Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises ...

American philosopher and cognitive scientist, Daniel Dennett has described the brain’s neurons as tiny “robots”, in fact, he says, “we’re not just robots, we’re robots made of robots.” ...

Not Daniel Dennett. His first academic paper, published in 1965, explained why he thought Dreyfus was wrong. There’s nothing special about intuition, says Dennett. “Intuition is simply knowing ...

n. (3) An artificial enzyme used to curdle the milk of human intentionality. ("The Philosophical Lexicon", Daniel C. Dennett (Ed.)) Daniel C. Dennett is Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at ...

As promotional stunts for self-help books go, London’s Temple to Atheism is about as grand as it gets. A 46-metre-tall, open-air structure representing the age of the Earth, with fossils lining ...