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    The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min
    In 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s first master spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. On the way, a plane carrying him to Ethiopia went down, killing everyone on board. Today, Dennett is recognized by the CIA as a “fallen star” and is an important figure in US intelligence history. Yet the true story behind his death remains clouded in secrecy.In The Crash of Flight 3804, investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, the French, and the Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through vivid storytelling, extensive research, and deep analysis of region-defining maps, she reveals how feverish competition among intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks and targeted killings that continue to this day. By introducing the listener to all the major players, the audiobook delivers an irrefutable indictment of these devastating forces and how the brutal violence they incite has shaped the Middle East and birthed an era of endless wars.Part personal pilgrimage, part detective story, Dennett’s insightful reportage and deft critique examines what happens to international relations when oil wealth hangs in the balance, shining a light on what so many have actually been dying for.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tia Rider. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187554/bk_acx0_187554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will while jettisoning the impediments". In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting - those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility - are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail. Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties" in which they are often enmeshed - imaginary agents and bogeymen, including the Peremptory Puppeteer, the Nefarious Neurosurgeon, and the Cosmic Child Whose Dolls We Are. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he concludes that we can have free will and science, too. He explores reason, control and self-control, the meaning of "can" and "could have done otherwise", responsibility and punishment, and why we would want free will in the first place. A fresh listening of Dennett's book shows how much it can still contribute to current discussions of free will. This edition includes as its afterword Dennett's 2012 Erasmus Prize essay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Hagen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001814/bk_gdan_001814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
    What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age - the phenomenon of clergy who no longer believe what they publicly preach. In confidential interviews, clergy from across the ministerial spectrum - from liberal to literal - reveal how their lives of religious service and study have led them to a truth inimical to their professed beliefs and profession. Although their personal stories are as varied as the denominations they once represented, or continue to represent - whether Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Mormon, Pentecostal, or any of numerous others - they give voice not only to their own struggles but also to those who similarly suffer in tender and lonely silence. As this study poignantly and vividly reveals, their common journey has far-reaching implications not only for their families, their congregations, and their communities - but also for the very future of religion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Linda LaScola. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034109/bk_acx0_034109_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Consciousness Explained (eBook, ePUB)
    "Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots--are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book.
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    Neurowissenschaft und Philosophie
    Als der Neurowissenschaftler Maxwell Bennett und der Philosoph Peter Hacker den Klassiker Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience veröffentlichten, war dies die erste systematische Untersuchung der begrifflichen Grundlagen der Neurowissenschaften und der Startschuss für den bis heute intensiv geführten Kampf um die Deutungsmacht über den menschlichen Geist. Besonders kritisch fiel seinerzeit die Auseinandersetzung mit den einflussreichen Arbeiten von Daniel Dennett und John Searle aus - also mit jenen beiden Denkern, die von der neurowissenschaftlichen Seite gerne als philosophische Gewährsmänner herangezogen werden. In Neurowissenschaft und Philosophie diskutieren die vier kongenialen »Streithähne« miteinander.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Consciousness, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, we'll explore the mystery of consciousness. First, artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky. Next, physicist Roger Penrose. Then, philosopher Daniel Dennett and New Age guru Deepak Chopra. Neuro-psychiatrist Louann Brizendine ( The Female Brain) will join us, followed by former Buddhist monk Alan Wallace ( Contemplative Science). Finally, author Daniel Tammet ( Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant). [Broadcast Date: March 7, 2008] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/080307/rt_tbon_080307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 802min
    Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering listeners insight into how and why each tool was built. Alongside well-known favorites like Occam’s Razor and reductio ad absurdum lie thrilling descriptions of Dennett’s own creations: Trapped in the Robot Control Room, Beware of the Prime Mammal, and The Wandering Two-Bitser. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett’s tools embrace in equal measure light-heartedness and accessibility as they welcome uninitiated and seasoned listeners alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to “think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions.” A sweeping work of intellectual seriousness that’s also studded with impish delights, Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers - in all walks of life - delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Crawford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004952/bk_brll_004952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Content and Consciousness Revisited
    Content and Consciousness Revisited ab 96.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: With Replies by Daniel Dennett. 1st ed. 2015. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Philosophie,
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge, Electrons to Enlightenment, Part Four: Debating Darwin, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, the theory of evolution that is the flashpoint in the war between science and religion. First, philosopher and author Daniel Dennett (Darwin's Dangerous Idea). Next, evolutionary biologist Randy Olson (Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, a documentary). Then, Paul White (the Darwin Correspondence Project). Also, biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion). Plus, creationist Paul Nelson. After, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (Life's Solution). Finally, biologist Elisabet Sahtouris (Earthdance). [Broadcast Date: August 3, 2007] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/070803/rt_tbon_070803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Worüber müssen wir nachdenken?
    Lesen, was in den Köpfen der Genies steckt!John Brockman stellt in seinem legendären »Edge«-Forum führenden Wissenschaftlern der Welt die Frage, über welche Themen sie nachdenken, und meinen, dass andere das dringend auch tun sollten. Entstanden ist ein kurzweiliges, unterhaltsames und inspirierendes Panorama aus allen Bereichen der Wissenschaft; mit Beiträgen u.a. von David Bodanis, Rodney A. Brooks, Nicholas A. Christakis, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Daniel C. Dennett, Rolf Dobelli, George Dyson, Brian Eno, Daniel L. Everett, Arianna Huffington, Andrian Kreye, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tim O'Reilly, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Martin Rees, Dan Sperber, J. Craig Venter und Anton Zeilinger.
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