent research.

작가정보

저자(글) Dennett, Daniel C.

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room T he Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.

목차

• Series Foreword	p. vii
  Preface	p. ix
  The Zombie Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?	p. 1
  The Naturalistic Turn	p. 1
  The Reactionaries	p. 8
  An Embarrassment of Zombies	p. 13
  Broad Functionalism and Minimalism	p. 17
  The Future of an Illusion	p. 22
  A Third-Person Approach to Consciousness	p. 25
  Scientists from Mars	p. 25
  Folk Theories and Philosophy	p. 31
  Heterophenomenology Revisited	p. 35
  David Chalmers as Heterophenomenological Subject	p. 47
  The Second-Person Point of View	p. 49
  Explaining the "Magic" of Consciousness	p. 57
  The Thankless Task of Explaining Magic	p. 58
  Dismantling the Audience	p. 69
  The Tuned Deck	p. 72
  Are Qualia What Make Life Worth Living?	p. 77
  The Quale, An Elusive Quarry	p. 77
  Change Blindness and a Question about Qualia	p. 82
  Sweet Dreams and the Nightmare of Mr. Clapgras	p. 91
  What RoboMary Knows	p. 103
  Mary and the Blue Banana	p. 104
  "Surely" She'll Be Surprised	p. 107
  You Had to Be There!	p. 116
  RoboMary	p. 122
  Locked RoboMary	p. 126
  Are We Explaining Consciousness Yet?	p. 131
  Clawing Our Way toward Consensus	p. 131
  Competition for Clout	p. 136
  Is There Also a Hard Problem?	p. 143
  But What about "Qualia"?	p. 151
  Conclusion	p. 157
  A Fantasy Echo Theory of Consciousness	p. 159
  Fleeting Fame	p. 160
  Instant Replay	p. 167
  Consciousness: How Much Is That in Real Money?	p. 173
  References	p. 179
  Index	p. 189
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기본정보

ISBN	9780262541916 ( 0262541912 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 09월 08일
쪽수	216쪽
크기	137 * 201 * 15 mm / 249 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어