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	Daniel C. Dennett
		Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
		Dennett's research centers on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
		He is perhaps best known for his concept of intentional systems, and his multiple drafts model of human consciousness, which sketches a computational architecture for realizing the stream of consciousness in the massively parallel cerebral cortex.
	www.machineslikeus.com /People/Dennett_Daniel.html (0 words)

	Uitgeverij Contact: Daniel C. Dennett
		Daniel C. Dennett is een van de meest gerespecteerde en toonaangevende filosofen van dit moment en houdt zich intensief bezig met de aard van het bewustzijn.
		Daniel C. Dennett laat in De betovering van het geloof zien hoe religie ontstaan is, van het kleinschalige begin in volksgeloof en bijgeloof tot aan de grote instituties waarbinnen het geloof meestal strak georganiseerd is. Eerlijk en genuanceerd onderzoekt hij wat mensen belangrijk vinden aan religie en wat ze eraan ontlenen.
		Dennett is sceptisch maar niet antireligieus, en wanneer blijkt dat het antwoord op die vraag soms wel degelijk 'ja' is, wil hij begrijpen hoe dat kan - en zo heeft hij werkelijk iets nieuws te zeggen over de grote vragen van onze tijd.
	www.uitgeverijcontact.nl /index.php?id=173 (402 words)

	Daniel Dennett
		Daniell C. Dennett, American philosopher, is Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University (USA).
		Dennett’s approach is not only naturalistic, but also functionalist, in the sense that human organisms are biological machines whose behavior is controlled by their brains.
		Dennett appeals to an interesting "visit to the phenomenological garden", in order to show that we do have some privileged access to our conscious experience, but that we also do tend to think that we are much immune to error in this field than we really are.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/Daniel-English.htm (2726 words)

	Daniel Dennett
		Daniel C. Dennett is a leading researcher of consciousness, philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence at Tufts University where he is the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies.
		Dennett earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 1963, and completed a Doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford University in 1965 under the supervision of Gilbert Ryle.
		Daniel Dennett is the author of several popular and academic books.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Daniel_Dennett (198 words)

	Consciousness Explained (Daniel Dennett) - book review
		Dennett doesn't think like this at all: while he agrees that consciousness is a pretty complex and amazing thing, he refuses to accept that there is anything uneliminably "mysterious" about it, and Consciousness Explained is his best attempt at an explanation.
		Dennett starts off with a discussion of how hallucinations are possible that introduces both his subject and the approach he is going to use.
		Dennett has clearly gone to a lot of trouble to make his work approachable to a popular audience, and I feel it deserves a wider readership than it is likely to get.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Consciousness_Explained.html (681 words)

	The Dogmatic Determinism of Daniel Dennett
		Daniel Dennett is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory of evolution as of central importance to understanding man and his place in the universe.
		Dennett assumes that causality is a relation between events: The motions of atoms or ions at one moment cause their motions at the next moment; the firing of a nerve in the brain causes a muscle to contract.
		Dennett goes on to discuss how organisms that act in isolation can evolve, through the process of Darwinian evolution, into organisms that act cooperatively with each other; and then to claim that concepts of morality, responsibility, and blame (which is what he means by "free will") can be based on such evolved cooperation.
	ios.org /articles/emozes_review-dennett.asp (2355 words)

	Daniel Dennett Information
		Dennett is currently (August 2005) the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies (with Ray Jackendoff) at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
		Dennett is also well known for his argument against qualia; he 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.
		Dennett's views on evolution are identified as being strongly adaptationist, in line with the views of zoologist Richard Dawkins.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Daniel_Dennett (1378 words)

	In the News: "Brights": An Exchange Between Daniel C. Dennett and Michael C. Rea
		Dennett Exegesis: Several people have pressed me on the question whether I’ve really made a case for the claim that Dennett thinks that certain religious views ought to be caged.
		Dennett thinks that doing this amounts to “deliberately misinforming people about the natural world” and that it's a terrible thing that's not to be tolerated.
		Dennett's piece gives “aid and comfort” to a wide variety of agendas, some of which he agrees with and others of which he doesn’t.
	www.arn.org /docs2/news/BrightsDennettRea071303.htm (5158 words)

	Reasons To Believe: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett - Reviewed by Chris ...
		Dennett is a professor of philosophy and codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
		Dennett writes that "shamans tend to run in families, according to a wealth of anthropological evidence, but this could, of course, be due entirely to vertical cultural transmission (of the shamanic memes from parent to child)" (p.
		Dennett’s argument that evolution produces an instinct in humans that leads them to adopt a false belief in god(s) causes his entire thesis to be self-refuting.
	www.reasons.org /resources/apologetics/other_papers/breaking_the_spell.shtml (2320 words)

	Daniel Dennett's Dangerous Idea. Origins & Design 17:1. Johnson, Phillip E.
		Daniel Dennett's fertile imagination is captivated by the very dangerous idea that the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution should become the basis for what amounts to an established state religion of scientific materialism.
		Dennett contends that whether this or any other model is testable, at least cosmic Darwinism relies on the same kind of thinking that has been successful in scientific fields like biology where testing is possible, and that is enough to make it preferable to an alternative that brings in a skyhook.
		Dennett cannot be accused of avoiding the religious liberty issue, or of burying it in tactful circumlocutions.
	www.arn.org /docs/odesign/od171/dennett171.htm (2516 words)

	Book Reviews: Dennett, Daniel
		Dennett makes his way between "skyhookers" and "greedy reductionists," but it is apparent that if he errs he wants it to be on the side of reductionism.
		Dennett's image of memes nesting unauthored and uncriticized in the mind reflects a rejection of Cartesian dualism in all its forms, along with any language that might encourage a picture of the mind as an "Inner Theater" with an observing self.
		Dennett is convinced that only evolutionary analysis can make sense of the origins of ethical norms, but in the final analysis, he sheds little new light on the key question of how selective pressure might produce characteristics of altruism and cooperation.
	www.scientificexploration.org /jse/bookreviews/11-2/dennett.html (2755 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Freedom Evolves: Books: Daniel C. Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennett claims that misunderstanding of determinism is still prevalent among scientists and philosophers who subsequently misrepresent his views as they continue to resist a materialistic treatment of mind.
		Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality, it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom.
		Daniel Dennett is not a man to shy from grand philosophical pronouncements.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Freedom-Evolves-Daniel-C-Dennett/dp/0713993391 (2616 words)

	HaldenJohnson {dot} Net : Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett
		Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon is an excellent analysis of the role Religion has played in the history and evolution of human society.
		Dennett also concludes that what the world needs is not less religious education but in fact more, but not in the form of traditional indoctrination but of an objective look at large range of religions.
		Daniel Dennett is a out spoken Atheist but his still manages to discuss and question religion with respect and genuine interest.
	haldenjohnson.net /2006/11/18/572 (699 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Breaking the Spell, by Daniel C. Dennett, Hardcover
		Because Dennett offers a tentative proposal for exploring religion as a natural phenomenon, his book is sometimes plagued by generalizations that leave us wanting more ("Only when we can frame a comprehensive view of the many aspects of religion can we formulate defensible policies for how to respond to religions in the future").
		Although Dennett specializes in philosophy, not biology, he is no newcomer to evolutionary theory; in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), he took on the role of a modern T.H. Huxley and popularized sociobiological accounts of distinctly human phenomena such as language and morality.
		Daniel Dennett has written what may turn out to be one of the most significant works on the religious phenonmenon offered as a point of departure.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&isbn=067003472X (1420 words)

	Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
		Dennett uses the rather lame example of the coin-toss as a binary outcome (heads or tails) with such an infinitude of influences (the weight of the coin, force of the toss, rotational momentum, direction of the breeze, phase of the moon, etc.) as to effectively have no cause.
		(Dennett also seems to confuse culpability with causation, citing the famous riddle of the man whose canteen water is successively poisoned by one enemy, then replaced with sand by another, then emptied when yet a third surreptitiously pokes a hole in the bottom.
		Dennett's ruminations are worth reading, but armchair researchers are better off absorbing his previous books, preferrably in chronological order, before tackling this latest effort.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Oct04/freedomevolves.htm (768 words)

	Amazon.ca: Elbow Room : The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting: Books: Daniel C. Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include Brainstorms and (with Douglas Hofstadter) The Mind's I, tackles the free will problem in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of several fields usually ignored by philosophers; not just physics and evolutionary biology, but engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence.
		Daniel C. Dennett is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
		Dennett has written a very thought provoking analysis of how free will is compatible with determinism, clearing away the bug bears and myths, by analysins just what we mean by 'choice' 'can' and 'inevitable'.
	www.amazon.ca /Elbow-Room-Varieties-Worth-Wanting/dp/0262540428 (2328 words)

	Chemistry - Daniel Dennett
		Dennett's research centers on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
		Dennett is the author of several major books on evolution and consciousness.
		Dennett 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.
	www.chemistrydaily.com /chemistry/Daniel_Dennett (560 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Daniel C. Dennett
		Dennett finishes off with the point that Dawkins also made, at the end of his 'The Selfish Gene', we humans are the first species on this planet not to be at the mercy of our genes.
		Dennett is not claiming that this is how religion did arise, merely that it is a plausible account of how it could have, based on what we know of evolution, anthropology, and history, deserving of further investigation, either to refute it, or to firm up the details.
		Dennett claims to be writing this book to help with some of the problems that (fundamentalist) religion, in a variety of flavours, is causing around the world today.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/d/dennett.htm (5076 words)

	Daniel Dennett's theory of consciousness - the intentional stance and multiple drafts.
		Dennett says we'll be alright if we stick to the third-person point of view (talking about how other people's minds work, rather than talking about our own); but it's our own, first-person sensations and experiences that hold the real mystery, and it's a shame that Dennett should deny himself the challenge of working on them.
		Dennett realises, of course, that we can't make a bookshelf conscious just by giving it a funny look, but the required theory of what makes something a suitable target for the stance (which is really the whole point) never gets satisfactorily resolved in my view, in spite of some talk about 'optimality'.
		Dennett's views can be seen as carrying on a long-term project of which the theory of evolution formed an important part.
	www.consciousentities.com /dennett.htm (2923 words)

	TED \| Talks \| Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds? (video)
		Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.
		Dennett's hope is to show his audience that "Your consciousness is not quite as marvelous as you may have thought it is." He uses thought experiments and optical illusions to demonstrate to the TED audience that even very big brains are capable of playing tricks on their owners.
		Dennett is just about the top of the game when it comes to writing in philosophy and has contributed some wonderful ideas...
	www.ted.com /tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=d_dennett (1093 words)

	PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Life's Really Big Questions:Dennett
		Daniel C. Dennett enjoys getting to the bottom of some of life's biggest questions; where did we come from, and what makes us human?
		DENNETT: I think that the idea that philosophy and science are so distinct is a fairly recent idea in the last 150 years or so.
		DENNETT: I think that one of the keys to understanding this joint between the purely mindless mechanical world and the mind is to recognize that the transition is gradual.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1103/features/dennett.htm (661 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Daniel Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Daniel Dennett is a philosopher (DPhil Oxford) who specializes in philosophy of biology and cognitive science.
		Dennett is currently (August 2005) employed as Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies (with Ray Jackendoff) at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
		Dennett 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.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/daniel_dennett (1309 words)

	Breaking the Spell - Daniel C. Dennett
		Dennett's approach is emphatically scientific, as he considers religion as a 'natural phenomenon' and not as the divinely inspired super-natural institution that is so widely held to be beyond scientific inquiry.
		Dennett isn't entirely convinced of much of this -- he notes that some of these effects can also be explained in other ways, and that some anecdotal evidence or beliefs simply aren't true (most notably and emphatically that religious believers are somehow more moral than non-believers).
		Dennett offers a wealth of examples and possible counter-arguments, and his explanation of the evolution of religion is certainly interesting.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/religion/dennettd.htm (2074 words)

	Philosophers : Daniel Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennett is one of the foremost determinists today, advocating a mechanical explanation of consciousness.
		Dennett goes to great lengths to deconstruct the Cartesian Theater, the celebrated model of consciousness devised by Rene Descartes in the 17th century.
		Dennett puts the theory of multiple drafts, in which our minds react to stimuli by activating a particular draft of action.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/dennett.html (264 words)

	Daniel C. Dennett: OnFaith on washingtonpost.com
		Daniel C. Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, at Tufts University.
		Dennett has written over 300 scholarly articles on various aspects of the mind in scientific journals.
		Dennett completed his D.Phil degree work under Gilbert Ryle at Oxford in 1965, and has lectured at Harvard University, Pittsburgh and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
	newsweek.washingtonpost.com /onfaith/daniel_c_dennett (634 words)

	Amazon.com: Consciousness Explained: Books: Daniel C. Dennett (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Central to Daniel C. Dennett's attempt to resolve this dilemma is the "heterophenomenological" method, which treats reports of introspection nontraditionally--not as evidence to be used in explaining consciousness, but as data to be explained.
		Tufts University cognitive scientist Dennett claims to have developed a major new theory of consciousness, yet his view of the brain as a massive parallel processor is a familiar one.
		Dennett does make a coherent case, but the theme is buried in so many asides and diversions that one needs a conceptual GPS to stay oriented.
	www.amazon.com /Consciousness-Explained-Daniel-C-Dennett/dp/0316180661 (1957 words)

	Daniel C. Dennett - The MIT Press
		Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
		Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, Daniel Dennett asserts in this first full scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years.
		Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/author/default.asp?aid=3041 (375 words)

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