Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring aw
ay at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest
tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the cou
rse in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies a
nd a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place i
n it. What can we do? In 'Intuition Pumps', Daniel Dennett, one of the world's m
ost original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and
highly entertaining philosophical journey.