AVAILABLE PREPRINTS BY DANIEL DENNETT:
1990-2 "'Epiphenomena:' what are you talking about?"
1990-4 "Do-It-Yourself Understanding."
1991-1 "Two Black Boxes: A Fable."
1992-1 "Verbal Language as a Communicative
System," in Italian translation.
1994-1 "Postscript, 1994," for
P.K. Moser and J.D. Trout, eds, Materialism, to be published by Routledge
Ltd in late 1994.
1996-4 "Consciousness in Human and
Robot Minds," in volume of the International Institute for Advanced
Studies, (Kyoto, Japan, September, 1994), volume on Cognition, Computation
and Consciousness, Ito et al, eds., to be published by OUP.
1996-5 "Cog as a Thought Experiment,"
For Monte Verita special issue, forthcoming
1996-6 "Did HAL Commit Murder?"
For Stork volume, 2001.
1996-7 "One Fan's Pratfalls" forthcoming
in Boston Review
1987
- "Eliminate the Middletoad!" (commentary
on Ewert), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 372-4, 1987.
- "Commentary on Cam," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, XLVIII, 339-41, December 1987.
- "Intentionality" (with John Haugeland),
in R. L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Oxford
University Press 1987
1988
"Quining Qualia," in A. Marcel
and E. Bisiach, eds, Consciousness in Modern Science, Oxford University
Press 1988
"Why Creative Intelligence is Hard to
Find," (Commentary on Whiten and Byrne), BBS.
"Out of the Armchair and Into the Field,"
Poetics Today.
"Evolution, Error and Intentionality,"
in Y. Wilks and D. Partridge, eds, Sourcebook on the Foundations of
Artificial Intelligence, New Mexico University Press 1988.
1989
- N. Humphrey and Dennett, "Speaking for
Our Selves," in Raritan.
- "The Origins of Selves," Cogito,
3, 163-73, Autumn 1989. Reprinted in Daniel Kolak and R. Martin, eds.,
Self & Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues, Macmillan,
1991.
- review of Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind:
Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, in Times Literary
Supplement.
- "Cognitive Ethology: Hunting for Bargains
or a Wild Goose Chase?" in Montefiore and Noble, eds., Goals, Own
Goals, and No-Goals, Unwyn Hyman.
- "Mother Nature versus the Walking Encyclopedia,"
In Ramsey, Rumelhart and Stich, eds., Philosophy and Connectionist Theory.
1990
"Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination,"
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 48:2, Spring.
"The Interpretation of Texts, People
and Other Artifacts," in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
I, Supplement, Fall.
1991
- "Granny's Campaign for Safe Science,"
in B. Lower and G. Rey eds., Meaning in Mind: Fodor and his Critics,
Blackwell.
- "Two Contrasts: Folk Craft versus Folk
Science and Belief versus Opinion," Greensboro NC conference on the
Future of Folk Psychology, in J. D. Greenwood, ed., The Future of Folk
Psychology.
- "The Brain and its Boundaries," (review
of C. McGinn, The Problem of Consciousness), The Times Literary Supplement,
May 10, 10, 1991.
- "Real Patterns," Journal of
Philosophy, 88:1, 27-51.
- "Lovely and Suspect Qualities,"
in E. Villanueva, ed., Consciousness.
1992
- Dennett and Kinsbourne, M., "Time and
the Observer," BBS, 15, 183-247. & reply, "Escape
from the Cartesian Theater."
- "Temporal Anomalies of Consciousness:
Implications for the Uncentered Brain," in Neurophilosophy and
Alzheimer's Disease, Christen et al. eds., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
- "The Self as the Center of Narrative
Gravity," in Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives,
Kessel, Cole, Johnson eds., Erlbaum.
- "Filling In versus Finding Out: A Ubiquitous
Confusion in Cognitive Science," in Cognition, Conceptual, and
Methodological Issues, Pick, Van den Broek, Knill, eds., American Psychological
Assn.
- review of Varela et al, The Embodied Mind,
and Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, in New Scientist,
13 June.
- "Hitting the Nail on the Head,"
(commentary on Thompson, Palacios and Varela), Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 15, 1, p. 35, 1992.
1993
- "Living on the Edge," Inquiry,
36, March.
- review of Varela et al, The Embodied Mind,
Amer. Jnl. of Psych., 106, No. 1, Spring, pp. 121-25.
- "Back from the Drawing Board: reply
to my critics," in Dahlbom, ed. Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying
Mind. Oxford: Blackwell.
- "The Message is: There is no Medium,"
reply to Jackson, Rosenthal, Shoemaker & Tye in Philosophy &
Phenomenological Research (Dec.), v. 53, n. 4, pp. 889-931.
- review of Allen Newell, Unified Theories
of Cognition, Artificial Intelligence, 59, (1-2), 285-294, Feb.
- "Down with School! Up with Logoland!:
review of Seymour Papert, The Children's Machine: Rethinking School
in the Age of the Computer" New Scientist, 140, 1898, 45-46,
Nov. 1993.
- "Multiple Drafts: An eternal golden
braid?", with M. Kinsbourne, response to Glicksohn and Salter in Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, vol. 18, no. 4, 1995, pp. 810-11.
- "Learning and Labeling," commentary
on Clark and Karmiloff-Smith, "The Cognizer's Innards," Mind
and Language. 8, (4), 540-547, Winter.
- "Evolution, Teleology, Intentionality,"
(continuing commentary on "Précis of The Intentional Stance"),
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, (2), 289-391.
- "Caveat Emptor," reply to essays
on Consciousness Explained (reply to Mangan, Toribio, Baars and
McGovern), Consciousness and Cognition, 2, (1), 48-57, Mar.
- review of John Searle, The Rediscovery of
the Mind, Journal of Philosophy, 60, (4), 193-205, Apr.
1994
- "Cognitive Science as Reverse Engineering:
Several Meanings of 'Top Down' and 'Bottom Up,'" in Logic, Methodology
and Philosophy of Science IX, D. Prawitz, B. Skyrms, and D. Westerståhl,
eds., Elsevier Science, BV, Amsterdam, North-Holland, pp. 679-689.
- "Self Portrait," S. Guttenplan,
ed., A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell Press, Oxford,
pp. 236-244.
- "Real Consciousness," and "Instead
of Qualia," in Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience,
A. Revonsuo & M. Kamppinen, eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- "Counting Consciousnesses: None, One,
Two, or None of the Above?" (with Marcel Kinsbourne) continuing commentary
on "Time and the Observer" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
v. 17, n. 1, pp. 178-80.
- "The Practical Requirements for Making
a Conscious Robot," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,
A, v. 349, pp. 133-146.
- Review of Jackendoff, Patterns in the
Mind and Pinker, The Language Instinct, London Review of
Books, (23 June), v. 16, n. 12, pp. 10-11.
- "The Role of Language in Intelligence,"
in What is Intelligence?, The Darwin College Lectures, ed. Jean
Khalfa, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press.
- "Get Real," reply to my critics,
in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no 1 &2, Spring & Fall
1994.
- "E Pluribus Unum?" commentary on
Wilson & Sober: Group Selection, BBS, vol. 17, no. 4, 1994,
pp. 617-18.
1995
- "Is Perception the 'Leading Edge' of
Memory?" A. Spadafora (ed.) Iride: Luoghi della memoria e dell'oblio,
anno. VIII, n. 14, April, pp. 59-78.
- Review of Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error,
Times Literary Supplement, August 25, pp. 3-4.
- "Evolution as Algorithm--the Ultimate
Insult?" in The Mind, the Brain and Complex Adaptive Systems,
ed, Harold Morowitz and Jerome Singer, Santa Fe Inst. Studies in the Sciences
of Complexity, Proceedings Vol. XXII, 1995, Addison-Wesley, pp. 221-223.
- "Animal Consciousness: What Matters
and Why," in Social Research, vol. 62, no. 3, Fall 1995, pp.
691-710.
- "Seeing is Believing--or is it?"
for Perception, Akins ed., Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science,
vol 5: Oxford University Press, pp. 158-72.
- "Overworking the Hippocampus," commentary
on Jeffrey Gray, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 18, no. 4,
1995, pp. 677-78.
- "The Path not Taken," commentary
on Ned Block, "On Confusion About a Function of Consciousness,"
in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 252-53.
- "Do Animals have Beliefs?" in Herbert
Roitblat& Jean-Arcady Meyer, eds., Comparative Approaches to Cognitive
Sciences, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 111-118.
- "How to Make Mistakes," in How
Things Are, J. Brockman and K. Matson, eds., William Morrow and Company,
New York, 1995. pp. 137-144.
- "The Unimagined Preposterousness of
Zombies," commentary on T. Moody, O. Flanagan and T. Polger, Journal
of Consciousness Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, 1995, pp. 322-326.
1996
- review of The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive
Archeology, edited by Colin Renfrew and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Cambridge University
Press,1994, 191pp + index.
- "Granny versus Mother Nature--No Contest,"
Response to Fodor (on DDI) for MIND AND LANGUAGE
- "Quantum incoherence," review of
A. G. Cairns-Smith, Evolving the Mind: on the nature of matter and the
origin of consciousness, Nature, vol. 381, 6 June 1996, pp. 486-6.
- "Facing Backwards on the Problem of
Consciousness," commentary on Chalmers for Journal of Consciousness
Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 (special issue, part 2), 1996, pp. 4-6.
- "Producing Future by Telling Stories,"
fromThe Robot's Dilemma Revisited..., Ford, Pylyshyn, eds., Ablex
- "Consciousness: More like Fame than
Television," (in German trans.) Die Technik auf dem Weg zur Seele
Christa Maar, Ernst Pöppel, and Thomas Christaller, eds. (Rowohlt,
1996).
- Review of Hofstadter & F.A.R.G, Fluid
Concepts And Creative Analogies, Complexity Journal, Santa Fe
Institute, vol. 1, no. 6, 1995/96, pp. 9-12.
- Review of Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994
by Thomas Nagel, OUP, 1995 in Journal of Philosophy, vol. XCIII,
no. 8, Aug 1996, pp. 425-28..
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