Daniel Dennett: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Wed, May 15 2013 - 6:00pm
Co-director, Center for Cognitive Studies; Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Dennett offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Over a storied career he has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. Dennett will share the “imagination extenders and focus-holders” that he and others have developed for addressing life’s most fundamental questions, cognitive tools purpose-built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind and free will. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963.
Roy Eisenhardt - Moderator
Location: Commonwealth Club Office, 595 Market Street, at 2nd, 2nd Floor , San Francisco
Time: 5:30 p.m. check-in, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing
Cost: $20 non- members, $12 members, $7 students
TO REGISTER: Please visit http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2013-05-15/daniel-dennett-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-thinking OR Call 415 597-6705