In Intuition Pumps, Daniel Dennett, one of the world\'s leading philosophers, and author of Consciousness Explained and Freedom Evolves, offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments Thinking is hard.
He lives in North Andover, Massachusetts..
His books include Brainstorms, Brainchildren, Elbow Room, Consciousness Explained, Darwin\'s Dangerous Idea and Freedom Evolves.
A brilliant polemicist and philosopher, he is famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies.
Daniel Dennett is one of the most original and provocative thinkers in the world.
From Occam\'s Razor to the benefit of mistakes, the 90 per cent rule to avoiding \'deepitites\', this entertaining guide will enable you to tackle life\'s most fundamental questions - evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will - and teach you to think truly independently and creatively.
What can we do? Daniel Dennett, one of the world\'s most original thinkers, reveals a collection of his favourite Thinking tools, or \'Intuition pumps\'.
Then there\'s the rest of us: not prodigies and short on time, but still aspiring to understand the world.
A few of us may be natural geniuses; others are blessed with reserves of willpower.
In Intuition Pumps, Daniel Dennett, one of the world\'s leading philosophers, and author of Consciousness Explained and Freedom Evolves, offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments Thinking is hard
