Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett has written at least 51 books. Their most popular book is Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon with 62 saves with an average rating of 3.76⭐.

Author Bio

Daniel Clement Dennett III 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.

He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is an atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. - Wikipedia

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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.7625 reads
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
  • Daniel C. Dennett
4.314 reads
Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.8313 reads
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
  • Jorge Luis Borges
  • Christopher Cherniak
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Douglas E. Harding
  • Stanisław Lem
  • Justin Lieber
  • Terrel Miedaner
  • Harold J. Morowitz
  • Thomas Nagel
  • Robert Nozick
  • Rudy Rucker
  • David Hawley Sanford
  • John Rogers Searle
  • Raymond M. Smullyan
  • A.M. Turing
  • Allen Wheelis
  • Arnold Zuboff
3.7317 reads
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.49 reads
From Bacteria to Bach and Back The Evolution of Minds
From Bacteria to Bach and Back The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
46 reads
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.58 reads
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.675 reads
Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.334 reads
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The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Sam Harris
3.569 reads
Freedom Evolves
Freedom Evolves
  • Daniel C. Dennett
54 reads
Elbow Room
Elbow Room
  • Daniel C. Dennett
02 reads
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From Darwin to Derrida

From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
  • David Haig
02 reads
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Sam Harris
  • Daniel C. Dennett
31 read
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
52 reads
What Are You Optimistic About?
What Are You Optimistic About?
  • John Brockman
  • John McCarthy
  • Sam Harris
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Brian Greene
  • Jared Diamond
  • John Horgan
  • Martin Rees
  • Carlo Rovelli
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Andrew Brown
  • Michael Shermer
  • Clay Shirky
  • J. Craig Venter
  • Douglas Rushkoff
  • Anton Zeilinger
  • Leonard Susskind
  • Geoffrey Miller
  • Marcelo Gleiser
  • Martin E. P. Seligman
  • Freeman J. Dyson
  • Jerry Adler
  • Gino Segrè
  • Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
  • Robert Shapiro
  • Frank Wilczek
  • Paul J. Steinhardt
  • Lee Smolin
  • Lisa Randall
  • Charles Seife
  • Karl Sabbagh
  • Alexander Vilenkin
  • Max Tegmark
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Chris Anderson
  • Steven Pinker
00 reads
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Sam Harris
  • Richard Dawkins
4.53 reads
The intentional stance
The intentional stance
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
Brainstorms
Brainstorms
  • Daniel C. Dennett
3.252 reads
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Bombas de intuición y otras herramientas del pensamiento

Bombas de intuición y otras herramientas del pensamiento
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Laura Lecuona (Translator)
01 read
Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning
Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning
  • Dan Barker
31 read
Content and Consciousness
Content and Consciousness
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
Dźwignie wyobraźni i inne narzędzia do myślenia
Dźwignie wyobraźni i inne narzędzia do myślenia
  • Łukasz Kurek (Translator)
  • Daniel C. Dennett
31 read
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation
  • Nicholas Humphrey
41 read
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
  • Matthew Hurley
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Reginald B. Adams Jr.
00 reads
Breaking the spell
Breaking the spell
  • Daniel C. Dennett
41 read
Od bakterii do Bacha. O ewolucji umysłów
Od bakterii do Bacha. O ewolucji umysłów
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
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The Mind's I

The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
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Quebrando o Encanto

Quebrando o Encanto: a Religião Como Fenômeno Natural
  • Daniel C. Dennett
41 read
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
01 read
Elbow Room, new edition: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Elbow Room, new edition: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
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Los jinetes del Apocalipsis

Los jinetes del Apocalipsis
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Sam Harris
  • Àlex Guàrdia Berdiell (Translator)
  • Richard Dawkins
00 reads
Rompere l'incantesimo. La religione come fenomeno naturale
Rompere l'incantesimo. La religione come fenomeno naturale
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
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Caught in The Pulpit

Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
  • Linda LaScola
  • Daniel C. Dennett
21 read
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Just Deserts

Just Deserts: Debating Free Will
  • Gregg D. Caruso
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
Świadomość
Świadomość
  • Ewa Stokłosa (Translator)
  • Daniel C. Dennett
31 read
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Tipuri mentale

Tipuri mentale
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
Dai batteri a Bach. Come evolve la mente
Dai batteri a Bach. Come evolve la mente
  • Daniel C. Dennett
00 reads
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Alvin Plantinga
00 reads
A Glorious Accident
A Glorious Accident
    00 reads
    Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions
    Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions
    • David Chalmers
    • Douglas R. Hofstadter
    • Hilary Putnam
    • John Rogers Searle
    • Galen Strawson
    • Jaegwon Kim
    • Frank Jackson
    • Daniel C. Dennett
    00 reads
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    Quining Qualia

    Quining Qualia
    • Daniel C. Dennett
    00 reads
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    A Ideia Perigosa de Darwin

    A Ideia Perigosa de Darwin
    • Daniel C. Dennett
    00 reads
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    The Subtlety of Sameness

    The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy-Making
    • Robert M. French
    00 reads