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Daniel Dennett
Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
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Daniel Dennett Reveals His Favorite Philosopher
Daniel Dennett Reveals His Favorite Philosopher. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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When Daniel Dennett Changes His Mind
When Daniel Dennett Changes His Mind. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Discusses the Future of Rationality
Daniel Dennett on the future of the human brain. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Explores Darwinism and Outer Space
Daniel Dennett Explores Darwinism and Outer Space. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett on the Staggering Genius of Charles Darwin
Why Daniel Dennett applies Darwinism to everything. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Investigates Energy Innovation
Daniel Dennett Investigates Energy Innovation. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett on the complexities of the human brain. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Discusses the Problem of Robotic Warfare
Daniel Dennett Discusses the Problem of Robotic Warfare. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Explores the Problems of the Human Brain
Daniel Dennett Explores the Problems of the Human Brain. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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The Mechanics of Studying Consciousness
Daniel Dennett Reveals the Mechanics of Studying Consciousness. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Belief, Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Investigates Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Dennett with the argument against humanoid robots. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Daniel Dennett Explains Consciousness and Free Will
Daniel Dennett explains consciousness and free will. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Belief
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Daniel Dennett Discusses Secular Spirituality
Daniel Dennett on secular ecstasy. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Belief
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Daniel Dennett Explains His Book 'Breaking the Spell'
Daniel Dennett Explains His Book 'Breaking the Spell'. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Daniel Dennett Explores Secular Solace
Daniel Dennett Explores Secular Solace. Read More
March 9, 2009 | In Belief
Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell, Freedom Evolves, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea and is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and a grandson. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), and Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, was published in 2005. He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981 and he is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Dennett gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
He was the Co-founder (in 1985) and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.
