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Review title: An Instinct for the Capillary
Product review: If you want to know why academics are considered such boors, read this book. It is a textbook of minutia, pettiness, and strawmen. Just as professors often indulge themselves in class, at the students' expense, by attacking adversaries unfairly, Dennett wastes 500+ pages on petty disputes with real (and, I suspect) imagined enemies. Starting with an important premise, he runs it into the ground and fails to deliver any comprehensible summary of the broad significance of Darwin's ideas. Aspects that should have been mentioned in a paragraph are made into long, haranguing chapters. The disputes are so-o-o-o boring. Dennett may be a great guy and a brilliant mind; if so, he did himself a major disservice in writing this book. If there is any justice, he will perish by publishing.This book badly needed an editor. If it had one, it would have been 300 pages shorter. Save your reading time for something that will enrich your life, not this pedantric mess.
