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2000
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 ...
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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 ...
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Inquiry, 1993
Drawing on data from contemporary experimental psychology and research in artificial intelligence, Dennett argues for a multiple drafts model of human consciousness, which he offers as an alternative to what he calls Cartesian materialism. I argue that the considerations Dennett advances do not, in fact, call for the abandonment of Cartesian ...
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Drawing on data from contemporary experimental psychology and research in artificial intelligence, Dennett argues for a multiple drafts model of human consciousness, which he offers as an alternative to what he calls Cartesian materialism. I argue that the considerations Dennett advances do not, in fact, call for the abandonment of Cartesian ...
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1998
Pessoa et al. misinterpret some of Dennett's discussion of filling-in. Their argument against the representational conception of vision and for a Gibsonian alternative is also flawed.
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Pessoa et al. misinterpret some of Dennett's discussion of filling-in. Their argument against the representational conception of vision and for a Gibsonian alternative is also flawed.
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Dennett’s Unrealistic Psychology
Philosophical Topics, 1994Throughout his career, Dan Dennett has sought to wed the tradition of conceptual analysis to the recently emerging cognitive and neurosciences. The articles collected in Brainstorms 2 I think particularly of the rich piece "Why a Computer Can't Feel Pain" but also of the more intimate "How to Change Your Mind" and the witty "Where Am I?" have been ...
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Dennett’s Overlooked Originality
Minds and Machines, 2006?No philosopher has worked harder than Dan Dennett to set the possibility of machine mentality on firm philosophical footing. Dennett's defense of this possibility has both a positive and a negative thrust. On the positive side, he has developed an account of mental activity that is tailor-made for the attribution of intentional states to purely ...
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Dennett on Consciousness: Realism Without the Hysterics
, 2020Francis Fallon
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The Evolution of Exaptation, and How Exaptation Survived Dennett’s Criticism
, 2020T. Pievani, Filippo Sanguettoli
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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2006
Dennett’s eliminativist theory of consciousness rests on an implausible reduction of sensory seeming to cognitive judgment. The “heterophenomenological” testimony to which he appeals in urging that reduction poses no threat to phenomenology, but merely demonstrates the conceptual indeterminacy of small-scale sensory appearances.
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Dennett’s eliminativist theory of consciousness rests on an implausible reduction of sensory seeming to cognitive judgment. The “heterophenomenological” testimony to which he appeals in urging that reduction poses no threat to phenomenology, but merely demonstrates the conceptual indeterminacy of small-scale sensory appearances.
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