'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone
interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warburton Times Literary Supplement 'One of
today's most readable intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers' Nature
'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?' Daniel C.
Dennett philosopher and cognitive scientist has spent his career considering consciousness.
I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we
too can become good thinkers. Dennett's restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in
Beirut to Harvard and from Parisian jazz clubs to 'tillosophy' on his tractor in Maine. Along
the way he encounters and debates with a host of legendary thinkers and reveals the
breakthroughs and misjudgments that shaped his paradigm-shifting philosophies. Thinking
Dennett argues is hard and risky. In fact all good philosophical thinking is inevitably
accompanied by bafflement frustration and self-doubt. It is only in getting it wrong that we
very occasionally find a way to get it right. This memoir by one of the greatest philosophers
of our time will speak to anyone who seeks a life of the mind with adventure and creativity.
