Daniel Dennett

1942 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: analytic philosophy

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Phillips Exeter Academy, Wesleyan University, Harvard University, Hertford College, Christ Church

occupation: philosopher, writer, professor, cognitive scientist, international forum participant

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Richard Dawkins Award, Erasmus Prize, Humanist of the Year, Fulbright Scholarship, Jean Nicod Prize, AAAI Fellow, CSS Fellow, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Emperor Has No Clothes Award, Barwise Prize

influenced by: Bertrand Russell, Willard Van Orman Quine, Richard Dawkins

official website: ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) 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.As of 2017, he is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dennett is a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal and a co-founder of The Clergy Project.A vocal atheist and secularist, Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Source: Wikipedia (en)