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     • Dennett is widely regarded as a proponent of materialism in the philosophy of mind. He argues that mental states, including consciousness, are entirely the result of physical processes in the brain.
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   What is Dennett's view of Philosophy?

   • A distinctive view of the role of philosophy follows from all this. Dennett thought the philosopher’s job was to be a kind of under-labourer to the natural sciences, to offer “conceptual clarifications and underpinnings for theories that are testable, empirical, scientific”.

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   Was Dennett a good philosopher?

   • “Dan Dennett was a great philosopher,” Dawkins wrote, “but unlike many clever philosophers . . . he had something to be clever ABOUT, namely science.” The implication is that most philosophy is an arid, self-enclosed activity with a fatal tendency, as Dennett himself put it, to “degenerate into high-concept pissing contests”.

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   Who was Daniel Dennett?

   • Cognitive scientist who boldly explored free will, the human mind and AI, and rejected the existence of God. Daniel Dennett, who has died aged 82, was the type of philosopher you couldn’t help but read. His work, directly relevant to biologists, physicists, computer scientists and cognitive psychologists, enticed all curious readers.

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   What were Dennett's debates with other philosophers and scientists?

   • Some of Dennett’s debates with fellow philosophers and scientists became famous, such as that with Sam Harris about free will. Dennett argued that people have free will because of their ability to deliberate, reason and even reason about reasoning; abilities that Dennett argued developed through evolution.

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   Does Dennett believe in science?

   • Dennett, an outspoken atheist, fears that creationism and other superstitious nonsense will persist as long as mysteries do. He thus insists that science can untangle even the knottiest conundrums, including the origin of life (which he asserts that recent “breakthroughs” are helping to solve) and consciousness.

   An Epitaph for Daniel Dennett, Philosopher of Consciousness

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   How did Dennett explain consciousness?

   • Dennett has walked that path before. In “Consciousness Explained,” a 1991 best-seller, he described consciousness as something like the product of multiple, layered computer programs running on the hardware of the brain. Many readers felt that he had shown how the brain creates the soul. Others thought that he’d missed the point entirely.

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   Daniel Dennett. Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

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   May 17, 2024 · Daniel Dennett, who has died aged 82, was the type of philosopher you couldn’t help but read. His work, directly relevant to biologists, physicists, computer scientists and cognitive...

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   Apr 25, 2024 · Dennett thought the philosopher’s job was to be a kind of under-labourer to the natural sciences, to offer “conceptual clarifications and underpinnings for theories that are testable, empirical,...

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7. philosophynow.org › issues › 161I’ve Been Thinking by Daniel Dennett - Philosophy Now

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   Dennett’s answer in the DPhil thesis he finished in 1965 became his first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), and the foundation of his entire subsequent philosophy. His strategy was to apply the ‘reverse motion’ technique of playing a film backwards to evolutionary history.

8. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2017/03/27Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul - The New Yorker

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   Mar 20, 2017 · Dennett studied philosophy as an undergraduate with W. V. O. Quine, the Harvard logician. His scientific awakening came later, when he was a graduate student at Oxford.

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9. academic.oup.com › book › 25912The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett | Oxford Academic

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   Feb 15, 2018 · He has addressed questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the possibility of freedom, and the significance of evolution to addressing questions across the cognitive, biological, and social sciences.

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    Apr 23, 2024 · Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett (1942–2024)