Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

这不是一本教你思考的教科书，而是一位哲学老将五十年战场经验的缴械清单。作者丹尼特把自己在进化论、意识、自由意志这些最凶险议题上反复验证过的思维工具，一件件掏出来摆在你面前：如何给对手一个「直觉泵」让他自己把自己绕进去，如何用拉波波特法则逼自己先听懂对方再说反驳，为什么冯·诺依曼式的「啊哈」捷径有时比死磕无穷级数更诚实。它真正稀缺的地方，不是答案，而是那种敢于主动犯错、把含混不清当作起点的习惯。不过诚实的读者会指出：集五十年之大成，难免浮光略影，夹带私货偏多，它更像一份值得反复回味的工具目录，而非系统训练。适合那些已被哲学命题折磨、却不愿被术语劝退的人。

Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate of the Brights movement. Dennett received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W.V.O. Quine. In 1965, he received his D.Phil. from Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied under the ordinary language philosopher Gilbert Ryle. Dennett gave the John Locke lectures at the University of Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. In 2001 he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize, giving the Jean Nicod Lectures in Paris. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He was the co-founder (1985) and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts University, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.