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4 days ago · For the opposing team, such as the late, great philosopher Daniel Dennett, ... This may tempt us to think Dennett was right after all, and the whole “hard problem” setup is a chimera.
3 days ago · No wonder science writer John Horgan thinks that Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942–2024) might be the end of an era, an era characterized by an insistence that the human mind is an illusion — and also by, in Horgan’s words, “ultra-materialist, ultra-Darwinian, swaggering, know-it-all scientism.”
4 days ago · Dennett’s cross-disciplinary approach – encompassing neuroscience, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence – has been widely acclaimed and helped redefine the role of the philosopher for our age. In this exclusive event, Dennett explored the major themes of his forthcoming book, 'From Bacteria to Bach and Back', including how our ...
4 hours ago · For example, Daniel Dennett has argued that many "interesting or theoretically important" features of bat consciousness could potentially be accessible through careful scientific investigation. However, critics contend that such approaches still fail to capture the intrinsic, subjective quality of what it "is" to be a bat.
1 day ago · See Marya Schechtman, The Constitution of Selves (Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2018); Daniel Dennett, “Why everyone is a novelist,” Times Literary Supplement, 1988: 16–22 and “The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity” in Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives, ed. Frank S. Kessel, Pamela M. Cole, Dale L. Johnson ...
4 days ago · Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action. [1] Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, culpability, and other judgements which apply only to actions that are freely chosen. It is also connected with the concepts of advice, persuasion, deliberation, and ...
3 days ago · Philosopher Daniel Dennett counters: Consciousness requires a certain kind of informational organization that does not seem to be 'hard-wired' in humans, but is instilled by human culture. Moreover, consciousness is not a black-or-white, all-or-nothing type of phenomenon, as is often assumed.
