March 21, 2005
Curriculum Vitae
DANIEL C. DENNETT
PERSONAL:
Born,
Married to Susan Bell
Dennett; two children.
ADDRESS:
EDUCATION:
B.A.,
D. Phil. (philosophy),
FELLOWSHIPS:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,
1963 (declined, to study at
Guggenheim Fellowship,
1973-74 (declined in favor of next two items).
Santayana Fellowship,
N. E. H. Younger Humanist
Fellowship, 1974.
Fulbright Research
Fellowship to the University,
Visiting Fellowship,
N. E. H. Senior Fellowship,
1979.
Fellow, Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1979-80.
Guggenheim Fellowship,
1986-87.
Fellow, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre
Forschung,
Writer in Residence,
Bellagio Study and
Visiting Erskine Fellow,
Distinguished Fellow, Centre
for the Mind, Institute for Advanced Study,
Collegium
SPECIAL
LECTURESHIPS:
Taft Lectures,
Luce Distinguished Lecture
in Cognitive Science,
Herbert Spencer Lecture,
Sloan Visiting Scientist
Lectures, Dept. of Computer Science,
Council for Philosophical
Studies, Summer Institute on Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind,
John Locke Lectures,
Gavin David Young Lectures,
Gramlich Memorial Lecture,
Philosophy Department,
Visiting Professor, Ecole
Normale Supérieure,
John Dewey Lecture,
Distinguished Lecture
Series, MIT Laboratory of Computer Science,
Tanner Lecture,
Mandel Lecture, American
Society for Aesthetics,
Amnesty Lecture,
Inaugural Benjamin and Anne
A. Pinkel Endowed Lecture,
Jessie and John Danz
Professor of Microbiology,
Jean Nicod Lectures,
Institut Nicod,
Daewoo Lectures,
Bertrand Russell Society
Award,
APA Barwise Prize,
Petrus Hispanus
Lectures, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa,
POSITIONS HELD:
1964-65 Lecturer,
1965-70 Assistant Professor
of Philosophy,
1968 Visiting Assistant
Professor,
1970-71 Associate Professor,
1971-75 Associate Professor,
1973 Visiting Associate
Professor,
1975 Visiting Professor,
1975- Professor,
1976-82 Chairman, Department
of Philosophy.
1979 Visiting Lecturer,
1985-89 Co-Director
Curricular Software Studio,
1985-2000 Distinguished Professor of Arts &
Sciences;
1985- Director, Center for
Cognitive Studies,
2000- Austin B. Fletcher
Professor of Philosophy, Tufts Univeristy
Leverhulme Professor, Dept
of Philosophy and History of Science,
MEMBERSHIPS:
Academia
Scientiarum et Artum Europaea
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence.
American Philosophical
Association (President, 1999-2000).
Cognitive Science Society.
Memory Disorder Society
Society for Philosophy and
Psychology (President, 1980-81).
EDITORIAL
POSITIONS:
Associate Editor, Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Editorial Board, Adaptive
Behavior; Artificial Intelligence Review; Artificial Life; Behavior and
Philosophy; Biology and Philosophy; Brain and Mind; Cogito; Consciousness and
Cognition; Episteme; Evolutionary Psychology; Journal of Consciousness Studies;
Perception; Philosophy & Phenomenological Research; PHILO.
BOOKS ABOUT:
Dahlbom, Bo,
ed., 1993, Dennett and his Critics,
Philosophical Topics, 1994, The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett, 22, #1 and 2.
Ross, Don and
Brook, Andrew, 2000, Dennett=s
Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment,
Brook, Andrew
and Ross, Don, eds., 2002, Daniel Dennett,
Symons, John,
2002, On Dennett,
Elton, Matthew,
2003, Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and our Self-Conception,
Yulina,
Nina, 2004, (in Russian) ГOЛOBOЛOMKИ ПPOБЛЕМЬI
COЗНАНИЯ:
КОНЦеПЦИЯ
ДЭНИеЛа
ДЭНИеТа (The “Brainstorms” in
Philosophy of Mind: Daniel Dennett and his Critics),
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Content and Consciousness, Routledge & Kegan
Paul,
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology,
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Co-edited with Douglas
Hofstadter, Basic Books, 1981. (Japanese
edition, 1984; Spanish and Italian editions, 1985; German and Dutch editions
1986; French and Chinese editions, 1987;
Greek edition, 1993).
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, MIT Press,
The Intentional Stance, MIT Press/A Bradford Book,
1987 (French edition, 1990; Spanish edition, 1991; Italian edition, 1993;
Japanese edition, 1995).
Consciousness Explained, Little, Brown, 1991,
Penguin, 1992 (Dutch, Italian, French, German, Spanish editions).
Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Simon & Schuster, 1995
(Dutch, German, Japanese, Hungarian, French, Portugese, Spanish and Italian
editions).
Kinds of Minds, Basic Books, 1996. Part of the Science Masters Series (also
editions in French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, German, Dutch, Finnish,
Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese).
Brainchildren: Essays on
Designing Minds, MIT Press and Penguin, 1998.
AZ Intencionalitas
Filozofiaja, Philosophy of Intentionality, Selected Papers, Osiris Kiado publishers,
Budapest, a collection of essays, translated by Csaba Pleh into Hungarian, 1998.
Freedom
Evolves, Allen Lane Publishers, an
imprint of Penguin Books, 2003.
Selected Recent Articles: (a complete
bibliography is available at http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/biblio.htm)
1996
“Facing Backwards on the
Problem of Consciousness,” commentary on Chalmers for Journal of
Consciousness Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 (special issue, part 2), 1996, pp.
4-6, reprinted in J. Shear, ed, Explaining Consciousness - The “Hard
Problem,” MIT Press, 1997, pp. 33-36.
“Producing Future by Telling Stories,” in K. Ford and Z. Pylyshyn, eds, The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. pp. 1-7.
“Seeing is Believing--or is
it?” in K. Akins ed., Perception, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive
Science, vol. 5: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996 pp. 158-172.
“Bewusstsein hat mehr mit
Ruhm als mit Fernsehen zu tun,” (German translation, “Consciousness: More like
Fame than Television”) Christa Maar, Ernst Pöppel, and Thomas Christaller,
eds., Die Technik auf dem Weg zur Seele, Rowohlt, 1996.
“Cow-sharks, Magnets, and Swampman,” Mind & Language,vol. 11 no. 1, 1996, pp 76-77.
“Granny versus Mother Nature
-- No Contest,” Mind & Language, vol. 11, no.3, 1996, pp. 263-269.
“The Scope of Natural
Selection,” Boston Review, Oct/Nov 1996, replies to H.Allen Orr’s
review, “Dennett’s Strange Idea,” Boston Review, summer 1996.
A response to an article, “The Deniable Darwin,” by
David Berlinski in Commentary,
written by Dennett in “Letters from Readers,” Commentary, September, 1996.
“Qui pouvons-nous etre?,”
(“Who can we be?”) avec Angele Kremer-Marietti, Les Rencontres
Philosophiques De L”Unesco, 1996.
1997
“Qualia,” interview with
Daniel C. Dennett, Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences, M.S.Gazzaniga ed., (originally appeared in Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience).
“Did HAL Commit Murder?
(Authorized Title),” [Unauthorized
Title:”When Hal Kills, Who’s to Blame? Computer Ethics,”] in D. Stork, ed., Hal’s
Legacy:2001's Computer as Dream and Reality, MIT Press 1997, pp 351-365.
“Haru Densetu: 2001nen
Konpyuta no yume to genjitsu,” Japanese translation of Hal’s Legacy: 2001's
Computer as Dream and Reality, Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.,
“Reply to Mulhauser,” Philosophical
Books, 38, pp 89-92.
“Consciousness in human and
robot minds,” Cognition,Computation, & Consciousness, M. Ito, Y. Miyashita,
and E.T. Rolls, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 17-29.
“Cog as a Thought
Experiment,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 20, pp. 251-256.
“Can Machines Think? DEEP
BLUE and Beyond,” published in ICCA Journal, International Computer
Chess Association, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1997, Universiteit Maastricht, Dept
of Computer Science, and as a separate pamphlet (the Dr. J. Tans Lecture) with
an introduction by Dr. L. Blomert by Studium Generale Maastricht, 1997.
1998
“The Leibnizian Paradigm,”
originally published in Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings
of Life, 1995,
Comment on “A Critique of
Evolutionary Archeology,” by James L. Boone & Eric Alden Smith, in Current
Anthropology, volume 39, Supplement, June 1998, pp. 157-158 (originally
titled “Snowmobiles, horses, rats and memes”).
“The Evolution of Religious
Memes: Who-or What-Benefits?” in Method & Theory in the Study of
Religion, 10, 115-128, 1998.
“An Interview with Fred
Dretske,” The Dualist, Stanford’s
Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, Spring 1998, Volume V, Number 1, pp.
85-86.
“Where is Consciousness,”
lecture at the University of Groningen and Enschede, The Netherlands, October
1-7, 1996, translated into Dutch and published in Algemeen Nederlands
Tidschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 90-2,1998,93-102.
“Revolution, no! Reform,
si!” Commentary on van Gelder, T., “The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive
science,” in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 21:5, October 1998,
636-637.
“Intentional Stance,”
contribution to The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Press, 1998, 410-411.
Reply to Nicholas Humphrey,
“Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind,” in
“The Myth of Double
Transduction,” in the volume of the International Consciousness Conference, Toward
a Science of Consciousness II, The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates,
S. Hameroff, ed., A.W. Kaszniak, and A.C. Scott, MIT Press, 1998, pp. 97-107;
translated into Italian and reprinted in ATQUE, materiali tra filosofia
e psicoterapia, Nov 97-Apr 98, pp. 11-26..
“How to do Other Things with
Words,” Royal Institute Conference on Philosophy of Language, in Philosophy,
vol. 1999, 219-35.
“Faith in the Truth,” in The
Values of Science, W. Williams, ed., (The Amnesty Lectures, Oxford 1997),
Basic Books, pp. 95-109; Westview Press, 1999; also, in Free Inquiry,
Spring 2000.
“Where am I?” in Portuguese
translation, in Cerebros, Maquinas e Consciencia, J.Teixeira, ed.,
Editora da Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, pp. 143-65; reprinted in Foundations of Cognitive Psychology, A
Bradford Book, MIT Press, 2002, pp. 23-33.
“Reflections on Language and
Mind,” in Language and thought: interdisciplinary themes, P.Carruthers
and J. Boucher, eds. CUP, Spring 1998, pp. 284-94.
“Waar Zit Het Bewustzijn?” lecture given at the
response to “Overlooked
Skyhooks,” a review of Darwin's Dangerous
Idea by Robert L. Cambell, in Metascience, Volume 7, Number 3,
November 1998, Blackwell Publishers, pp. 489-499 (review), pp. 500-501
(author's response).
1999
Afterword to Richard
Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype, Oxford University Press paperback
edition, 1999, pp. 265-269.
“Stability is not
intrinsic,” with C.F.Westbury, commentary on O’Brien & Opie: Connectionism
and phenomenal experience, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 22,
Number 1, February 1999, Cambridge University Press, pp. 153-154.
“Verbal language as a
communicative system,” translated into Malay and reprinted in Bahasa,
(43)8,
“The Virtues of Virtual
Machines,” by Shannon Densmore and Daniel Dennett, in Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, September, 1999, Vol. LIX, No.3, pp. 747-767.
“Protecting Public Health,”
in Predictions, 30 great minds on the future, published by The Times
Higher Education Supplement, pp. 74-75, 1999.
“Ludwig Wittgenstein,” in Time
Magazine, The Century’s Greatest Minds,
“Sort-of symbols?” with C.
Viger, commentary on Barsalou: Perceptual symbol systems, Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, vol. 22, no. 4, August, 1999, p. 613.
“Why Getting It Right Matters,”
(originally titled “Postmodernism and Truth,” Volume of the World Congress of
Philosophy, August 13, 1998), in Free Inquiry, Winter 1999/00, vol 20,
no. 1, pp. 40-43; reprinted in Questions
of Philosophy, transl. by Yulina N.S., Moscow, Russia, 2001, N.8, pp.
93-100; reprinted in Science and Religion,
Are They Compatible?, ed. Paul Kurtz, Prometheus Books, 2003, pp. 149-159.
“La mente sta nel cervello?”
Italian translation of “Is your mind in your brain?”, in Percezione
linguaggio coscienza: Saggi di filosofia della mente, ed. Michele Carenini,
Quodlibet pub.
“Intrinsic changes in experience: Swift and enormous,” commentary on Palmer, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 22, No. 6, December 1999, p. 951.
2000
“The Battery,” in The
Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years, ed. John Brockman, Simon &
Schuster, 2000, pp. 73-74.
“It’s Not a Bug, It’s a
Feature,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No. 4, 2000, pp. 25-7.
“Making Tools for Thinking,”
in Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, D. Sperber, ed.,
“Re-introducing The Concept
of Mind,” Foreword to Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind, Penguin
Classics, 2000, viiii-xix.
“The Case for Rorts,” in Rorty
and His Critics, Ed., R. B. Brandom, Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp.
99-101.
interviewed by Chris Floyd
of Science & Spirit Magazine, 11, 2, May/June 2000, pp. 18-20.
“With a Little Help from My
Friends,” in Dennett's Philosophy, A Comprehensive Assessment, eds. D.
Ross, A. Brook, D. Thompson, MIT Press, 2000, pp. 327-388.
Foreword to Darwinizing
Culture, the status of memetics as a science, ed. Robert Aunger, Oxford
University Press, 2000, pp. vii-ix.
“Postmodernism and Truth,”
in the Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, 8,
2000, pp. 93-103.
with Christopher Westbury,
“Mining The Past To Construct The Future: Memory and belief as forms of
knowledge,” in Schacter, D. and Scarry, E. (Eds.). Memory, Brain, and Belief.
“To Tell the Truth?” excerpted from “Faith in the Truth,” New Humanist, Spring 2001, pp. 26-8.
interviewed by Cristina
Junyent for Quark: Ciencia, Medicina, Comunicacion y Cultura, 19,
Julio-dicembre 2000 (
interviewed by Enrique Font
Bisier for Metode, revista de difuso de la investigacio, Hivern
(Winter)2000/01, pp. 54-61 (
2001
“Are we explaining consciousness yet?” Cognition 79 (2001) 221-237.
“Implantable brain
chips-will they change who we are?” in Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter,
Spring 2001, pp. 6-7.
“Collision, Detection,
Muselot, and Scribble: Some Reflections on Creativity” in Virtual Music,
Computer Synthesis of Musical Style, by David Cope, MIT Press, 2001, pp.
283-291.
“Things about Things,” The
Foundations of Cognitive Science, Joao Branquinho, ed. Clarendon Press,
“The Evolution of Culture,” The Monist,
vol. 84, no. 3, pp 305-324.
“Cognitive Ethology: Hunting
for Bargains or a Wild Goose Chase?” Italian translation in Mente senza
linguaggio: Il pensiero e gli animali, Simone Gozzano, ed.,
“The Zombic Hunch:
Extinction of an Intuition?” in Philosophy at the New Millenium, ed.
Anthony O'Hear, Cambridge Univ. Press,
2001, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 48, pp27-43.
“The evolution of
evaluators,” in The Evolution of Economic Diversity, eds. Antonio Nicita
and Ugo Pagano, Routledge, 2001, pp. 66-81.
“Surprise, surprise,”
commentary on O'Regan and Noe, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, (2001) 24:5,
p. 982.
“In
2002
“Who's Afraid of
Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities,” Christopher Taylor and
Daniel Dennett, in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, Robert Kane, ed.,
Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 257-277.
“The New Replicators,” in The
Encyclopedia of Evolution, volume 1, Mark Pagel, ed., Oxford University
Press, 2002, pp. E83-E92.
“What kind of ‘code’ does the brain use?”
translated into German, in Frankfurter
Allgemeine, Seite 38/Montag, 14. Januar 2002, Nr. 11.
“How could I be wrong? How wrong could I
be?” Journal of Consciousness Studies,
special issue: “Is The Visual World a Grand Illusion?” ed. Alva Noe, Vol. 9,
No. 5-6, January 13, 2002, pp 13-16.
“Can Machines Think?” from
chapter 1 in Brainchildren, reprinted
in Foundations of Cognitive Psychology,
A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 2002, pp. 35-54.
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
Consciousness,” Exploring Consciousness,
Humanities, Natural Science, Religion, Proceedings of the International
Symposium, Milano,
“Altruists, Chumps, and
Inconstant Pluralists,” Commentary on Sober and Wilson, Unto Others: The
Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, for Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, November, 2002, vol LXV, No. 3, pp. 692-696.
“Does your brain use the
images in it, and if so, how?” Commentary on Pylshyn, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 25, no. 2, April 2002, pp.
189-190.
“
“A naturalistic perspective
on intentionality. Interview with Daniel Dennett,” by Marco Mirolli, Mind & Society, 6, vol. 3, 2002, pp.
1-12.
“Reply to Clark,” Philososophy of Mental Representation, Hugh Clapin (ed.), Clarendon Press,
2003
“The Mythical Threat of
Genetic Determinism,” The Chronicle of
Higher Education, January 31, 2003, pp. B7-B9; reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing
2004, ed. Steven Pinker, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York,
2004, pp. 45-50.
“on failures of freedom and
the fear of science,” Dædalus, Journal of
the
“Look out for the Dirty
Baby,” Peer Commentay on Baars, Journal
of Consciousness Studies, The double
life of B.F. Skinner, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2003), pp. 31-33.
“The Bright Stuff,” NYTimes.com, Editorials/Op-Ed, http://www.nytimes.com /2003/07/12/opinion/12DENN.html
“Shame on Rea,” A reply to
Michael C. Rea’s “Dennett’s Bright Idea,” (his response to “The Bright Stuff”).
“The Baldwin Effect: a
Crane, not a Skyhook,” in eds. B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew, Evolution and
Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered, MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2003,
pp. 60-79, and Postscript on the Baldwin Effect and Niche Construction, pp.
108-109.
"Who's On First?
Heterophenomenology Explained," Journal
of Consciousness Studies, Special Issue: Trusting the Subject? (Part 1),10,
No.9-10, October 2003, pp.19-30; it also appears in A. Jack and A Roepstorff
eds., Trusting the Subject? Volume 1,
Imprint Academic Pubs., 2003, pp. 19-30.
“Zum Schutz der
wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des Bewutseins vor ideologischen Debatten”
(Protecting Scientific Research on Consciousness from ideological debates), in Gene, Meme, und Gehirne, Suhrkamp Verlag
Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 306-325.
“True Believers: the Intentional Strategy
and Why it Works," translated into Polish in Przeglad Filozoficzno-literacki, n.4(6) 2003, pp. 87-109.
“Beyond beanbag
semantics,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(2003) 26:6, pp. 673-4.
“Forestalling a food fight
over color,” Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (2003) 26:6, pp. 788-9.
“Quinear Los Qualia,” “Quining Qualia,” translated into Spanish and published in eds. M. Ezcurdia and O. Hansberg, La naturaleza de la experiencia, Vol 1, Sensaciones, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, México, 2003, pp. 213-62.
2004
“Can Machines Think?”
reprinted in Alan Turing: Life and Legacy
of a Great Thinker, C. Teuscher, Ed., pp. 295-316, includes Postscript
(1985), “Eyes, Hands and History,” and Postscript (1997), Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
“Could there be a Darwinian
Account of Human Creativity?” in Evolution, From Molecules to Ecosystems,
eds. Andres Moya and Enrique Font, Oxford University Press.
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
consciousness,” in English and translated into Hungarian, Journal of
Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology,
“How has
“The Seed Salon,” a dialogue
with E.O. Wilson in Seed magazine,
No. 9, Spring 2004, pp. 60-65, 103-105.
Obituary for John Maynard
Smith, in Biology and Philosophy.
"Consciousness" in R. L. Gregory, ed., The
Oxford Companion to the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2nd
edition, pp. 209-11.
“What I Want to Be When I grow Up,” Curious Minds, How A Child Becomes A
Scientist, ed. John Brockman, Pantheon Books, New York, pp. 219-25.
“Holding
a mirror up to Dupré,” Commentary on John Dupré’s Human Nature and the
Limits of Science, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXIX,
No.2, September 2004, pp. 473-83.
“La
vittoria di Deep Blue su Kasparov dimostra il successo dell’Intelligenza
Artificiale?, un dibattito tra Hubert Dreyfus e Daniel Dennett,” “Did Deep Blue’s win over Kasparov prove that
Artificial Intelligence has succeeded?, a debate between Hubert Dreyfus and
Daniel Dennett,” in Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and
the Humanities, 4, 2 (1995), to be published in S. Franchi, G. Guzeldere
(eds.), Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds. Artificial Intelligence from
Automata to Cyborgs, M.I.T. Press,
2005
“Geography
Lessons,” letter to the Editor, New York
Times, Book Reviews, Sunday, February 20, 2005, Section 7, page 6, column
3.
Selected Recent Reviews:
of A. G. Cairns-Smith, Evolving the Mind: on the nature of matter
and the origin of consciousness, Nature,
vol. 381,
of Thomas Nagel, Other
Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994, Journal of Philosophy, vol. XCIII, no.
8, Aug 1996, pp. 425-28.
of Douglas Hofstadter &
F.A.R.G, Fluid Concepts And Creative
Analogies, for Complexity Journal,
vol. 1, no. 6, 1995/96, pp. 9-12.
of Walter Burkert, Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in
Early Religions, “Appraising Grace: what evolutionary good is God?,” The Sciences, Jan/Feb 1997 pp 39-44;
reprinted in expanded form in Method
& Theory in the Study of Religion 10/1 (1998).
of John Haugeland: Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind, for The Journal of Philosophy, Volume XCVI, Number 8, August, 1999, 430-35.
of Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka, Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance
in Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000, in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 332-4,
March, 2002.
of Daniel Wegner, Making Ourselves at Home in Our Machines: The
Illusion of Conscious Will, MIT Press, 2002, in Journal of Mathematical Psychology 47 (2003)
101-104.
of Radiant Cool (MIT Press) by Dan Lloyd and Love and Other Games of Chance (Penguin) by Lee
Siegel for Times Literary Supplement Books
of the Year, December 5, 2003, p. 9.
“An evolutionary perspective on cognition: through a
glass lightly,” review of Kim Sterelny, Thought in a hostile world: the
evolution of human cognition, in Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed.
Sci., Elsevier, 35 (2004) 721-7.
Forthcoming:
Hungarian, Japanese, and
Chinese editions of Darwin's Dangerous
Idea
Finnish and Turkish
editions of Consciouness Explained
“From Typo to Thinko...” S.
Levinson & P. Jaisson (Eds.), Culture
and evolution.
“Consciousness: How much is that in real
Money?” for R. Gregory, ed., Oxford
Companion to the Mind, on consciousness,
“What RoboMary knows,” Final draft for Torin
Alter ed., Knowledge Argument volume.
“What I want to
be when I grow up,” an essay in When We
Were Kids, published by Pantheon (hardcover)/Vintage (paperback).
“How has
“Conditions
of Personhood” in The Identities of
Persons ed. A. Rorty, to be reprinted in an anthology by W. O. Stephens,
Prentice-Hall.
“What I want to be when I grow up,” an
essay in When We Were Kids, published by Pantheon
(hardcover)/Vintage(paperback).
“Astride the Two Cultures: a
letter to Richard Powers, updated,” forthcoming in a volume on Richard Powers.
A bibliographical essay
about Richard Dawkins for a Companion to
Evolution to be published by Harvard University Press in 2006.
“Natural Freedom,” in Metaphilosophy, to be published in July 2005.
“Introduction: Towards a Science of
Volition,” co-authored with Wolfgang Prinz and Natalie Sebanz, for Disorders of Volition volume to be
published by MIT Press in 2005.
Interviewed
by William Uzgalis at the APA in
SELECTED RECENT COLLOQUIA
AND INVITED LECTURES:
“First Person Plural:
Philosophical Problems of Consciousness with Clinical Implications,” The New
Traumatology Conference,
“Discovering Who We Can
Be: Conversation and Enlightenment,” presented at UNESCO Philosophical Forum on
Richard Rorty,
Keynote Address, Of Apples
and Origins II,
Panel Discussion on Religion
and Science, EPIIC,
Reply to paper on Free Will
by Timothy O’Connor, Central APA Meeting,
“Recent Work on
Consciousness,” Harvard Students’ Philosophy Colloquium,
“A Perspective on the
Dynamics/Computation Debate,” Santa Fe Institute,
Reply to Hardcastle, Society
for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting,
“The Vision Experiments of
Grimes and Rensink,” Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting,
“The Emergence of Meaning,”
Lunchtime Lectures, Royal Geographic Society,
“Reflections on Language and
Mind,” Language and Thought Conference,
“Consciousness Explained:
Towards a Philosophy of Mind,” British Association Symposium on Brain and
Consciousness,
“How to do Other Things with
Words,” Royal Institute of Philosophy, Conference on the Philosophy of
Language, University of Reading, England, Sept. 22, 1996; Macalester
University, Oct. 22, 1996; University of Houston, Nov. 21, 1996
“The Myth of Double
Transduction,”
“Consciousness: More Like
Fame than Television,” Carleton University, Oct. 24, 1996; Portuguese Philosophical
Society, Lisbon, Feb. 20, 1997; Wellesley College, March 3, 1997
Russell Sage Foundation
Workshop on Subjective Well-Being, organized by D. Kahneman, Princeton
University, Nov. 1-2, 1996
Opening Presentation, AAAI
Symposium on Embodied Cognition, MIT,
Public talk, Sydney Writers’
Festival,
“Making Tools for Thinking,”
“Where is the Mind? Not in
the Brain,”
“Faith in the Truth,”
Amnesty Lecture,
“Reflections on
“The Biology of Morality,”
Mind, Brain & Behavior program,
“The Case of the Tell-Tale
Traces: A Mystery Solved; a Skyhook Grounded,” Comments on Behe,
“Is Your Mind In Your
Brain?,”
“Is Your Mind In Your
Brain?” Sigma Tau Lectures, Istituto San Raffaele,
“Cultural Collision Zones:
Why Darwin's Idea is Dangerous” Wooten Lecture,
“The Evolution of
Evaluators,” The International School of Economics, Workshop on Evolution and
Economics, Siena, Italy, June 26-July 6
“Complexity and the Mind,”
New England Complex System Institute,
“The Myth of Double
Transduction” Neurosurgical Grand Rounds,
A teleconference interview
on artificial intelligence and neuroscience, in
“Are We Becoming Machines?”
Jackson Lecturer at
“Cultural Evolution: Myths
and Misunderstandings,”
“The Myth of Double
Transduction,” Grand Rounds Lecture Series at the Psychiatry Department of New
York Hospital--Cornell Medical Center, New York, September 24, 1997
“Can Machines Think? Deep
Blue and Beyond,” October 8, a talk given at Stuudium General Maastricht, The
Netherlands
“The Orientation of Modern
Man,” a panel discussion at the Millenium Conferences, King Baudouin
Foundation, Opera House, Brussels, Belgium, October, 1997
Tans Lecture/Dutch Science
& Technology Week,
“Tools for Creativity,”
Conference on Human and Artificial Creativity (organized by Douglas
Hofstadter),
“Downhill synthesis and
reverse engineering,” Human Frontier Science Program Workshop V, Evolutionary
Perspectives on Brain and Mind,
“Animals learn from
experience, but can they recollect the experience they learn from?” Cambridge
Philosophical Society, King’s College,
“Tools for Brains: How
Technology Created Human Consciousness,” Hewlett-Packard Mathematical Sciences
Lecture,
“The Creation of Creativity”
Distinguished Fellow Medal lecture at
“The Myth of Double
Transduction” Philosophy Dept,
“Cog and Artificial
Intelligence” and AEvolution of Evaluators: a Perspective on Multiple
Personality Disorder,” Royal College of Psychiatry Philosophy Interest Group
meeting, Blue Mountains,
“Brains and Minds” Feb 16,
School of Biological Sciences,
“Hunting for Skyhooks,
Discovering Cranes” Humanities West Conference:
“Cultural evolution: Current
Controversies and Confusions,”
“Hunting for Skyhooks,
Discovering Cranes” University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Winter Symposium in
Evolutionary Biology, March 9, 1998
“Modeling Creativity: Some
Speculations about the Speed of Thought,” Carnegie Mellon, Distinguished Fellow
Lecture,
“
“Things about things,”
Inaugural Benjamin and Anne A. Pinkel Endowed (Mind Brain Paradigm) Lecture,
“Is Evolution an Algorithmic
Process?”
“Are you out of the loop?
Where and when in the brain does the deciding happen?” October 13,
1998Cognitive Science Department Lecture at
“Memes: Myths, Misgivings,
Misunderstandings,” Chapel Hill Colloquium,
“Cultural evolution:
artificial and unconscious selection,” Science Master’s Symposium,
“Why
“Is Evolution an Algorithmic
Process?” Danz Professorship Lecture,
“Cultural Evolution,”
Lecture at UC
“Things about Things,”
lecture at
“Evolution as an Algorithmic
Process,” Lecture at UC Davis, CA, Geology Dept.,
“The Evolution of Culture,”
Charles Simonyi Lecture,
“Cultural Evolution: Some
myths and misgivings about memes,” lecture for Dennett’s Mind: A conference on
the Philosophy of Daniel C. Dennett, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced
Study and the Hungarian Philosophical Association, Budapest, Hungary, March 25,
1999
“Evolution and Creativity:
Cranes vs. Skyhooks,” Darwin Across the Disciplines Conference, University of
“The Evolution of Culture,”
Inaugural lecture of the University College Dublin Philosophy Society,
“The Hard Question: And Then
What Happens? A Fantasy Echo Theory of Consciousness,”Consciousness in
“In Praise of Mistakes,”
commencement address to
Discussant, Conference on
Memes and Cultural Evolution, King’s College,
“Consciousness: real
problems and mythical problems,” Il Gulbenkian Symposium on Cognitive
Neuroscience: Consciousness, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia,
“The Zombic Hunch:
Extinction of an Intuition?” Royal
“Conditions of identity for
memes,” at Fyssen Symposium,
“
Chair, Special Session
arranged by the APA committee on International Cooperation,
“The Mind at the
Millennium,”
Visiting lecturer to Ned
Block’s seminar at
“Reading John Horgan’s The
End of Science,” at the “Ends of Civilization” meeting at the Nantucket
Atheneum,
“The Good Problem: and Then
What Happens? (The Real Problems of Consciousness),” “The Mind,” International
Meeting, The
“In
“Did
“Mensch-Maschine,” at the
Salons Kunst.Wissenschaft,
“Prospects for a Darwinian
Theory of Cultural Evolution,” Distinguished Lecture at
“Do we need, and can we
have, a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution?”
“Objets Trouvés: the role of
Collision in Evolution,” Evalife Workshop,
“Could there be a Darwinian
Account of Human Creativity?”
“Are we Explaining
Consciousness Yet?” CUNY lecture,
“The Evolution of Human
Freedom,”
“Evolution and Human
Creativity,” Universita' di Roma, Sapienza, Dept. of Philosophy,
“The Fantasy of a
First-Person Science of Consciousness,” Jowett Society,
“Evolution and Human
Agency,” Dept. of Zoology Colloquium,
“Did Hal Commit Murder?”
“The Fantasy of a
First-Person Science of Consciousness,”
“Artificial life and the
evolution of language,” Human Behavior and Evolution Society,
“The Hard Problem is not the
Hard Question,” Consciousness Club, Cognitive Neurosciences Group,
“In
“Explaining the 'Magic' of
Consciousness: What happens to the 'Audience' and what happens 'Backstage,'“
Erba lecture,
“Can there be a first-person
science of consciousness?”, “The Hard Question, not the Hard Problem”, “Are
qualia what make life worth living?”, and “If you make yourself really smaill,
you can externalize virtually everything,” for the Jean Nicod Lectures, Institut
Jean-Nicod,
“How to protect the
scientific investigation of consciousness from ideological debate,” “
“Evolution, Culture, and
Truth,” Inaugural lecture for University Professorship,
“How scientists should
explain the 'magic' of consciousness,” Scripps Institute,
Lecture (no title) at TED
(Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference,
“The relationshiop of truth
and experience,” EPA symposium,
“Explaining the 'Magic' of
Consciousness,”
“Human and evolutionary
engineering: similarities and differences,” Symposium: The Philosophical Bases
of Biological Thought, at
“The 'magic' of
consciousness-and how to explain it,” Research Seminar in Cognition, Brain, and
Behavior, Psychology 3340r.,
“Human and evolutionary
engineering: similarities and differences,” Symposium: The Philosophical Bases
of Biological Thought, 150th Anniversary Celebration, Tufts University, April
21, 2002
“Can there be a
'first-person' science of consciousness?”
“Problems with imagining
consciousness,” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Distinguished Lecture, Woods
Hole, MA,
“Explaining the 'magic' of
consciousness,“ and responses to 9 papers on Dennett's philosophy, Muensteraner
Vorlesungen zur Philosophie, Muenster, Germany, May 28&29, 2002.
“On interactions between
genetic and cultural evolution,” Conference of the Association of Students in
Psychology at the
“Explaining the 'magic' of
consciousness,“ Institute for Philosophy,
“Darwinian approaches to
cultural evolution,” the New Bulgarian University Institute for Cognitive
Science,
“Evolution in animal culture
and human culture,” Collegium Budapest,
“Explaining the 'magic' of
consciousness,” inaugural lecture,
“Building up to
Intentionality,” Intentionality: Past and Future Conference,
“The Self as a
Responding--and Responsible--Artifact,” Conference on “The Self: From Soul to Brain,”
The
“The Cartesian Theater and Conscious Volition,”
Philosophy & Neuroscience Conference,
“A third person approach to consciousness,”
“Explaining the magic of consciousness,” “Are Qualia what make life worth
living?” “What Mary the Robot Knows,” “When—and where—do we decide?”
“Consciousness as Fame in the Brain” The Daewoo Lectures,
“Human & Evolutionary Engineering: Some
Similarities and Differences,” Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics,
“Freedom Evolves,” Skeptics Society, Caltech,
“Avoiding Catastrophes in Deterministic Universes,”
University of Southern
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of consciousness,” TED
(Technology Entertainment and Design) Conference,
“Freedom
Evolves,”
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of consciousness,” Tufts
Campus Visit, Undergraduate Experience,
“Problems and Prospects for
Memes in Explanations of Human Culture,” Culture and Cognition/ Evolution and
Human Adaptation Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 14,
2003.
“Avoiding Catastrophes in
Deterministic Universes,” one of the Santa Fe Institute Public Lecture Series
lectures,
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
consciousness,” Spencer-Leavitt lecture at
Teleconference with Prof.
Dale Turner and his class, in CA, May 29, 2003
Keynote Address,
ASSC(Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness),
“Real Consciousness, Real
Freedom and ‘Real Magic’”
“Real Consciousness, Real
Freedom and ‘Real Magic’” Prince
Edward Island, Oct 2-4, 2003
“Real Consciousness, Real
Freedom and ‘Real Magic’” IV Meeting Italian American Philosophy,
“’Is’ and ‘Ought’ – a
Conference Overview,” The Place of Value in a World of Facts, a Public
Conference, CPNSS, London School of Economics, Oct 10, 2003.
“Imagining color: what
RoboMary Knows”
“Rational avoidance in a
deterministic world,” Rational Choice Workshop for faculty,
“The Fantasy of a First
Person Science of Consciousness,” The Yale Perlis Lecture Series,
“Consciousness: more like
fame than television,” at the
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
Consciousness” at
“Freedom Evolves,” CSS
Distinguished Lecture Series talk at
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
Consciousness,”
“Explaining the ‘magic’ of
Consciousness,”
“The
Far Side of the Self: And then what happens?” The Brain and Its Self: The New
Frontier of Neuroscience Conference,
“Qualia
Questioned: Once More With Feeling” Keynote Address, Toward a Science of
Consciousness conference,
JOHNS
BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY (June)
“Philosophers, Zombies, and Feelings: The illusions of ‘first-person’ approaches to consciousness” “Petrus Hispanus Lectures”, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, July 8, 2004
“Rational Avoidance in a Deterministic World” (themes from my recent book, Freedom Evolves), “Petrus Hispanus Lectures”, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, July 8, 2004
“Philosopher’s,
Zombies, and Feelings: The illusions of ‘first-person’ approaches to a science
of consciousness,” “Evolution, language and cognition” workshop, International
University Menendez y Pelayo and the
“Freedom
Evolves,” public lecture, jointly sponsored by the Berkeley Philosophy
Department, the
“The Personal Level and the Decomposition of Qualia,” at Berkeley (ICBS), September 17, 2004
“The self and intentional
action,” Festschrift in honor of Prof. John C. Marshall,
“My body has a
mind of its own” Wilder Penfield Lecture,
“Computers as
Tools for Philosophers,” APA Barwize Prize Award Lecture,
“Religion as a
natural phenomenon,” Creapole School of Design,
EMBL (European
Molecular Biology Laboratory) lecture to the Science & Society Committee,
“Explaining the
‘Magic’ of Consciousness,”
“My body has a
mind of its own,” 2nd Mind and World Conference,