In the movie “Diner,” there is a moment when a teen out for a drive stops to gaze at a beautiful woman galloping through the countryside on her stallion. He turns to his friend and says, “Do you ever ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Freedom Evolves, and most recently, Breaking the Spell, is interviewed by Dan Schneider over at Monsters & Critics. Wading through the ...

In his long career, philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett has made substantial contributions to — and stirred considerable controversy in — our thinking about human behavior and the very ...

Read an interview with Dennett here From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C Dennett (Allen Lane, £25) In the story of western modernity, science plays the role of both hero and villain—saviour and ...

One of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists, Daniel C. Dennett, passed away this week. He was one of the first contemporary philosophers to take naturalism really seriously, i.e.