Brainstorms
1978 book by American philosopher Daniel Dennett
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Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology is a 1978 book by American philosopher Daniel Dennett. The book is a collection of seventeen essays in which Dennett reflects on the early achievements of artificial intelligence to develop his ideas on consciousness, theory of mind, and free will.
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| Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Artificial intelligence Consciousness |
| Published | 1978 (Bradford Books[1]) 1981 (MIT Press) |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 9780897060011 |
Reception
Douglas Hofstadter, writing in the New York Review of Books, praised Brainstorms, calling it "one of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written".[2] John Haugeland reviewed Brainstorms for the journal Philosophy of Science where he called it "philosophically important and delightfully written", though he criticised Dennett's arguments about morality.[3] Gilbert Harman, writing in The Philosophical Review, called Brainstorms "brilliant".[4] Robert Cummins wrote in Philosophical Topics that Brainstorms is "important and good" and called it "the most entertaining bit of non-fiction I've read in a long while."[1]
