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Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett was a philosopher and cognitive scientist known for work on consciousness, evolution, and thinking tools.

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Daniel Dennett is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

Dennett supports Knowledge Flow by offering tools for examining ideas and assumptions.

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Work by Daniel Dennett

Book

Intuition Pumps

and Other Tools for Thinking

Thinking can be improved through tools that make ideas easier to examine. Intuition Pumps collects thought experiments and reasoning practices that help people test assumptions and sharpen understanding.

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