<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Daniel Dennett · Pablo Stafforini</title><link>https://stafforini.com/tags/daniel-dennett/</link><description/><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://stafforini.com/tags/daniel-dennett/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>conservatism</title><link>https://stafforini.com/quotes/dennett-conservatism/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stafforini.com/quotes/dennett-conservatism/</guid><description>&lt;![CDATA[<blockquote><p>In most sciences, there are few things more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows something surprising and forces us to reconsider our often tacit assumptions. In philosophy of mind a counterintuitive ‘result’ (for example, a mind-boggling implication of somebody’s ‘theory’ of perception, memory, consciousness or whatever) is typically taken as tantamount to a refutation. This affection for one’s current intuitions […] installs deep conservatism in the methods of philosophers.</p></blockquote>
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