- Published: 8 September 2006
- ISBN: 9780262541916
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $42.99
Sweet Dreams
Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness















- Published: 8 September 2006
- ISBN: 9780262541916
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $42.99
Into this fray ridesonce again the tireless figure of Daniel Dennett...whose new book, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a collection of essays devoted mainly to identifying and pummeling those diehard intuitions that he believes, rightly, still obstruct the progress of cognitive neuroscience.—The New Scientist— In characteristically playful mode, Darwinian fundamentalist Daniel Dennett turns his opposition's arguments against them in a masterful display of philosophical judo...He is on his way to becoming the Herbert Spencer of our age, the man of ideas who can bridge radition and science, giving us a sense of how it is that the robot in the mirror is really us. —One of the 100 Most Influential Books of 2005, The Globe and Mail—