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 ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

World-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82. Stunned reactions to ...

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 ...

"I am not engaging in a lot of the disputation that is currently fashionable in academic departments of philosophy... I don't think it's worth my effort." In an exclusive interview with Prospect, ...

"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 ...

For Daniel Dennett, philosophers are like blacksmiths: they make their own tools as they go along. Unlike carpenters, who have to buy their drills and saws at Sears, blacksmiths can use their own ...

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 ...