A lively and incisive collection of papers. Dennett offers us a comprehensive theory of mind, set forth in seventeen essays, united by an extensive introduction.

An important book for cognitive psychologists, neurophysiologists, computer scientists, those interested in linguistics and in artificial intelligence, and epistemological philosophers.

This new synthesis, by the author of Content and Consciousness, should be of seminal interest to theoreticians in many contiguous fields. It should appeal strongly to non-specialists. And it should become standard student fare for courses in philosophy of mind and in theoretical issues in psychology.

"The problems that Daniel Dennett addresses in his essays are crucial ones for philosophy and contemporary science. With a sure touch and a great deal of insight, he has subjected to analysis questions that lie at, or perhaps just beyond, the frontiers of the scientific study of mind and brain . . ."
Noam Chomsky

"There is a new coherent field in which cognitive psychologists, neurophysiologists, computer scientists in artificial intelligence, and epistemological philosophers collaborate as equals . . . Dennett is one of the leading philosophers forming this new area . . . Cognitive psychologists interested in integrating their theories with neurophysiology and behavior, and brain scientists curious about conscious experience, will find this book exciting and relevant . . . I enthusiastically recommend Brainstorms to all of us verging on and into this exciting new field!"
Donald T. Campbell

" . . . Dennett is capable of integrating psychological information and philosophical discussion in an extremely exciting way. I think that his work in the philosophy of mind is of very great importance."
Hilary Putnam

"Dennett's studies in the philosophy of psychology are gems of conceptual analysis. His expert knowledge of the many disciplines which deal in one way or an other with the nature and behavior of intentional systems gives what he has to say a substantive content which distinguishes his dialectic from the usual ballet of shadows . . ."
Wilfrid Sellars

"The essays in this volume comprise what is perhaps the most important single, sustained contribution by a philosopher to the current inter-disciplinary conversation about the nature and methodology of the 'cognitive sciences' . . . Informed discussion of explanation in linguistics, cognitive psychology and AI starts here."
Jerry Fodor