Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett
	Dennett in 2006
Born	Daniel Clement Dennett III; March 28, 1942; Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Wesleyan University; Harvard University (AB); Hertford College, Oxford (DPhil);
Notable work	Consciousness Explained (1991); Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995); Breaking the Spell (2006);
Spouse	Susan Bell (m. 1962)
Awards	Jean Nicod Prize (2001); Mind & Brain Prize (2011); Erasmus Prize (2012);
Era	20th/21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy; New Atheism;
Institutions	Tufts University
Thesis	The Mind and the Brain (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Gilbert Ryle
Main interests	Philosophy of mind; cognitive science; free will; philosophy of religion;
Notable ideas	Heterophenomenology; Intentional stance; Intuition pump; Multiple drafts model; Greedy reductionism; Cartesian theater; Belief in belief; Free-floating rationale; Top-down vs bottom-up design; Cassette theory of dreams; Alternative neurosurgery; Sphexishness; Brainstorm machine; Deepity
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Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

As of 2017, he is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett is a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal and a co-founder of The Clergy Project.

A vocal atheist and secularist, Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

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