Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking /

by Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement).

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BookPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2014Description: xii, 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780241954621 (pbk.) :; 0241954622 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 153.42 DENSubject(s): Thought and thinking | Psychology | PsychologySummary: Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies and a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place in it. What can we do? In 'Intuition Pumps', Daniel Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and highly entertaining philosophical journey.

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Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies and a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place in it. What can we do? In 'Intuition Pumps', Daniel Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and highly entertaining philosophical journey.

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