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Daniel Dennett

The 16 Best Books of 2016

Rewarding reads on love, life, knowledge, history, the future, and tools for thinking. Out of all the books I read this year, here is a list of what I found most worth reading in 2016. 1. The …

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Daniel Dennett’s Most Useful Critical Thinking Tools

We recently discussed some wonderful mental tools from the great Richard Feynman. Let’s get some more good ones from another giant, Daniel Dennett. Dennett is one of the great thinkers in the …

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Daniel Dennett: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

After reading How to Make Mistakes and How to Criticize with Kindness, a reader sent in a link to this video of Philosopher Daniel Dennett speaking at Google. Dennett is the author of the faboulous …

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How Charitable are you Supposed to be When Criticizing the Views of an Opponent?

“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” *** Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s book, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, already gave us how …

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Daniel Dennett: How to Make Mistakes

In Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, Daniel Dennett, one of the world’s leading philosophers offers a trove of mind-stretching thought experiments, which he calls …

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