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Brainchildren

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Representation and Mind

Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editorsHilary Putnam,

Representation and Reality

Fred Dretske,

Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes

Jerrold J. Katz,

The Metaphysics of Meaning

Jerry A. Fodor,

A Theory of Content and Other Essays

Cora Diamond,

The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind

Stephen L. White,

The Unity of the Self

Michael Tye,

The Imagery Debate

Christopher Peacocke,

A Study of Concepts

John R. Searle,

The Rediscovery of the Mind

John Campbell,

Past, Space, and Self

Galen Strawson,

Mental Reality

Michael Tye,

Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind

Robert Cummins,

Representations, Targets, and Attitudes

Edited by Peter J. McCormick,

Starmaking: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism

Hao Wang,

A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy

Jerrold J. Katz,

Realistic Rationalism

Daniel C. Dennett,

Brainchildren: Essays of Designing Minds

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Brainchildren

Essays on Designing Minds

Daniel C. Dennett

A Bradford BookThe MIT PressCambridge, Massachusetts

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© 1998 Daniel C. DennettAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanicalmeans (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission inwriting from the publisher.This book was set in Palatino by Achorn Graphic Services and was printed and bound in the UnitedStates of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dennett, Daniel Clement.Brainchildren: essays on designing minds / Daniel C. Dennett.p. cm.—(Representation and mind. A Bradford Book)Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-262-04166-9 (hardcover: alk. paper).—ISBN 0-262-54090-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Artificial intelligence. 3. Animal intelligence.I. Title. II. Series.BD418.3.D46 1998128'.2–dc2197–9440CIP