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Daniel Dennett

October 2023

  • Daniel Dennett, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Nov 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ibl/REX/Shutterstock (9644198c) Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Nov 2017 longread

    I’ve Been Thinking by Daniel C Dennett review – an engaging, vexing memoir with a humility bypass

    The veteran US philosopher renowned for his theories of consciousness is an intriguing figure but too prone to ‘professorial preening’

August 2021

  • Anil Seth, shot in 2010.

    Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life’

    The professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience discusses his work to develop a scientific explanation for how the brain conjures consciousness

February 2019

  • Sam Harris

    Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side

    The neuroscientist – and longtime exponent of meditation – talks about his new app and why he is definitely not an Islamophobe

January 2019

  • Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.

    Book of the day
    The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?

    Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris ... were the apostles of atheism as fearless as they thought?

July 2018

  • for a scientific experiment, a man connected with cables to a computer,

    Further reading
    Books to get inside your head: Tim Parks picks the smartest books about the brain

    Is consciousness internal, readable, even uploadable? Does it exist in the external world? Here are some mind-bending reads that have the answers

September 2017

  • Getting inside other minds … the 1973 film of Westworld, which was recently updated as an HBO TV series, heavily influenced by Julian Jaynes’s theories.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about consciousness

    From octupuses that might be thinking with their arms to early humans’ blind obedience to gods, these are some of the best guides to the deep enigma inside ordinary life

March 2017

  • Brain waves showing REM sleep (dreaming) passing on to consciousness (awakening)<br>AGHKK6 brain waves (alfa, beta, gamma) showing REM-sleep (dreaming) passing on to consciousness (awakening)

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Daniel Dennett on consciousness and 100 years of Anthony Burgess – books podcast

  • Daniel Dennett

    From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C Dennett review – memes of making you think

February 2017

  • Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Dennett: ‘I begrudge every hour I have to spend worrying about politics’

    Truth has long been a key concern for the American philosopher. He’s in the UK to discuss his latest book on consciousness, but there’s just no escaping Trump…

July 2013

  • Daniel Dennett versus Andrew Brown

    Five-minute debates
    Do the New Atheists have any new ideas? - five-minute video debate

    Andrew Brown challenges Daniel Dennett to convince him that the New Atheists have the arguments to back up their rhetoric

June 2013

  • Daniel Dennett Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies

    Science Weekly
    Science Weekly podcast: Daniel Dennett's tools for thinking

    Daniel Dennett discusses his new book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, and Vivienne Parry previews the Cheltenham Science Festival

May 2013

  • Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Dennett: 'You can make Aristotle look like a flaming idiot'

    Daniel Dennett, a cheerleader for Darwin and atheism, attracts fierce criticism for his views on free will. He tells Julian Baggini about his new book and explains why philosophers have to walk a tightrope

March 2013

  • Daniel Dennett Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies

    Notes & Theories
    Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind' – interview

    American philosopher Daniel Dennett talks to Carole Jahme about faith, science, empathy – and Short Circuit

September 2012

  • Atheist Bus Campaign

    Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford – review

    Richard Holloway commends a dispatch from the frontline of religion v atheism

September 2011

  • A model of a human head as used by phrenologogists

    Aping Mankind by Raymond Tallis – review

    Andrew Brown on a rigorous investigation of what it means to be human

June 2011

  • Andrew Brown's blog
    Minds, brains and woo

    Talking about 'brains' when we mean minds just adds a specious impression of profundity to platitudes

April 2010

  • My bright idea
    David Eagleman: 'We won't die – our consciousness will live forever on the internet'

    Seeing God as a microbe is just one way the neuroscientist's debut novel gets to grips with the afterlife, as he explains to Sean O'Hagan

July 2009

  • Cif belief
    You'd better believe it

    Carlo Strenger
    Carlo Strenger: Daniel Dennett argues that many religious people don't truly believe. But though I sympathise, it's a case of wishful thinking

  • Cif belief
    The philosopher's God

    HE Baber
    HE Baber: Should we believe in belief?: There is no cabal seeking to pull the wool over peoples' eyes. Many philosophers believe in God, and many more think the issue is not easily solved

  • Cif belief
    The folly of pretence

    Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Dennett: Should we believe in belief?: We must not preserve the myth of God – it was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it

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