He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, aįulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985,Īnd the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. (Norton, 2013), Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind, with Linda LaScola (, 2013), and From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Norton, 2017). His most recent books are Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
He is the author of over four hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, was published in 2005 by MIT Press. His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), and Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998). He is currently a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and New College of the Humanities in London. Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the London School of Economics and the American Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil.
He was born in Boston in 1942, the son ofĪ historian by the same name, and received his B.A. He lives with his wife in Maine,Īnd has a daughter, a son, and five grandchildren. Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) andĭarwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophyĭaniel C.
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