Blogs about: Daniel Dennett
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Dawkins & Dennett
A recent discussion held at Oxford. (The picture above is Darwin, not Dennett :~) )… more →
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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
wrote 1 day ago: Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America’s foremost thinkers. In t … more →
Genius as phosphorus
wrote 4 days ago: With the theatrics surrounding the announcement of the sequencing of the human genome, genes yielded … more →
What if you're wrong?
wrote 4 days ago: When I first saw this video sometime in 2007, as a fundamental Christian, I thought Richard Dawkins … more →
Crick's Deepity
wrote 6 days ago: Monday James Watson and Francis Crick The least interesting views on almost any philosophical questi … more →
Interview with Dan Dennett
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wrote 1 week ago: Daniel “Dan” Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist. His … more →
The qualia of customer experience
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wrote 1 week ago: We cannot truly understand what our customers experience. But we can understand how they behave. If … more →
Religion and Jazz...
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been reading through Daniel Dennett’s book Breaking the Spell. In the book D … more →
Darwin, Wallace, Evolution, and Atheism (Part II of Bears, whales, God, Darwin, and Peter Hitchens)
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wrote 2 weeks ago: [For Part I, see here] Peter Hitchens, younger brother of the late Christopher, says in the notoriou … more →
Daniel Dennett, "Intuition Pumps and Other Tools For Thinking."
wrote 2 weeks ago: Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times has written an interesting profile of Daniel Dennett that … more →
What I Like About Daniel Dennett: The Cost of Naturalism
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Daniel Dennett is one of those dreaded “New Atheists.” He is also a leading figure in th … more →
Objectivism in the June 2013 Reason Papers: part 6 of 6
wrote 3 weeks ago: The sixth and final Objectivist item in the June 2013 issue of RP is a longish review essay by Eyal … more →
Video: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett
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wrote 3 weeks ago: A wonderful conversation between four great men who in this video I like to call the Four Musketeers … more →
Daniel Dennett - "Thank Goodness!" (2006)
wrote 1 month ago: …For another, we now have quite solid grounds (e.g., the recently released Benson study at Har … more →
Atheist, But Not New
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wrote 1 month ago: By Ian Tingen I am an atheist. Even so, I tend not to discuss it openly – although I am making … more →
Do I care what others believe?
wrote 1 month ago: Do I care what others believe? When I was a Christian, I used to wonder this myself about atheists. … more →
William Lane Craig and atheist Daniel Dennett discuss cosmology and fine-tuning
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wrote 1 month ago: This audio records a part of the Greer-Heard debate in 2007, between prominent atheist Daniel Dennet … more →
Memes and Topoi, Part 6: TED Talks
wrote 1 month ago: TED Talks are neat. The idea, as TED’s about page puts it, is that “TED is a nonprofit d … more →
Video: Daniel Dennett - Free Will, Determinism and Evolution
wrote 1 month ago: Beautiful lecture by the scientific philosopher Daniel Dennett, simplifying the magical myth we asso … more →
Thomas Nagel and materialism
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wrote 1 month ago: I was reading a post yesterday on the Signs of the Times about Thomas Nagel and thought about the id … more →
