Daniel C. Dennett, University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, photographed in his office at Tufts.

One of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists, Daniel C. Dennett, passed away this week. He was one of the first contemporary philosophers to take naturalism really seriously, i.e.

Tufts University called him a major intellectual figure globally with his research on the philosophy of mind, science and particularly on evolutionary biology. He was one of the most widely read and ...

Daniel Dennett’s fertile imagination is captivated by the very dangerous idea that the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution should become the basis for what amounts to an established state ...

Editors' Note: This video is from a panel at the World Peace Foundation–sponsored conference, Unlearning Violence, held February 13 & 14, 2014. Video of the full event can be found here. Are humans ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is edging closer to doing things that are recognised as human intelligence. Daniel Dennett, a celebrated philosopher who has spent decades considering what makes a mind, ...

“It’s emerging, it’s everywhere. It’s going to be even more everywhere … and it’s scary and inspiring at the same time,” Jad Oubala, president and founder of the Tufts Artificial Intelligence Society, ...

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 the C-SPAN Networks: Daniel C. Dennett is a Co-Director for the Center for Cognitive Studies in the Tufts University with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2003 ...