For more than 50 years, Daniel C. Dennett has been right in the thick of some of humankind’s most meaningful arguments: the nature and function of consciousness and religion, the development and ...

So where are you? In the vat or with your body? Or both places at once? Such were the questions raised by Daniel C. Dennett, a prolific and often provocative American philosopher whose theories ...

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. Stunned reactions to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was reminded of this episode last week when Richard Dawkins posted on X about his friend, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who has died at the age of 82. “Dan Dennett was a great philosopher ...

Is consciousness an illusion? Only a philosopher could convince himself of something as implausible. By Thomas Nagel Daniel Dennett, one of the most famous and prolific philosophers of his generation, ...

When the affable car-rental attendant asked where I was headed, I said, “Up to Maine, to meet a world-renowned philosopher,” and then immediately encountered what Daniel Dennett has experienced much ...

Before his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the BBC about his lifelong quest to understand human experience – and why he saw new dangers from AI. The philosopher ...