Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. (via Wikipedia)


About Daniel Dennett


Region: Western Philosophy

Name: Dennett, Daniel
Daniel Clement Dennett
Dennett, Dan

Influenced: Richard Dawkins Douglas Hofstadter Geoffrey Miller

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts

Period: 20th / 21st-century philosophy

School/Tradition: Analytic philosophy

Known for: Greedy reductionism
Multiple Drafts Model
Intentional stance
Heterophenomenology
Intuition pump

Birth Date: Mar 28, 1942

Influenced By: Gilbert Ryle W.V.O. Quine
L. Wittgenstein Charles Darwin David Hume Alan Turing Richard Dawkins

University Attended: Harvard University


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