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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Daniel Dennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 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.hallencyclopedia.com /Daniel_Dennett   (1783 words)

  
 Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
On another version of the view that the complete-knowledge claim is false, Mary’s science lectures allow her to deduce the truths involving structural-dynamical properties of physical phenomena, but not their intrinsic properties.
For example, instead of explaining Mary’s epistemic progress in terms of newly acquired abilities, he might argue that her “progress” is an illusion; in other words, he might reject the learning claim.
Criticism 6a: Mary cannot deduce certain phenomenal truths from the complete physical truth only because she lacks the relevant concepts, such as the concept of phenomenal redness.
www.iep.utm.edu /k/know-arg.htm   (6349 words)

  
 Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two other thinkers often considered to be in the same camp as Dawkins are the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, and the philosopher Daniel Dennett who has promoted the gene-centric view of evolution and defended reductionism in biology.
Dawkins coined the term meme (analogous to the gene) to describe how Darwinian principles might be extended to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena, which spawned the theory of memetics.
Memetics, gene selection, and sociobiology have been criticised as being overly-reductionist by such thinkers as the philosopher Mary Midgley, with whom Dawkins has debated since the late 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Dawkins   (3447 words)

  
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Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault, edited by Mary E. Odem and Jody Clay Warner, (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Press, 1997)
"Sexual Behavior and Morality," essay in Encyclopedia of American Social History, edited by Mary  Kupiec Cayton, Elliot J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992): vol.
Constance M. Chen, The Sex Side of Life: Mary Ware Dennett’s Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education, in  Journal of American History (December 1998)
www.history.emory.edu /vitas/CV-Odem.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Book Abbreviations
[CS:KOM] Kinds of Minds: Towards and Understanding of Consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Basic Books/Harper: 1996.
[HI:AMMA] The Acts of Mar Mari the Apostle.
Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo (eds.).
www.christian-thinktank.com /bookabs.html   (10892 words)

  
 Pickover Report -- Breaking News in Science Near The Edge
Technology should be sufficiently advanced for a future researcher to insert a message inside this frame:
FeeJee Mermaid, Piltdown Man, Mary Toft, Unicorn Skeleton, Cardiff Giant, Alien Autopsy, Cottingley Fairies, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Tasaday People
What would you do if you met an archimandrite coming out of your local mall?
sprott.physics.wisc.edu /pickover/pickover_report.html   (1023 words)

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