The Intentional Stance
$87.63
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
6 March 1989
Summary
How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such “folk” concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, asserts Daniel Dennett in this first full-scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years. We adopt a stance, he argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people—or other entities—we are hoping to understand…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262540537 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262540533 |
| Author: | Daniel C. Dennett |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 6 March 1989 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 149mm x 229mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Dennett’s essays are vivid, witty and admirably provocative.
Dennett’s essays are vivid, witty and admirably provocative.
—P. N. JohnsonLaird, The London Review of BooksDaniel C. Dennett
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: The 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.
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