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Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director
Center
for Cognitive Studies
University Professor
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking
the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003)
and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995), is
University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy,
and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He
lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts,
and has a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren. He was born in Boston
in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in
philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford
to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision
he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from
1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside
from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, the
École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the London School of Economics and
the American University of Beirut.
His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in
1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The
Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's
Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), and Brainchildren:
A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998). Sweet
Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, was published in 2005 by MIT Press. He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas
Hofstadter in 1981. He is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles
on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial
Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics
Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in
1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia,
in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan
in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a
Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in
Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1987.
He was the Co-founder (in 1985) and Co-director of the Curricular
Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on
computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum
of Science in Boston, and
the Computer Museum
in Boston.
He spends most of his summers on his farm in Maine,
where he harvests blueberries, hay and timber, and makes Normandy
cider wine, when he is not sailing. He is also a sculptor.
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VIDEOS FROM DARWIN
YEAR:
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TED Conference, March 16
2009: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
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British Humanist
Association, March 19th, 2009
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Sakip Sabanci
Museum, organized by Sabancı University,
Istanbul, April 10, 2009
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Human Nature and Belief,
Darwin Fest, Cambridge University, UK, July 8th 2009
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Darwin's Legacy - Stanford
University, October 13th, 2009
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Darwin Conference at
Chicago, October 29th through 31st
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La Ciudad de las Ideas - Debate - Hitchens,
Harris, Dennett vs Boteach,
D'Souza, Taleb -
November, 2009
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La Ciudad de las Ideas – lecture – November, 2009
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CUNY Panel discussion -
Intelligent Design an Immoral Argument? - Daniel Dennett and John Haught, November 17th, 2009
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BIG THINK videos
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Into the Classroom Media
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MORE VIDEOS:
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“How Darwinian is Cultural Evolution?” Ecole Normale Supérieure,
Paris, Dec, 2013
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Interviewed by Marieke Drost for Dutch
Public Television, November 2012
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Interviewed by Hemant Mehta for his ‘Friendly Atheist Blog’
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Interview at Moscow Center
for Consciousness Studies, June 21, 2012
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“How to tell you’re an
atheist,” Melbourne Atheist Conference, April, 2012
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University of Melbourne, April 12th, 2012
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Taste of Tufts lecture April
20, 2012
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Dan Dennett speaks at
Creative Innovation 2011
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@ UCLA February 4th, 2011
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October 2, 2010 at the
Humanist Canada Convention, Montreal
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Closer to Truth: Cosmos.
Consciousness. God.
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YouTube - Daniel Dennett
lecture on "Free Will" (Edinburgh University)
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The Evolution of Confusion,
AAI, 2009
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Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior
- 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series (click here for reference list)
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Breaking the Spell booktalk at Reed Secular Alliance,
March, 2009
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Debating Dinesh
D'Souza at Tufts University, November 30th, 2007
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Lecturing at Beyond Belief:
Enlightenment 2.0, October 31, 2007
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Being interviewed on CCTV
International, January 2nd, 2008
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Check out this video version
of the dramatization of "Where am I?" made in Holland
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Evolutionary Perspectives
(Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker, Diamond, Adams)
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MISCELLANEOUS…
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Radio Boston interview, May
7th, 2013
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BBC HARDTALK interview,
April 1st, 2013
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Katia Kanban
discusses the debate about memetics between
Dennett and Sperber
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Philosophy Bites podcast
interview
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Interviewed by Patt Morrison on KPCC Radio 89.3
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Podcast: “Practical and
Theoretical Free Will, Institute of Philosophy, UK, 5/11/12
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Reflections on the Personal/Subpersonal, May 11-12, UCL London
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Dan Dennett wins the 2012
Erasmus Prize!
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The winners of the 2009 3
Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy
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Read a tribute read by
Richard Dawkins while giving Dan Dennett an award
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“Is religion a threat to
rationality and science?” in eG Weekly, The
London Guardian, April 22nd, 2008.
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Listen to a podcast of Dan
Dennett at Agora's Science, Religion and Reason Debate in London, April
22nd, 2008
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He also can be heard here,
on the BBC - Radio 4 - Start the Week program, recorded April 21, 2008
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Interview by IHU Online
(Brazilian magazine)
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An animation of my DARWIN
acronym in Latin, by Deniz Cem
Önduygu
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A Greek version of the
DARWIN acronym by Gerol Petruzella
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Excellent Tree of Life
Diagram
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Belorussian translation of
"The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an
Intuition?" provided
by FatCow
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¡Detengan
a ese cuervo! (Entrevista a Daniel
C. Dennett) | Desde el Exilio
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Desde el Exilio
(front page)
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La nueva
Ilustración Evolucionista
/ The new Evolutionary Enlightenment: ¡Detengan a ese cuervo!
(Entrevista a Daniel C. Dennett)
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Entrevista Daniel Dennett -- Desconstruindo o "eu"
(Flavio Paranhos)
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Interviewed in El Pais Digital, 3/26/2010, "El Heredero
de Bertrand Russell"
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Polish translation of “The
Unbelievable Truth: Why America…”(NYDailyNews.com,
10/3/10) provided by Małgorzata Koraszewska; see link at the top left of this page for
all of her Dennett translations.
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Serbian translation, by Mihailo Antovic, of
"From Typo to Thinko: When Evolution
Graduated to Semantic Norms"
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Hindi translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
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Belorussian translation of
“review of Jackendoff/Pinker 1994”
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Russian translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
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Polish translation of “A lesson from Hitch: When rudeness is
called for”
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Polish translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
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Another Polish
translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of
an Intuition?”
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Mailing address:
Center for Cognitive Studies
115 Miner Hall
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155-7059
tel: 617.627.3297
fax: 617.627.3952
email: daniel(dot)dennett(at)tufts(dot)edu
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Dennett and LaScola
are planning a follow-up study, and clergy interested in participating, in
strict confidence,
should contact Linda LaScola at:
LindaLaScola@gmail.com
or by calling: 202-363-9367
or writing:
LaScola Qualitative Research
3900 Connecticut Avenue, NW 101F
Washington, DC 20008
Please make it clear how you wish
to receive any response. All communications
will be carefully conducted to ensure
confidentiality.
Dennett on RadioBoston, December 7th, 2010
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Karl Giberson,
Ph.D: The Temptation of Faith Fibbing for Jesus
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The Unbelievable Truth: Why America
has become a nation of religious know-nothings, NYDailyNews.com, October
3rd, 2010
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On Faith postings by Dennett
at The Washington Post
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Interview in The Boston Globe, April 11th, 2010
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Podcast interview on
‘Religion for Life’ by John Shuck (Part I) (and part II here)
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