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Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett was the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Dennett has received more than 2,394,543 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Daniel Dennett is the 348th most popular philosopher (up from 393rd in 2019), the 961st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,112th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Philosopher.

Daniel Dennett is most famous for his theory of the "intentional stance," which is the idea that we can understand the beliefs and desires of an entity by imagining that it is a person with intentions.

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  • 46

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Freethoughtblogs.com
Daniel Dennett has died
The last time I met Dennett was at a Darwin Day event where we were a double bill. We had a good time, he told me stories about his heart surgery, mentioned that all he really wanted to do was get away to his farm and make apple cider, we got to talking about…
PZ Myers
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Freerepublic.com
Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as ‘programmes’ – obituary
Daniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit...
Telegraph (U.K.)
Friday, April 19, 2024
Slashdot.org
Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82
Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.
feedfeeder
Friday, April 19, 2024

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Daniel Dennett ranks 348 out of 1,081. Before him are Yi I, E. H. Carr, Wang Yangming, Hermann Cohen, Pietro Pomponazzi, and Richard Rorty. After him are Judith Butler, J. L. Austin, Pompeia Plotina, Wilhelm Windelband, Euclid of Megara, and René Girard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Daniel Dennett ranks 76. Before him are Margaret Court, Larry Flynt, George Jung, Wolfgang Schäuble, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, and Jean-Claude Trichet. After him are Caetano Veloso, George Vella, Vladimír Mečiar, Muhammadu Buhari, Gilberto Gil, and Junichiro Koizumi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Dennett ranks 961 out of 18,182. Before him are Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Scott Glenn (1939), James M. Buchanan (1919), Shelley Winters (1920), Jennifer Jones (1919), and Richard Rorty (1931). After him are Murray Rothbard (1926), Carl Weathers (1948), Mel Ferrer (1917), Mark Wahlberg (1971), Judith Butler (1956), and Joel Schumacher (1939).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Daniel Dennett ranks 8. Before him are George Herbert Mead (1863), Robert Nozick (1938), John Searle (1932), Anne Sullivan (1866), Hilary Putnam (1926), and Richard Rorty (1931). After him are Judith Butler (1956), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), and Kenneth Waltz (1924).

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