Few forces in the world are as potent as religion: it comforts people in their suffering and inspires them to both magnificent and terrible deeds. This book seeks to uncover the origins of religion and discusses how and why different faiths have shaped so many lives, whether religion is an addiction or a genuine human need.

Assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. This book shows that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life.

Revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that tautology and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence.

Shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

Addresses the issue of what the concept of 'human dignity' entails and its proper role in bioethical controversies.

Lets us re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. This book features a classic example of philosophy.

Mathematicians throughout history have created shapes, forms, and relationships, and some of these can be expressed visually. This book discusses topics such as aesthetics for computers, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, cubism and relativity in twentieth-century art, the aesthetic value of optimal geometry, and mathematics and cinema.

Presents fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method, cognitive-neuroscientific explanation, and human nature. This book discusses the clash of philosophers and neuroscientists over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. It is useful for those interested in the relation of mind to brain.

Offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. This book traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. It also identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness.

Presents an examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience - pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain - and what they reveal about the complex nature of pain and its sensory, cognitive, and behavioral components.

In this pioneering book, Daniel Dennett sets out clearly what he believed constituted a genuine analysis of the mind.

From some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, this work contains essays on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness.

First published in 1969, 'Content and Consciousness' is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem which is integral to the history of Western philosophical thought - that is: the relationship of the mind and body.

Dennett's classic introduction to the philosophy of mind.

Blending ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, this discussion explores such questions as: Can we really know what is going on in someone else's mind? Could a robot be conscious? If a being has the ability to think, does it therefore have moral significance?