Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking (Record no. 44457)
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| fixed length control field | 03999 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393348781 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 121.3 |
| Item number | DEN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dennett, Daniel C. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii,496p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Preface xiii<br/>INTRODUCTION: What Is an Intuition Pump? i<br/>I. A DOZEN GENERAL THINKING TOOLS 17<br/>1. Making Mistakes 19<br/>2. "By Parody of Reasoning": Using Reductio ad Absurdum 29<br/>3. Rapoport's Rules 33<br/>4. Sturgeon's Law 36<br/>5. Occam's Razor 38<br/>6. Occam's Broom 40<br/>7. Using Lay Audiences as Decoys 42<br/>8. Jootsing 45<br/>9. Three Species of Goulding: Rathering, Piling On, and the Gould Two-Step 48<br/>10. The "Surely" Operator: A Mental Block 53<br/>11. Rhetorical Questions 55<br/>12. What Is a Deepity? 56 <br/>Summary 58<br/>III. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT MEANING <br/>OR CONTENT 59 <br/>13. Murder in Trafalgar Square 61 <br/>14. An Older Brother Living in Cleveland 65 <br/>15. "Daddy Is a Doctor" 68 <br/>16. Manifest Image and Scientific Image 69 <br/>17. Folk Psychology 73 <br/>18. The Intentional Stance 77 <br/>19. The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction 86<br/>20. A Cascade of Homunculi 91 <br/>21. The Sorta Operator 96 <br/>22. Wonder Tissue 98<br/>23. Trapped in the Robot Control Room 102<br/>IV. AN INTERLUDE ABOUT COMPUTERS 107<br/>24. The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed 109<br/>25. Virtual Machines 133<br/>26. Algorithms 140<br/>27. Automating the Elevator 143 <br/>Summary 148<br/>V. MORE TOOLS ABOUT MEANING 151<br/>28. A Thing about Redheads 153<br/>29. The Wandering Two-Bitser, Twin Earth, and the Giant Robot 157<br/>30. Radical Translation and a Quinian Crossword Puzzle 175<br/>31. Semantic Engines and Syntactic Engines 178<br/>32. Swampman Meets a Cow-Shark 180<br/>33. Two Black Boxes 184 <br/>Summary 197<br/>VI. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT EVOLUTION 201<br/>34. Universal Acid 203<br/>35. The Library of Mendel: Vast and Vanishing 205<br/>36. Genes as Words or as Subroutines 214<br/>37. The Tree of Life 217<br/>38. Cranes and Skyhooks, Lifting in Design Space 218<br/>39. Competence without Comprehension 232<br/>40. Free-Floating Rationales 234<br/>41. Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers? 236 <br/>42. How to Explain Stotting 238 <br/>43. Beware of the Prime Mammal 240<br/>44. When Does Speciation Occur? 244<br/>45. Widowmakers, Mitochondrial Eve, and Retrospective Coronations 247<br/>46. Cycles 252<br/>47. What Does the Frog's Eye Tell the Frog's Brain? 256<br/>48. Leaping through Space in the Library of Babel 258<br/>49. Who Is the Author of Spamlet? 260<br/>50. Noise in the Virtual Hotel 267<br/>51. Herb, Alice, and Hal, the Baby 271<br/>52. Memes 274 <br/>Summary 277 <br/>VII.TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS 279<br/>53. Two Counter-images 281<br/>54. The Zombic Hunch 283<br/>55. Zombies and Zimboes 288<br/>56. The Curse of the Cauliflower 296<br/>57. Vim: How Much Is That in "Real Money"? 299<br/>58. The Sad Case of Mr. Clapgras 302<br/>59. The Tuned Deck 310<br/>60. The Chinese Room 319<br/>61. The Teleclone Fall from Mars to Earth 330<br/>62. The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity 333<br/>63. Heterophenomenology 341<br/>64. Mary the Color Scientist: A Boom Crutch Unveiled 347 <br/>Summary 352<br/>VIII. TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT FREE WILL 355<br/>65. A Truly Nefarious Neurosurgeon 357<br/>66. A Deterministic Toy: Conway's Game of Life 359 <br/>67. Rock, Paper, and Scissors 370 <br/>68. Two Lotteries 375<br/>69. Inert Historical Facts 378<br/>70. A Computer Chess Marathon 384 <br/>71. Ultimate Responsibility 393 <br/>72. Sphexishness 397 <br/>73. The Boys from Brazil: Another Boom Crutch 401<br/>Summary 406 <br/>IX. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A PHILOSOPHER? 409<br/>74. A Faustian Bargain 411<br/>75. Philosophy as Naive Auto-anthropology 414<br/>76. Higher-Order Truths of Chmess 418<br/>77. The 10 Percent That's Good 425 <br/>X. USE THE TOOLS. TRY HARDER. 429<br/>XI. WHAT GOT LEFT OUT 431<br/>Appendix: Solutions to Register Machine Problems 433 <br/>Sources 445 <br/>Bibliography 451 <br/>Credits 461 <br/>Index 463<br/> <br/><br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FP |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Planning | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 02/08/2016 | amazon.in | 954.00 | 1 | 121.3 DEN | 016426 | 24/10/2018 | 22/10/2018 | 954.00 | 02/08/2016 | Book |