Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only aunified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they cameinto existence and how they work. One of the foremost workers in thismultidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays onthe philosphy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appearedin inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996. Highlights include "Can MachinesThink?," "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies," "Artificial Life asPhilosophy," and "Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why." Collected in a singlevolume, the essays are now available to a wider audience.