From Real Patterns to Prospective Quacks:

In his new collection Dan Dennett looks over a broad range of themes, from philosophy of mind to artificial life and from ethology to animal psychology. All the essays were written in the past twelve years and have already been published in conference volumes or in specialized journals. The purpose of the collection is, as the author says, to group such essays "for the convenience of students and other readers who do not have ready access to a major university library." The book is divided into four parts. The first is devoted to philosophy of mind, the second to artificial intelligence and artificial life and the third to issues related to ethology and animal mind. There is also a final part, which