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| | Dan Dennett |
 | | Dennett is perhaps most famous in philosophical circles for his approach to the problem of intentionality. | | | A noticeable aspect of Dennett’s work is his desire to make serious philosophy accessible to the general reader in many of his books. | | | This is in some ways related to his distinctive use of examples, metaphors and what he calls ‘intuition pumps’ which are analogies designed to prime the reader’s intuitions in such as way as to make his arguments vivid and plausible. |
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http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cafe/phil_apr2003.htm
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| | Boston Review:Orr Reviews "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel Dennett |
| | Dennett explains that a "vivid way of posing the question is to imagine becoming an artificial selector of altruistic people" (his emphasis). | | | Halfway through his book, Dennett confides that the "prospects for elaborating a rigorous science of memetics are doubtful." But he assures us that, "[w]hether or not the meme perspective can be turned into science, in its philosophical guise it has already done more good than harm." I confess that I am astonished by this move. | | | Now Dennett is an able philosopher and this argument is surely not news to him. |
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http://www.bostonreview.net/br21.3/Orr.html#1
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| | Roger William Gilman - Review of Daniel Dennett's Freedom Evolves -- Logos: Spring 2004 |
| | Dennett says that he has “finally come to realize that many people like their confusion” about his issue. | | | Professional scientists and philosophers regard his summaries and juxtapositions of their work accurate enough but usually irrelevant in a deep sense to the issue at hand. | | | In his earlier books Dennett has come off as an evangelical scientist who is out to slay superstitious fools by “spreading the acid of Darwinian thought” everywhere. |
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http://www.logosjournal.com/gilman.htm
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| | Kenan Malik's review of 'Freedom Evolves' by Daniel Dennett |
| | For an extended discussion of Daniel Dennett's work see Man, Beast and Zombie, especially chapters 11, 12 and 13. | | | The philosopher Daniel Dennett has long been a champion of the materialist view. | | | There is an unwitting thread that links Dennett's argument to that of critics such as Tom Wolfe or Francis Fukuyama. |
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http://www.kenanmalik.com/reviews/dennett_freedom.html
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| | Daniel Dennett's Dangerous Idea(The New Criterion): Johnson, Phillip |
| | Dennett takes the scientific part of his thesis from the inner circle of contemporary Darwinian theorists: William Hamilton, John Maynard Smith, George C. Williams, and the brilliant popularizer Richard Dawkins. | | | Eldredge in particular is so determined to wash away the taint of heresy that he has taken to describing himself as a "knee-jerk neo-Darwinian," a label that seems both to protest too much and to imply a willingness to overlook disconfirming evidence. | | | Darwin did not set out to overturn the mind-first picture of reality, but to do something much more modest: to explain the origin of biological species, and the wonderful adaptations that enable those species to survive and reproduce in diverse ways. |
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http://www.arn.org/docs/johnson/dennett.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Freedom Evolves: Books |
| | Daniel Dennett is not a man to shy from grand philosophical pronouncements. | | | It arrives so unannounced, and is so totally at odds with the very spirit and sense of everything else in Daniel Dennett's Darwin-influenced meta-theory, I just can't see what on earth possessed him to write it. | | | There will be readers who will skip to Chapter 7, yet those are the people who will pause at its title: "The Evolution of Moral Agency." Dennett's wedges are aimed at such, and it's to be hoped they will read carefully, as we all should. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140283897
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| | The New York Review of Books: Genes, Memes, & Minds |
| | Dennett's last topic is the evolution of morality. | | | Although modestly written, this is not a modest book. | | | Darwin himself wrote, "He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke." It is a remarkable fact that these words were written in a private notebook when Darwin was still seeking a theory of evolution. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1703
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| | Universal Acid? |
| | As the story of evolution is told by Dennett, the issue of a God with a hand in creation does appear to be lost to whatever kind of acid Darwin's story proves to be. | | | With a certain way of looking at the story of evolution, such as the one Dennett presents in Darwin's Dangerous Idea, much of traditional religion is lost, including our claim to being made in God's image and gifted with God's laws to govern our actions. | | | He makes a good case for the importance of the story of evolution and he makes the belief in God as well as in evolution a very uncomfortable position to defend. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/evolit/s05/web2/ecarey.html
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| | Breaking the Spell - Daniel C. Dennett |
| | As you knew he would, Dennett opts for breaking the spell -- though one wonders how many come to the book thinking that's a bad idea and are won over by his explanation for why he goes and does it. | | | Breaking the Spell is fairly well-presented, the chapters slowly building up Dennett's arguments (with a brief summing-up at the end of each chapter, along with a short preview of the next step). | | | Among them is the one that gives the book its title, the looking behind the scenes and taking apart the magician's tricks to understand how they are done that arguably spoils all the fun. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/religion/dennettd.htm
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| | Dennett on Animal Consciousness |
| | Once again, I plead for symmetry: when you acknowledge the power of such elegant, lifelike motions to charm you into an illusion, note that it ought to be an open question, still, whether you are also being charmed by your beloved dog or cat or the noble elephant. | | | Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained (Boston: Little Brown, 1991). | | | Block, Ned, "Review of Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained," Journal of Philosophy, 90 (1993): 181-93. |
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http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/dennett_anim_csness.html
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| | Robert Wright, author of 'NonZero,' wrestles with philosopher Daniel Dennett and wins a point about the purpose of ... |
| | If you're going to believe, as that Anglican clergyman suggested, that a divine being set natural selection in motion, confident that it would eventually produce some species as intelligent as humans, then you have to believe that natural selection was likely to produce such intelligence from the beginning—that it was in this sense "directional". | | | More recently, in a New York Times op-ed piece, he urged his fellow non-believers to unite and fight for their rights, depicting belief in God as contrary to a "naturalist" worldview. | | | The evolution of creatures as smart as us was a fluke, Gould said, and its very unlikelihood was evidence that evolution had no purpose. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/153/story_15340_1.html
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| | THOUGHTS AS TOOLS: THE MEME IN DANIEL DENNETT'S WORK |
| | There is, for instance, what he himself admits to be a "shocking view", that we must apply the intentional stance to evolution in order to understand it; in other words, we need a personified Mother Nature. | | | There is much that the memeticist can better understand from a familiarity with Dennett's work. | | | In a sense, the real sin of greedy reductionism is against what Dahlbom calls "Dennett's very modern, very American, belief in hard work" [2]. |
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/MemePap/Mason.html
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| | Book review of Daniel Dennett |
| | Dennett speculates that this "distributed wisdom" was not enough: a brain can supplement the crudeness, the slowness, the narrowness of the organs. | | | Wisdom is not only in the brain, wisdom is embodied as well in the rest of the body. | | | The book is about intentionality, about different levels of intentionality and the corresponding different kinds of minds. |
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http://www.thymos.com/mind/dennett.html
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| | Edge 166 |
| | "The fundamental scientific idea of evolution by natural selection," Dennett writes, "is not just mind-boggling; natural selection, by executing God's traditional task of designing and creating all creatures great and small, also seems to deny one of the best reasons we have for believing in God. | | | To date, scientists have held back with regard to engaging the proponents of "intelligent design" on the battlefield of scientific discourse, reasoning being that by simply having a discussion, the ID crowd gains a respectable platform for their views. | | | Since there is no content, there is no "controversy'' to teach about in biology class. |
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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge166.html
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| | Intelligent Design |
| | Dennett thinks we have the duty of teaching our best confirmed, best known theories in high school, which means teaching evolution and not ID. | | | Dennett thinks it is a mistake to think that evolution proceeds solely by selection. | | | John points out that Hume discussed the argument from design in his Dialogues on Natural Religion. |
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http://www.philosophytalk.org/IntelligentDesign.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life: Books: Daniel C. Dennett |
| | The power of the written word, the forceful current of a persuasive argument, and the care with which confirming evidence is presented and refuting evidence suppressed or camouflaged, all make it difficult to see the flaws in some of the popular works on evolution--or any other science. | | | evolution (2), philosophy (2), 2006 (1), dennett (1), eugenics (1), evolutionary theory (1), good read (1), philosophy of mind (1), philosophy of religion (1), science history (1) | | | Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068482471X?v=glance
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| | Douglas Dennett |
| | He is the author of many remarkably entertaining books primarily on philosophy of the mind, but all the books take on a very wide scope. | | | The Views of Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett on Determinism and Free Will - an internet discussion. | | | Boston Book Review Interview with Daniel Dennett: How Skyhooks Hoist Only Their Own |
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http://www.fermigas.com/DanielDennett.html
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| | I tried and tried to think myself into the vat, but to no avail. | | | Would I be the Yorick-brained one, in virtue of Yorick's causal priority and former intimate relationship with the original Dennett body, Hamlet? | | | If it is true that in one sense I don't know who I am then that's another one of your philosophical truths of underwhelming significance.) |
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http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/where_am_i.html
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| | Daniel Dennett's theory of consciousness - the intentional stance and multiple drafts. |
| | This is a strong argument against Dennett's computation-friendly views: yet the best philosophical exposition of the problem is actually by Dennett himself. | | | Qualia are the really interesting, essential part of consciousness: the bit that really matters. | | | Dennett says we'll be alright if we stick to the third-person point of view (talking about how other people's minds work, rather than talking about our own); but it's our own, first-person sensations and experiences that hold the real mystery, and it's a shame that Dennett should deny himself the challenge of working on them. |
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http://www.consciousentities.com/dennett.htm
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| | Daniel Dennett |
| | Daniel Dennett is the author of several popular and academic books. | | | Dennett's latest book, Breaking the Spell, is a call for the scientific analysis of religion. | | | Breaking the Spell : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett |
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http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Daniel_Dennett
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| | Daniel Dennett |
| | According to Dennett, Darwin& theory implies that the various processes of natural selection, although basically irrational, are powerful enough to have made manifest the whole planning work in our world. | | | We may be mistaken either about the extent to which we persons are all basically alike or about the reliability of introspection (instead of merely observing internal phenomena, we might be theorizing about them). | | | Dennett, D. and Horstadter, D. The Mind& I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. |
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http://www.vusst.hr/ENCYCLOPAEDIA/Daniel-English.htm
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| | Consciousness Explained - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dennett, Daniel (1991), Consciousness Explained, The Penguin Press, ISBN 0-713-99037-6 (UK Hardcover edition, 1992) | | | Dennett and his supporters, however, respond that the aforementioned "subjective aspect" as commonly used is non-existent, and that his "re-definition" is the only coherent description of consciousness. | | | Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which attempts to explain how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
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| | PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Life's Really Big Questions:Dennett |
| | DENNETT: And how do we know the chair you're sitting in isn't thinking, "well, gee, I'm just a chair." At some point, we say, this is just a silly hypothesis. | | | DENNETT: I think that the idea that philosophy and science are so distinct is a fairly recent idea in the last 150 years or so. | | | DENNETT: The first problem that really grabbed me was the question of how on Earth a brain can learn. |
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http://www.pbs.org/saf/1103/features/dennett.htm
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| | Stage Effects in the Cartesian Theater: A review of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained |
| | As I have made clear, there is much in this book that is disputable. | | | And Dennett is at times aggravatingly smug and confident about the merits of his arguments (comparing his `revelations' about consciousness to a magician's revealing the operation of stage tricks, for example; p. | | | 406) is an assertion Dennett is actually brought to make in his attempt to maximally provoke his readers; his title serves a similarly provocative role. |
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http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v1/psyche-1-04-korb.html
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| | Daniel Dennett "'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange," 1997 |
| | I will not respond further to Gould's charges, trusting that readers will take him up on his challenge: "If you think I am being simplistic or unfair to Dennett in this characterization, read his book...." Do, please; see for yourself; that's the scientific way. | | | I noted that many evolutionary biologists consider Gould's writings a serious impediment to popular understanding of Darwinian thought. | | | [ Daniel C. Dennett, "'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange," Letter to the Editors, The New York Review of Books, August 14, 1997, pp. |
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http://www.stephenjaygould.org/reviews/dennett_exchange.html
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| | publications by Daniel Dennett and other Center Associates |
| | "La Compréhension Artisanale," (French translation of "Do-It-Yourself Understanding") in Fisette ed., Daniel C. Dennett et les Stratégies Intentionnelles, Lekton, 11, Winter. | | | Reprinted in Daniel Kolak and R. Martin, eds., Self and Identity: Contemporary Philosophical Issues, Macmillan, 1991. | | | A response to an article, "The Deniable Darwin," by David Berlinski in Commentary, written by Dennett in "Letters from Readers," Commentary, September, 1996. |
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http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm
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| | Supernatural selection - The Boston Globe |
| | Dennett himself is not a researcher, nor is his book a sustained argument for any one theory. | | | Dennett opens his book by comparing religion to a parasite. | | | Dennett's new book is concerned primarily with this more recent work, in which a new generation of researchers have begun to suggest that religion may be neither a matter of revealed truth nor willed ignorance, but something a bit more complicated. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/29/supernatural_selection/?page=full
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| | The Believer - Interview with Daniel Dennett |
| | Miraculous creationism can account for unexplained scientific phenomena | | | Dennett is the author of several books, including Darwin& Dangerous Idea and Freedom Evolves, and is the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. | | | Evolutionary theory, consciousness, religion, artificial intelligence, free will, the future of human morality—each of these subjects and more have been subjected to Dennett’s scrutiny. |
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http://www.believermag.com/issues/200403?read=interview_dennett
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| | Selected articles about DANIEL C. DENNETT |
| | Stich, Stephen P. "Could Man be an Irrational Animal? | | | "La explicacion de la mente: a proposito de un libro de Daniel Dennett." | | | "`L'infallibilité' de l'introspection: Autour de Dennett et de Wittgenstein." |
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http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/philosophy/dennett/works_about.html
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| | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - dualism |
| | Dennett (1981) suggests the following general rule as a starting point: "attribute as beliefs all the truths relevant to the system’s interests (or desires) that the system’s experience to date has made available." (3) Using similar considerations, determine what desires X ought to have. | | | According to Daniel Dennett, there are three different strategies that we might use when confronted with objects or systems: the physical stance, the design stance, and the intentional stance. | | | But Dennett, who rejects the usual either-or dichotomy of realism and instrumentalism, prefers to classify his view as an in between position that he calls interpretationism. |
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http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/intentionalstance.html
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| | Philosophers : Daniel Dennett |
| | Through this sandardizing process, we are able to begin to make a picture of the phenomenology of the mind. | | | This machine keeps a linear track of thought (our memories and the ineffable quality to them) that defines who we are. | | | His major work, Consciousness Explained, posits a theory that consciousness is an abstraction built from a linear narrative of one's life, based on a functionalist view of cognitive science. |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/dennett.html
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| | Edge: DANIEL C. DENNETT |
| | "Dennett's concept of relational order in relation to the brain is something I find extremely interesting. | | | The philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT is perhaps best known in cognitive science for his concept of intentional systems, and his multiple drafts (or “fame in the brain”) model of human consciousness, which sketches a computational architecture for realizing the stream of consciousness (the “Joycean machine”) in the massively parallel cerebral cortex. | | | Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. |
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dennett.html
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| | Dennett, Daniel Clement - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dennett, Daniel Clement |
| | After graduating from Oxford and teaching at the University of California, he became a professor at Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, specializing in social sciences and philosophy of mind. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Dennett,+Daniel+Clement
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| | MeaningofLife.tv |
| | Death Direction in history Evolution of religion Religion in a global age What is God? | | | We went to the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona and asked people from all major religions. | | | Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. |
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http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=dennett&topic=complete
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Decision-Deontology |
| | Also see Daniel Dennett, ELC, DPM, and BIO. | | | Truth-table analysis demonstrates the reliability of these logical relationships, as does a set-theoretical proof. | | | Dennett's careful application of neuroscientific research to the philosophy of mind is characterized by the frequent use of ingenious thought-experiments. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/d2.htm
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| | DANIEL C. DENNETT: A BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| | Selected Works on Daniel C. Dennett and His Works (Arranged Alphabetically by Author's Surname) | | | Special Issue of Journals Devoted to Daniel C. Dennett |
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http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/philosophy/dennett
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| | Salon.com Books Dissecting God |
| | Philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that America is drowning in religion -- and that faith needs to be analyzed with the tools of science. | | | I'm proposing we break the spell that creates an invisible moat around religion, the one that says, "Science stay away. | | | Watch a brief ad and read all Salon articles now: |
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http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/02/08/dennett
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| | Show Me the Science - New York Times |
| | Daniel C. Dennett, a professor of philosophy at Tufts University, is the author of "Freedom Evolves" and "Darwin's Dangerous Idea." | | | How on earth, they ask, could that engineering marvel be produced by a series of small, unplanned steps? |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/28dennett.html?ex=1282881600&en=5e66afa05b9ed96b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | Daniel C. Dennett's Home Page |
| | He lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and a grandson. | | | I do not know who made Tati, or why, and would be pleased to receive any substantiated information about its provenance. | | | Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon andSchuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. |
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http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm
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| | Daniel C. Dennett |
| | Daniel C. Dennett is distinguished arts and sciences professor, professor of philosophy, and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. | | | A graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University, he has taught at the University of California at Irvine, University of Pittsburgh, Oxford University, and the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris. |
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/chap16/author.html
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| | Butterflies and Wheels Article |
| | Daniel Dennett's most recent book, Freedom Evolves, has just been published by Viking Press. | | | This is the final draft of a paper given at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy. | | | Click here if you wish to comment on this article |
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http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=13
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