The Robot's Rebellion
Subtitle: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780226770895
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Science; Science/Mathematics; Cognitive Psychology; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / Humanism; General; Evolutionary psychology; Meaning (Philosophy); Philosophical anthropology
First sentence: What philosopher Daniel Dennett is referring to in the quote above is something that is known to an intellectual elite but largely unknown to the general public: that the cognitive sciences will, in the twenty-first century, destroy many traditional concepts that humans have lived with for centuries.