Becoming A Philosopher | Daniel Dennett
Philosophy For Our Times
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Did You Have a Sense of the Origins of That Thesis?
A as early as your ph d. Thesis, it's a time of swirling ideas and this huge need to par away at all the things you're nterested in until you find something small enough to hope to fit into three or five years and a thesis. But did you have a sense of the origins of this thinking or jis, did it seem obviously right to you from the beginning? Ah, part of it seemed obviously right, and then for years, a lot of it seemed ly wrong, and it was very scary. No, i remember vividly, i was sitting on the floor in our flat in oxford, anda friend of mine was sketching what a
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