New book of famous, professor of University Тафтса and author of prominent works on philosophy of consciousness of Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained, American philosopher Daniel Деннета (1942) is the inspired description a workshop and working instruments of thinker, that simultaneously is the family synthetic exposition of his philosophy. The special attention an author spares to the mental experiments that he names by the "pumps of intuition, to short histories "that is called to stimulate the sincere, felt deeply intuitional lighting up. Not limited to such well known instruments of thinking, as a razor of Оккама or reductio ad absurdum, an author offers the great number of own inventions such. His aim, as usual, consists of that, to teach us "in earnest and not without grace to reflect about very difficult things. Book being from the personal experience of philosopher is the real guide-book both on the universe of the human thinking and on philosophy of consciousness of Д. Деннета, and she will be interesting to not only the professional philosophers but also any man aspiring it is better to understand nature of own idea.