Round 6: Tossup 15

This thinker redefined Miriam Weizenbaum’s idea of “deepity” as a statement that seems profound, but is actually trivial and meaningless. This thinker criticizes the concept of “Non-overlapping magisteria” and argues that religion should not be off limits from scientific inquiry in the book Breaking the Spell. This thinker coined the term “intentional stance” for a high degree of abstraction in mental (10[1])content. This thinker uses crane design as an allegory (10[1])in a book about the consequences of evolutionary theory. A book by this thinker introduced the “multiple drafts” model, which denies the existence of qualia and opposes the “Cartesian theater” model of the mind. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this atheist philosopher who wrote Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and (10[1])Consciousness Explained. (10[1]0[2])■END■

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