«Cualquiera que esté interesado en la filosofía debería leer las memorias de Dennett y plantearse cómo consiguió su voz distintiva». Times Literary Supplement
¿Es peligrosa la religión? ¿Y la espiritualidad? ¿Solucionará la ciencia todos nuestros problemas? ¿Es arrogante ser ateo? ¿Es posible criticar una religión sin ofender a sus fieles?
Con frecuencia encontramos a seres humanos que dejan de lado sus intereses personales, su salud, sus oportunidades de tener hijos, y dedican sus vidas enteras a fomentar los intereses de una "idea". Nuestra capacidad para dedicar nuestras vidas...
Desde que Daniel Dennett publicó su influyente obra 'La conciencia explicada', en 1991, la investigación científica sobre la conciencia se ha convertido en un campo de batalla entre teorías rivales, un terreno de disputas...
Some thinkers argue that our best scientific theories about the world prove that free will is an illusion. Others disagree. The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and lega...
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers.
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed...
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about...
What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers.
In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, âsaving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will...
What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious...
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.
One of todayâs most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?, renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga...