Content and Consciousness

Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body.In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science.This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed.It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind.