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Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett

Human Centered

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What Was the Path That Led You to Philosophy?

As a student at Wesleyan he was taught by Louis Mink and read Descartes meditations. A young logician there thought he was a math prodigy because he had two years of calculus. He took a mathematical logic course from Henry Kyberg which was the strangest and most daunting introduction to logic any undergraduate's ever had. But that's where he discovered Klein late one night in the math library reading Klein's book from a logical point of view. And I spent all night reading the book and decided in the morning I transferred to Harvard so I could do battle with this Klein guy.

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