On the door of his office at Tufts University, philosophy professor Daniel Dennett displays a banner quoting the late American writer Gore Vidal. It reads, "It is not enough to succeed; others must ...

Philosopher and author Daniel C. Dennett, whose bestselling and often controversial books explored religion, morality, consciousness, and evolutionary biology, among other topics, died at Maine ...

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 ...

Daniel C. Dennett, University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, photographed in his office at Tufts.

Dan Dennett died on April 19 of this year. He was a great philosopher, as many know, and a very good man, as fewer will know. Three decades ago, a few years after his 1991 Consciousness Explained book ...

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 ...

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Daniel C. Dennett is an emeritus professor at Tufts University and one of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists of his generation. He's written several highly influential and ...

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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 ...