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Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director Center for Cognitive Studies University Professor Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Tufts University Medford, MA 02155-7059 (617) 627-3297/fax: (617) 627-3952 daniel(dot)dennett(at)tufts(dot)edu curriculum vitae bibliography Recent and forthcoming papers On Faith postings at The Washington Post The winners of the 2009 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy Read a tribute read by Richard Dawkins while giving Dan Dennett an award “Is religion a threat to rationality and science?” in eG Weekly, The London Guardian, April 22^nd, 2008. Listen to a podcast of Dan Dennett at Agora's Science, Religion and Reason Debate in London, April 22nd, 2008 He also can be heard here, on the BBC - Radio 4 - Start the Week program, recorded April 21, 2008 Interview by IHU Online (Brazilian magazine) An animation of my DARWIN acronym in Latin, by Deniz Cem Önduygu A Greek version of the DARWIN acronym by Gerol Petruzella Excellent Tree of Life Diagram ¡Detengan a ese cuervo! (Entrevista a Daniel C. Dennett) | Desde el Exilio Desde el Exilio (front page) La nueva Ilustración Evolucionista / The new Evolutionary Enlightenment: ¡Detengan a ese cuervo! (Entrevista a Daniel C. Dennett) MBB (Harvard) Lecture references VIDEOS FROM DARWIN YEAR: TED Conference, March 16 2009: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny British Humanist Association, March 19th, 2009 Human Nature and Belief, Darwin Fest, Cambridge University, UK, July 8th 2009 Darwin's Legacy - Stanford University, October 13th, 2009 La Ciudad de las Ideas - Debate - Hitchens, Harris, Dennett vs Boteach, D'Souza, Taleb - November, 2009 La Ciudad de las Ideas – lecture – November, 2009 CUNY Panel discussion - Intelligent Design an Immoral Argument? - Daniel Dennett and John Haught, November 17th, 2009 BIG THINK videos Into the Classroom Media MORE VIDEOS: YouTube - Daniel Dennett lecture on "Free Will" (Edinburgh University) The Evolution of Confusion, AAI, 2009 Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior - 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series Breaking the Spell booktalk at Reed Secular Alliance, March, 2009 Debating Dinesh D'Souza at Tufts University, November 30th, 2007 Lecturing at Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0, October 31, 2007 Being interviewed on CCTV International, January 2nd, 2008 Check out this video version of the dramatization of "Where am I?" made in Holland Evolutionary Perspectives (Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker, Diamond, Adams)

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, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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.

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS ROBOTIC DOG?

REWARD for information! I found it in an antique shop in Paris. It was made in France in the 1950s, so I have named it Tati, in honor of Jacques Tati (whose classic film Mon Oncle captures the same era with the same ingenious and humorous use of technology). I do not know who made Tati, or why, and would be pleased to receive any substantiated information about its provenance.

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Highly recommended links:

Edge.org

The Brights

Butterflies and Wheels

Richard Dawkins

Life 32

Conway's Game of Life

The Mac version of Life

Polish translations of many of my articles (Click on this link and insert my name in the search engine)

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