Daniel C. Dennett, the author of *Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995)*, is a university professor and Austin B ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

"I'm mediocre in a lot of things," Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Daniel Dennett said. "I'm mediocre in playing the piano and doing pottery. My profession - it's the one thing I'm really ...

Tufts University called him a major intellectual figure globally with his research on the philosophy of mind, science and particularly on evolutionary biology. He was one of the most widely read and ...

Daniel Dennett was certainly a giant, and his positive works deserve praise. However, he was horribly off the mark on trans rights. And when someone is praising a person in relation to how they want ...