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Daniel Clement Dennett (born 1942) is an American philosopher, and a leading figure in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is presently ( 2003) employed as Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.Dennett's research centres on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. He is the author of several major books on evolution and consciousness. He is a leading proponent of the theory known by some as Neural Darwinism (see also greedy reductionism).
He is also well known for his argument against qualia, which claims that the concept is so confused that it cannot be put to any use or understood in any non-contradictory way, and therefore does not constitute a valid refutation of physicalism. This argument was presented most comprehensively in his book Consciousness ExplainedConsciousness 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. The book puts forward a " multiple drafts".
1 Selected works
- Content and Consciousness (Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd; 2nd ed edition January 1986) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- The Mind's IThe Mind's I: fantasies and reflections on the self and the soul Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett 1981 (BooksEnthsiast.com) This book is an invitation and a challenge to the reader to join in exploration of the human mind and soul. During the 1900 (Bantam, Reissue edition 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor, with Douglas HofstadterDouglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American academic. He is probably best known for his book Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid published in 1979, which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. This book, also) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- Elbow RoomElbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting ( 1984) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, which discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism. In 1983, Dennett delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford on the t: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (MIT Press 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe) - on free willFree will is the philosophical doctrine that our choices are, ultimately, "up to us. Consequently, an unfree action must be somehow "up to" something else. The phrase "up to us" is vague, and, just like free will itself, admits of a variety of interpretat and determinism (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- The Intentional Stance (MIT Press; Reprint edition 1989) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- Consciousness Explained (Back Bay Books 1992) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition 1996) BooksEnthsiast.com
- Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness (Basic Books 1997) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (Representation and Mind) (MIT Press 1998) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
- Freedom Evolves (Viking Press 2003) (BooksEnthsiast.com)
