This is part 4 of a series. See part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. Daniel C. Dennett is an emeritus professor at Tufts University and one of the most influential philosophers and cognitive ...

The author attempts to analyze Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell as a discourse, challenging its clean-cut division into descriptive and evaluative parts, proposed by Dennett himself. Rather than ...

Daniel Dennett’s fertile imagination is captivated by the very dangerous idea that the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution should become the basis for what amounts to an established state ...

Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises to ...

"Fear arousal is not a good way of changing behaviour." ...

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 ...

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