World-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82. (Full disclosure: This ...

On April 19, Daniel Dennett, University and Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, passed away at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. His death was caused by complications from ...

Daniel Dennett tackled some of the most vexing questions about the experience of being human (Credit: Getty Images) Before his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

Daniel Clement Dennett III was born on March 28, 1942, in Boston. He spent part of his childhood in Beirut, where his father was a covert intelligence agent, code-named “Carat,” while assigned ...

Daniel Dennett: "Well, everybody should focus on it to some degree. I think it's a very important issue because it's immediate. We're not talking about who cares about the singularity in 100 ...

FREEDOM EVOLVES. By Daniel C. Dennett. Viking, $24.95; 347 pp. BEHIND the question ...

His father, Daniel C. Dennett Jr., was a Harvard-educated scholar of Islam recruited as a spy by the WWII forerunner to the CIA. Dennett was five when his father was killed in a mysterious plane ...