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The influential philosopher Daniel Dennett is best known for his distinctive theory of mental content, his elucidation of how the complex components of mental processing seem to come together in the relatively coherent narratives that we tell ourselves about ourselves and in his vivid accounts of how to think about minds in their evolutionary setting. The essays in this collection step back to ask: Do the complex components of Dennett's work on intentionality, consciousness, evolution, and ethics themselves come together into a coherent philosophical system?

The essays, which grew out of a conference attended by Dennett, consider evolution, intentionality, consciousness, ontology, and ethics and free will. Unusually, for a collection of this kind, the authors were able to take account of Dennett's comments on their views. In the concluding essay, With a Little Help from My Friends, Dennett offers his own thoughts on the comprehensiveness of his philosophy.

Contributors
Andrew Brook, Timothy Crowe, Daniel C. Dennett, Paul Dumouchel, Timothy Kenyon, Dan Lloyd, Ruth Garrett Millikan, T. Brian Mooney, Thomas Polger, David Rosenthal, Don Ross, William Seager, David Thompson, Christopher Viger

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In November 1998, a group of fifteen scholars gathered at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, with Daniel C. Dennett, to study his corpus of books and articles as a set, and assess the extent to which the pieces fit together as a comprehensive philosophical system.

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Title Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment
Author Don Ross (Editor); Andrew Brook (Editor); David L. Thompson (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 448
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Bradford Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, UK
Date October 23, 2000
ISBN 9780262182003 / 0262182009
Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
Dimensions 9.24 x 6.25 x 1 in (23.47 x 15.88 x 2.54 cm)
Ages 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Library of Congress subjects Dennett, Daniel Clement
Library of Congress Catalog Number 00039449
Dewey Decimal Code 191

About the author

Richard A. Falkenrath is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and, before that, as a Research Fellow. He is the author and co-author of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998), and numerous journal articles and chapters of edited volumes. Falkenrath has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Society of Foreign Affairs (DGAP) in Bonn. He holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Occidental College, Los Angeles, with degrees in economics and international relations. He is currently serving as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Policy and Plans, Office of Homeland Security.