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Intuition Pumps by Daniel C. Dennett

Nathaniel Goldberg shares his intuitions about Daniel Dennett’s Intuition Pumps.

Two notable things set Daniel Dennett apart from most other professional philosophers. First, Dennett is an interdisciplinarian par excellance. He moves effortlessly between philosophical topics such as meaning, consciousness, and free will on the one hand, and scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, biology, and neuroscience on the other. Second, besides being learned, Dennett is just plain clever. His writing is infused with anecdotes, examples, and above all, the disarming of others’, and arming of his own, intuition pumps.

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