One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
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.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers se...
One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
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.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders" meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering readers insight into how and why each tool was built.
Alongside well-known favorites like Occam’s Razor and reductio ad absurdum lie thrilling descriptions of Dennett’s own creations: Trapped in the Robot Control Room, Beware of the Prime Mammal, and The Wandering Two-Bitser. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett’s tools embrace in equal measure light-heartedness and accessibility as they welcome uninitiated and seasoned readers alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to "think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions."
A sweeping work of intellectual seriousness that’s also studded with impish delights, Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers—in all walks of life—delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers.
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Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate...
Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate of the Brights movement.
Dennett received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W.V.O. Quine. In 1965, he received his D.Phil. from Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied under the ordinary language philosopher Gilbert Ryle.
Dennett gave the John Locke lectures at the University of Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. In 2001 he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize, giving the Jean Nicod Lectures in Paris. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He was the co-founder (1985) and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts University, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
很多年前，社会心理学家兼博弈论专家阿纳托尔·拉波波特曾提出过一套规则，我认为对于那种讽刺对手的恶习，这套规则是最好的解毒剂。
拉波波特法则：如何撰写一篇成功的批评性评论。
① 你应该非常清楚、生动、不偏不倚地重述对手的想法，使得你的对手说：“谢谢你，我刚才要是像你这么表述就好了。”
② 你应该把对方观点中你所同意的部分都列出来，尤其是那种并非被人们广泛接受了的观点。
③ 你应该提到那些从你对手那里学到的东西。
④ 只有完成了以上三点，你才能说一句反驳或批评的话。
遵循此法则的一个直接的好处就是，你的对手会因此乐于倾听你的批评。因为他们看到你已经站在他们的立场上理解了他们的想法，同时你也展示出了良好的判断力，在一些重要的事情上和他们达成了共识，甚至在有些地方还被他们说服了。遵循拉波波特法则时总是令人倍感挣扎，起码对我而言是这样。说白了，有些对手不值得我们如此尊重。我不得不承认，把他们串起来烤了真是一件乐事。但当我们用了这个方法而且使用得当的时候，总是后果喜人。 (查看原文)
Rapoport's rule
① You should attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, "thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way."
② You should list any points of agreement（especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement）.
③ You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
④ Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism. (查看原文)
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0 有用 weihu 2016-07-29 12:08:48
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2 有用 whig 2014-10-17 23:27:53
内容本身很好，不过多数在他之前的书里都出现过，没什么新东西
0 有用 sherry 2024-04-26 09:29:43 浙江
reading for work, completely reductionism.
0 有用 蝉 2013-12-09 09:45:56
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1 有用 Kymair 2018-08-15 22:50:49
一开始读的挺痛苦，后面逐渐讲图灵机、人工智能、进化论、自私的基因、意识等话题，就慢慢轻松起来，越读越有意思。以后大概不会有纯粹的哲学家了吧？连意识这宇宙中最神秘的现象都居然快能被理解了。