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Plato, galileo, einstein, for example, and most philosophers use intuition pumps to help explain their ideas. Dennett, while acknowledging his outsider status as the nonbiologist in this debate, has always done his homework, and much more. Errata for daniel dennetts new book intuition pumps and other tools for thinking. Fletcher professor of philosophy, and codirector of the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading intuition pumps and other tools for thinking. Andrew brook and don ross quipped about dennetts title consciousness explained that modesty is a virtue to be kept for special occasions. This excerpt from neurologistphilosopher daniel dennetts new book intuition pumps and other tools for thinking lays out a set of rhetorical habits that i immediately aspired to attain. A philosopher and author of a new book about tools for thinking shows how they can be used to tackle problems such as whether free will can exist in a world governed by physical laws. An intuition pump is a thought experiment or similar cognitive device designed to elicit answers to difficult philosophical problems. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the. Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking offers seventyseven of dennetts most successful imaginationextenders and focusholders meant to guide you through some of lifes most treacherous subject matter. So it should come as no surprise that his latest book, intuition pumps and other tools for thinking, is a hardheaded howto for cutting through common cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
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