Daniel Dennett Biography

Daniel C. Dennett the author of Breaking the Spell Freedom Evolves and Darwin's Dangerous Idea and 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 a grandson. 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. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness was published in 2005. He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981 and 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.

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