Content and Consciousness
Last updated October 31, 2026
Daniel Dennett's first book grew out of his doctoral work at Oxford. In it he sets out a theory of how mental states can be about things and how consciousness can fit within a physical account of the brain. The book introduced his distinction between personal and subpersonal levels of explanation, and it laid the foundations for ideas about meaning, evolution and awareness that he developed over the rest of his career.
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