June 22, 2009
Curriculum Vitae
DANIEL C. DENNETT
PERSONAL:
Born,
Married to Susan Bell
Dennett; two children.
ADDRESS:
EDUCATION:
B.A.,
D. Phil. (philosophy),
Honorary
Degrees:
Doctor of Humane Letters,
Doctor of Letters,
Doctor of Science, McGill, 2007
AWARDS:
A.P.A. Barwise Prize,
December 2004
Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association, 2004
Bertrand Russell Society
Award,
Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 2006
Richard Dawkins Prize, Atheist
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,
Petrus Hispanus Lectures, Faculdade de Letras de
Lisboa,
The Patten Lectures,
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).
Association for the
Scientific Study of Consciousness (President, 2006)
The Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Center for Inquiry
(Fellow)
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.
ADVISORY
BOARDS:
TED (Technology,
Entertainment and Design) Brain Trust
MNI (
CFI (Center for Inquiry),
Ewha Woman's University,
HAS (
Lifeboat Foundation Scientific
Advisory Board
CFI Naturalism Project Advisory
Board
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,
Miguens, Sofia, 2002, Uma Teoria Fisicalista do Conteúdo e da Consciência, D.Dennett e os
debates da filosofia da mente, Campo das letres,
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),
Symons, John, 2005, (in French) Dennett: un naturalisme en chantier, Philosophies Presses
Universitaires de France,
McCarthy, Joan, 2006, Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self, Contemporary Studies in
Philosophy and the Human Sciences, Prometheus Books, July 2007.
“Leading Figures in Academia Series (1): Daniel C.
Dennett,” American-Chinese Society &
Culture, vol. 10, no. 2 (Issue #18) Dec 2007
Zawidzki, Tadeusz, 2007, Dennett, Oneworld publications,
Joao de Fernandes Teixeira, 2008, A Mente Segundo Dennett (The Mind According to Dennett), Perspectiva,
David L. Thompson,
Daniel Dennett, Contemporary American Thinkers series,
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; excerpt from “A Hearing for Libertarianism:
Kane’s Model of Indeterministic Decision-making,” reprinted in Free Will, Critical Concepts in Philosophy,
Vol III, Free Will: Liberatarianism, Alternative Possibilities and Moral
Responsibility, ed. J.M. Fischer, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
June 2005, pp. 109-37; translated in
Italian and published by Raffaello Cortina Editore (2004); translated in Dutch
and published by Uitgeverij Contact,
Amsterdam, 2004; translated in Japanese and published by Yamagata Hiroo, 2005.
Sweet Dreams:
Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, MIT Press, 2005; translated in Italian and published
by Raffaello Cortina Editore (2006); translated in Spanish and published by
Katz, Buenos Aires, 2006; translated in Polish and published by Prószyński
i S-ka, 2007; translated in German and published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt,
2007.
Breaking the
Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Viking Press, 2006; translated in Dutch and published by Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 2006;
translated in Finnish and published by Terra Cognita, Helsinki, 2006;
translated in Italian and published by Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2007;
translated in Portugese and published by Editora Globo, 2006; translated in Spanish and published by Katz
Editores, Madrid, 2007; translated in Greek, 2007; translated in Polish and
published by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsawa 2008.
Dove nascono
le idée, translated by Francesca
Garofoli, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2006.
Selected Recent Articles: (a complete
bibliography is available at http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettdbiblio.htm)
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; reprinted in Biomedical
Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology,
ed. David Steinberg, M.D., University Press of New England, 2007, pp. 168-71.
“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.
“Gilbert Ryle’s last
letter to Dennett,” The Electronic
Journal of Analytic Philosophy, (Special Issue on The Philosophy of
“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
“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.
“The Self as a Responding—and Responsible—Artifact,”
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); translated into Italian and published in Discipline
Filosofiche, XIV (2), 2004, pp. 45-62; in S. Franchi, G. Guzeldere (eds.),
Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds. Artificial Intelligence from Automata
to Cyborgs, M.I.T. Press,
“’Epiphenomenal’
Qualia?” reprinted from Ch. 12 of Consciousness
Explained, in There’s Something About
Mary, Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument,
P. Ludlow, Y. Nagasawa, D. Stoljar, eds., A Bradford book, MIT Press,
2005
“Geography Lessons,” letter to the Editor, New York Times, Book Reviews, Sunday, February 20, 2005, Section 7,
page 6, column 3.
“Dangerous Ideas: The Sophia Interview with Daniel C. Dennett,” Sophia, The
“Dennett’s Dangerous Ideas,” an interview by Julian Baggini in “The
Intractables,” a special issue of the Philosopher’s magazine, Issue 30,
2nd quarter, 2005, pp. 52-56.
“Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural
Grafting,” with M. Greene, R. Faden, et al, Science,
Vol. 309, July 15, 2005, pp. 385-6.
“Show Me the Science,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, Sunday, August 28, 2005, p. 11.
Entry in Edge,
The
“Comparing apples to oranges: Who does the framing?”
with Richard Griffin, Behavioral and
Brain Sciences (2005) 28:5, p. 656.
“The Kitzmiller Decision,” by Dawkins, Dennett, Kurtz, Jones, Ridley, 2005.
“There
aren’t enough minds to house the population explosion of memes,” Edge, The
World Question Center , 2005.
“Natural Freedom,” Metaphilosophy,
vol. 36, No. 4, July 2005, pp. 449-59.
2006
“From Typo to
Thinko: When Evolution Graduated to Semantic Norms,” S. Levinson & P. Jaisson (Eds.), Evolution and Culture, A Fyssen
Foundation Symposium, A Bradford
Book, The MIT Press,
“Two Steps Closer on Consciousness,” Paul Churchland, Contemporary Philosophy in
Focus, Brian L. Keeley (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.
193-209.
“Common-Sense Religion,” The Chronicle Review, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 20, 2006, pp. B6-8.
“The Harsh Light of Science, Why a Scientific Study of
Religion is Necessary,” SEED, Feb/Mar
2006, pp. 54-7.
An entry in What
We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of
Creativity, ed. John Brockman, Harper Perennial, 2006, pp. 124-7.
“The Selfish
Gene As A Philosophical Essay,” Richard
Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, A. Grafen, M. Ridley,
eds., Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 101-15.
“The Hoax of Intelligent Design and How It Was
Perpetrated,” Intelligent Thought:
Science Versus The Intelligent Design Movement, ed. John Brockman, Vintage
Books, 2006, pp. 33-49.
“Consciousness: How Much is that in Real Money?”
translated into Slovak for Kritika &
Kontext, No. 31, Záhada ľudského Vedomia On Consciousness, with an
interview, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, pp. 80-7.
“Toward a Science of Volition,” with W. Prinz and N.
Sebanz, in Disorders of Volition,
eds. N. Sebanz and W. Prinz, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 2006, pp. 1-16.
“Quining Qualia,” translated into German and reprinted
in Thomas Metzinger, ed., Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes, Band 1:
“Show Me the Science,” in The Best American Science and Nature
Writing 2006, ed. Brian Greene, Houghton Mifflin,
“Response to Daniel Levine,”
Tikkun Magazine, November/December
2006, pp. 54-7.
“No Vegetables, Please,”
“Thank Goodness
Not God on Thanksgiving,”
“Thank
Goodness!” published at http://edge.org, Nov 2006; reprinted in Freethought Today, December 2006, pp. 12-13; reprinted in Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 31, Issue 2,
March/April 2007, pp. 42-3.
“The Gift of Perspective,”
“Protecting
Democracy Comes Before Promoting Faith,”
“Not Yet The
Majority But No Longer Silent,”
“Daniel C. Dennett responds,” to Richard Sosis’ review
of Breaking the Spell, in Free Inquiry, December 2006/January
2007, vol. 27, No. 1. p. 60.
“There Aren’t Enough Minds to House the Population
Explosion of Memes,” What Is Your
Dangerous Idea?, ed. J. Brockman, Simon & Schuster, 2006, pp. 191-8.
“A continuum of mindfulness,” D. Dennett & R.
McKay, Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
29, 2006, pp. 353-4.
2007
“Atheism and Evolution,” ed. Michael Martin, The
“Relying on Faith Instead of Facts Brought Moral
Calamity,”
“A Clever Robot,” Time Magazine,
January 18th, 2007.
“’God’ or ‘Allah’?” Washington Post
online, On Faith, January 26th, 2007.
Letter to the Editor, Times Literary Supplement, February 2, 2007, p. 17.
“Open Letter to H. Allen Orr,” Edge 202, February12th, 2007.
“Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett
and Hacker,” in Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language,
ed. D. Robinson, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, pp. 73-95; to be translated into
German, Suhrkamp Verlag publishers.
“The God Delusion,” Letter to the Editor, The
“My body has a mind of its own,” in Distributed Cognition and the Will:
Individual Volition and Social Context, eds. D. Ross, D. Spurrett, H.
Kincaid, G.L. Stephens, MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 2007, pp. 93-100.
Letter to the Editor,
2008
Introduction to What Are You Optimistic About? Today’s
Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better, ed. John Brockman,
Harper Perrennial, 2007, pp. xvii-xxii; also appears in The Wall Street Journal Online, January 25th, 2008.
“How to Protect Human
Dignity from Science,” in Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays
Commissioned by The President’s Council on Bioethics, March 2008, pp. 39-59
.
“Commentary on
Kraynak," in Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays
Commissioned by The President’s Council on Bioethics, March 2008, pp. 83-8.
Letter to the Editor, The
“Whole-Body
Apoptosis,” in Artifact, July 2008,
pp. 1-4.
“Is religion a threat
to rationality and science?” in eG
Weekly, The
An entry in Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5
questions, ed. Luciano Floridi, Automatic Press, 2008, pp. 57-9.
Autobiographical
Essay, Part 1, Philosophy Now, July/August 2008, pp. 22-6; Part 2,
Issue 69, September/October 2008, pp. 21-5; Part 3, November/December 2008, pp.
24-5.
“Descartes’s
Argument from Design,” The Journal of
Philosophy, Volume CV, No. 7, July 2008, pp. 333-45.
“Astride the Two Cultures: a
letter to Richard Powers, updated,” Intersections:
Essays on Richard Powers, eds. S.J. Burn and P. Dempsey, Dalkey Archive
Press, Champaign and London, 2008, pp. 151-60.
An entry in “The Years of Thinking Dangerously” New
Scientist 20/27 December 2008, p 71.
Excerpts from Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and Consciousness
Explained, in The Oxford Book of
Modern Science Writing, Richard Dawkins, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2008,
pp. 254-8.
An entry in What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
- The Book, HarperCollins (US); also online: http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html#dennett
An interview and biographical sketch in Les
Nouveaux Psys, Catherine Meyer, ed., edition des Arènes, 2008, pp. 591-613.
“Trois questions à
2009
An entry in Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions,
Patrick Grim, ed., Automatic Press, 2009, p 25-30.
“Intentional Systems Theory,” The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, B. McLaughlin, A.
Beckermann, S. Walter, eds., OUP, 2009, pp. 339-50.
An entry in “For & Against: Is the theory of
evolution compatible with divine creation?” BBCKnowledge, April 2009,
issue 4, p. 65.
“Banishing “I” and “we” from accounts of
metacognition,” with Bryce Huebner, BBS (2009)
32:2, pp. 148-9.
“
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.
of Kim Sterelny, Thought in a hostile world: the evolution of human cognition, “An evolutionary perspective on cognition: through a
glass lightly,” in Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci., Elsevier,
35 (2004) 721-7.
of Nicholas Humphrey, “Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness, “A daring reconnaissance of
red territory,”, Brain (2007), 130,
592-5.
of Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, in Free Inquiry, “Off Come the Gloves,”, Dec 2006/Jan 2007, vol 27, No. 1, pp. 64-6.
Forthcoming:
Hungarian, Japanese, and
Chinese editions of Darwin's Dangerous
Idea
Finnish and Turkish editions
of Consciousness Explained
“What RoboMary knows,” Final
draft for Torin Alter ed., Knowledge Argument volume.
“Conditions of Personhood” in The Identities of Persons ed. A. Rorty, to be reprinted in an
anthology by W. O. Stephens, Prentice-Hall.
A bibliographical essay
about Richard Dawkins for a Companion to
Evolution to be published by Harvard University Press in 2006.
Interviewed by William Uzgalis at the APA in Boston, December 29, 2004,
to appear in a special issue of Minds and Machines.
Sweet Dreams; French, German, Turkish and Japanese editions
Breaking the
Spell; Finnish and Turkish editions.
“Some observations on the psychology of thinking about
free will,” for Baer, Baumeister and Kaufmann, eds., Psychology and Free Will, forthcoming.
“Fun and Games
in Fantasyland,” commentary on Fodor, “Against Determinism.”
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, March 27-30, 1996.
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, May 1, 1996.
“A Perspective on the Dynamics/Computation Debate,”
Santa Fe Institute, May 14, 1996.
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, Nov. 9-11, 1996
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,” March 8, 1998 and
“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?” October 12,
1998
“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, October 15, 1998,
“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., January 15,
1999
“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, April 23, 1999
“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, December 27-30, 1999,
“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, February 24, 2000.
“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,
November 17, 2000.
“The Evolution of Human Freedom,”
“Evolution and Human Creativity,” Universita' di Roma,
Sapienza, Dept. of Philosophy, April 17, 2001
“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, March 8, 2002
“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, May 2, 2002.
“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, June 18, 2002.
“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,
Wednesday, February 12, 2003.
“Freedom Evolves,” Skeptics Society, Caltech, Sunday
February 23, 2003.
“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,
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,
“What Explanatory Gap?” Nikola Grahek Memorial
Conference,
“Philosophers, Zombies, and Feelings: The illusions of
‘first-person’ approaches to consciousness,” Harvard review of Philosophy lecture,
April 8, 2005
“Religion as a natural phenomenon,” NEI William D.
Hamilton Lecture,
“
“Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,”
“Freedom Evolves,”
“Religion as a natural phenomenon,” School of
Psychology,
“Religion as a natural phenomenon,”
“What Do We Think With?” International Conference on
Thought, Language and Action, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Philosophy
Dept., Bogota, Colombia, Aug 30-Sept 5, 2005
“Evolution, Freedom and Society,” First World
Conference on the Future of Science,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” IDEAS
“Explaining the ‘Magic’ of Consciousness,”
“Why is
“Determinism, Freedom and Society,” Distinguished
Speaker, The Gordon Institute,
“How could
the brain be the seat of consciousness?” Cognitive Science Dept,
“
“When should we ask ‘what is it like’ to be an
animal?” ESF Exploratory Workshop, Centre International de Rencontres,
“Are we explaining consciousness yet?” “Breaking the
Spell,” and “Freedom Evolves,” Realizing Life to the Fullest: Skeptics and
Secular Humanist Cruise,
“Philosophy as Naïve Anthropology: Comment on Bennett
and Hacker,” American Philosophical Association Meeting,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” (TAM4) Randi Conference, “Science in Politics and the Politics of
Science”,
Participant, panel honoring Marcel Kinsbourne,
International Neuropsychological Society, 34th Annual Meeting,
Boston Marriot Copley Place Hotel, February 2, 2006
“Breaking the Spell,” Culture and Cognition program at
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,”
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Politics and Prose,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Fermilab,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Seminary Coop Bookstore,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,”
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Free Library of
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” TED,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Skeptics Society, Caltech, February 26, 2006
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” Elliot Bay Book Company,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,”
“Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness,” History
& Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science Colloquium,
“Freedom Evolves—A Dangerous Idea?” Patten Lecture at
the
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Patten Lecture,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Royal Society of
Arts Lecture,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Playfair Lecture,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,”
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,”
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,”
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,”
“Looking under
the hood: what do we find when we “reverse engineer” religions?”
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” public lecture,
sponsored by the Center for Naturalism, the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, and
the Harvard Secular Society, at the Harvard Science Center, April 4, 2006
“Darwin, Meaning & Truth: Examining the Evolution
and Future of Human Religions (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon)”
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” guest lecturer at
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” First Dean’s
Forum,
A discussion re: “What I Believe but Cannot Prove,”
Harvard Bookstore,
“Computers as Prostheses for the Imagination,”
Computers & Philosophy, an International Conference,
“Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” keynote speaker at Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference
(HBES), “Teaching Science in the 21st Century,” University of
Pennsylvania Psychology Department, June 10th, 2006
“How could
the brain be the seat of consciousness?” The 1st Chandaria Lecture,
“Consciousness: How Science Changes the Subject,” Presidential Address, Scientific Study of
Consciousness Meeting,
“An evolutionary perspective on religions,” Summer
Hard Problem Program of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,
MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, July 14, 2006
“The domestication of the wild memes of religion,” The
2nd World Conference on the Future of Science,
“Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” PordenoneLegge,
“The Excellent Adventure of Hubert, Yorick and
Dennett,” 40th
“The Domestication of Wild Religions: How Reflection
Drove the Adaptations,” International Conference on the Evolution of Religion,
“Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” 4th Darwin Day celebration: “
“The Evolution of Religion,” The Future of Atheism: A
Dialogue,
“Domesticating the Wild Memes of Religion,”
Greer-Heard Forum,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” National Film
Board and Université de Montreal, March 1, 2007.
“How could the Brain be the Seat of
Consciousness?” CAS/Millercomm Lecture,
“Domesticating the Wild Memes of Religion,” Annual
Philosophy Public Lecture,
“Domesticating the Wild Memes of Religion,” The
“Meaning and Morality:
“From Animal to Person: The Evolution of Human
Culture,” Great Minds at Work Conference,
“Free will and determinism,”
“Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,” The Danish Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
“Varieties of Content,” “Concepts: Content and
Constitution, A symposium,”
Commencement address, McGill Convocation Ceremony,
“From Animal to Person: the Evolution of Culture,”
“If the brain is the mind, can we have free will?”
Eddy Lecture,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Eddy Lecture,
“Good Reasons to ‘Believe’ in God,” Keynote address at
Atheist Alliance International Convention, September 29th, 2007
Opening remarks at the World Congress in
Moderator at meeting, World Congress in
“Genetic determinism, neuroscience, and free will,”
Social Issues Roundtable, Society for Neuroscience,
“Whole-Body Apoptosis and the Meanings of Lives,”
Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity, The Human & The Humanities Conference,
Duke University, November 10, 2007
“The evolution of evitability: what is determined is
not inevitable,” Five College Faculty Seminar,
“Breaking the Spell,” at PEN, January 31, 2008
“The Evolution of Evitability: How we came to have free will and
responsibility,”
A series of seminars on “Human intelligence with no
skyhooks allowed: How our minds are the products–and producers–of multi-level
evolutionary processes,”
"From
Animal to Person: how cultural evolution furnishes our minds with thinking
tools,” Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, March 7th, 2008
"
“Religion as a
Natural Phenomenon,”
“The Evolution of Evitability: How we came to have
free will and responsibility,” Minnesota State University Mankato, April 4th,
2008
“From Animal to Person: How Cultural Evolution Builds
our Minds,”
“From Animal to
Person: How Cultural Evolution Builds our Minds,”
"Religion is the greatest threat to rationality and scientific
progress that we face," debate with Lord Winston, AGORA, Guardian,
A talk at the
A talk at the
“From Animal to Person: the role of culture in human evolution,”
Cognitive Science and Language Interdisciplinary Master,
“Innovation versus Evolution,” with Jorge Wagensberg,
Dialogue Series hosted by the Foundation “la Caixa” at the
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,”
“How Mindless Algorithms Build Minds,” Keynote
Lecture, The Human Algorithm: What Do Our Minds Compute?
“Science of Morality,” World Science Festival
“What It Means To Be Human,” World Science Festival
Summit, May 31st, 2008
“From Animal to Person,” Mind and Societies public
conference, Universitè de Quebéc à Montréal Summer School, Montreal, June 27th,
2008
“The Hurley Model of Humour—An Introduction,” Music,
Language and Mind Conference,
“From Animal to Person: How Cultural Evolution Builds
Human Minds,” The Potter Memorial Lectureship and the Philip C. Holland
Lectureship,
“Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon,”
“Evolution and the Mind,” International VIB Ph.D.
Student
“Multiple Drafts Model,”
“Can we really close the Cartesian Theater?” The 2nd
A public talk on ‘
“Darwin and the Evolution of Reasons,” and Emperor Has
No Clothes Award recipient, Freedom from Religion Foundation,
“What is consciousness?” Science Festival
BergamoScienza,
“Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Max Planck
Institute for Experimental Medicine,
“Darwin and the Evolution of Reasons,”
Lecturer at
Panelist, One Nation Under God? The Role of Religion
in American Public Life,
“The Evolution of ‘Why’ as the Key to Free Will,”
Stanford Presidential Lecture,
“
“Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning,” In the
Light of Evolution: Two Centuries of Darwin, Distinctive Voices @ Beckman –
National Academies, Irvine, CA, January 15th, 2009
“Religion as a ‘natural’ phenomenon,” Public lecture
at
“
“
“
“The Evolution of Reasons,”
“The Evolution of Words and Other Memes,”
“
“
“
“The Human Soul, A Unique Biological Adaptation: The
Psychological Self,” The Religious-Secular Divide, Social Research Conference
at The New School, March 5th, 2009
“The Evolution of Belief,” Perrott Warrick Workshop on
Beliefs and Reason,
“Darwinian perspectives on religion,” British Humanist
Association,
Public lecture,
“Religion as a ‘natural’ phenomenon,”
“From animal to person: The evolution of us,” Rhodes
Lecture for SciFest Africa, March 27th, 2009
“How materialism transforms our understanding of
consciousness,”
“Cultural evolution: In what regards is it
Lecture on Academic Freedom,
“From Animal to Person,”
“Breaking the Spell,” Oakland University Department of
Philosophy, 4th Annual Burke Lecturer,
“Breaking the Spell,” Tufts Alumni
“
“Breaking the Spell,” Tufts Alumni
“
“Brains, Computers and Minds with Daniel Dennett,”
Harvard MBB 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series, April 21, 22 & 23, 2009
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“The cultural evolution of words and other thinking
tools,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 74th Symposium, May 29th,
2009