"Philosophers can seldom put their knowledge to practical use," Mr. Dennett said, squinting under the brim of a baseball hat reading "Freedom Evolves," a play on the title of his 2003 book on free will.
Books: 1969 Content and Consciousness; '78 Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology; '81 The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, co-edited with Douglas Hofstadter; '84 Elbow Room; '87 The Intentional Stance; '91 Consciousness Explained; '95 Darwin's Dangerous Idea; '96 Kinds of Minds; '98 Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; 2003 Freedom Evolves.
Fodor, for example, has dismissed Dennett's latest book, Freedom Evolves (2003), as an example of "bait and switch" tactics, advertising one thing and selling something else: "Thus we might imagine Bishop Berkeley, 'But my dear Dr Johnson, of course stones are real.
I deeply enjoyed his newest book, "From Bacteria to Bach and Back," but two of his earlier volumes struck me with particular force: the accessible and elegant "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," from 1995, and the more academic "Freedom Evolves," from 2003.
The new book, largely adapted from previous writings, is also a lively primer on the radical answers Mr. Dennett has elaborated to the big questions in his nearly five decades in philosophy, delivered to a popular audience in books like "Consciousness Explained" (1991), "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995) and "Freedom Evolves".
Which, if one considers the way freedom evolved in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, will probably not bode well for American influence and -- note to liberals -- to liberal-democratic values?
The Civil War also was one in which socioeconomic factors divided the nation, and whose outcome had clear moral and ethical context as slavery was abolished when our understanding of freedom evolved to extend to all men regardless of race.
This basically shows that although these genes have more freedom to evolve through mutations, which only affects protein properties, they are less free to evolve through duplication, which will affect the actual gene regulation.
The band, he tells me, wantto have the freedom to evolve as they make a third album, a fourth.
A city like London needs to have the freedom to evolve and develop dynamically in a way that is appropriate for its own needs.
