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{{Short description|1978 book by American philosopher Daniel Dennett}}
{{Other uses|Brainstorm (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
| image         = File:Brainstorms.jpg
| image_size    = 200px
| author        = [[Daniel C. Dennett]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| subjects      = [[Artificial intelligence]]<br>[[Consciousness]]
| published     = 1978 (Bradford Books<ref name="cummins-what-learned-1981">{{cite journal |last1=Cummins |first1=Robert |title=What Can Be Learned from ''Brainstorms''? |journal=Philosophical Topics |date=Spring 1981 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=83–92 |doi=10.5840/philtopics198112144 |jstor=43153846 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43153846|url-access=subscription }}</ref>)<br/>1981 (MIT Press)
| pages         =
| isbn          = 9780897060011
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| oclc =
}}
'''''Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology''''' is a 1978 book by American [[philosopher]] [[Daniel Dennett]]. The book is a collection of seventeen essays in which Dennett reflects on the early achievements of [[artificial intelligence]] to develop his ideas on [[consciousness]], [[theory of mind]], and [[free will]].

==Reception==
[[Douglas Hofstadter]], writing in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'', praised ''Brainstorms'', calling it "one of the most important contributions to thinking about thinking yet written".<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1980/05/29/who-am-i-anyway/| title= Who Am I Anyway?| author=Douglas Hofstadter| date= 29 May 1980| journal= New York Review of Books| volume= 27| issue= 9}}</ref> [[John Haugeland]] reviewed ''Brainstorms'' for the journal ''[[Philosophy of Science (journal)|Philosophy of Science]]'' where he called it "philosophically important and delightfully written", though he criticised Dennett's arguments about morality.<ref>{{cite journal|author= John Haugeland| journal= Philosophy of Science| title=Book Review: Brainstorms Daniel C. Dennett | doi=10.1086/288936| volume = 47|number = 2|pages = 326–327|year = 1980 }}</ref> [[Gilbert Harman]], writing in ''[[The Philosophical Review]]'', called ''Brainstorms'' "brilliant".<ref>{{cite journal | author = Gilbert Harman | journal = The Philosophical Review| date= January 1980|title= Reviewed Work: Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett| volume=89| number =1|pages=115–117|doi=10.2307/2184867 | jstor = 2184867| s2cid = 33311289}}</ref> Robert Cummins wrote in ''Philosophical Topics'' that ''Brainstorms'' is "important and good" and called it "the most entertaining bit of non-fiction I've read in a long while."<ref name="cummins-what-learned-1981"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262540371 ''Brainstorms'' – MIT CogNet]

==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20131104104919/http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/publications/philosophy/dennett/A10_brain.html Reviews of Daniel C. Dennett's ''Brainstorms'' (1978) – UCI Libraries]

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