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Bio
Daniel Dennett was born on March 28, 1942. Dennett grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. Dennett grew a fascination with philosophy at 11 years old. He achieved his Ph.D. of Arts in philosophy at Oxford University in 1965. -
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
This book contains seventeen essays about consciousness and free will. Where Dennett contributed to the field of cognitive science by formulating arguments and experiments that exposed previous traditional views on the human mind. -
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Dennett talks about free will. He specifically asks the question, "Are we deterministic machines with no real freedom faction or do we in fact have some elbow room, some real choice in our behavior?" -
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Daniel in his book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea talks about how natural selection is an algorithmic process that has no goal. With this said, he explains how evolution explains the way we think and interpret the world around us. -
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
https://youtu.be/v9dZeJ3owGg?si=-bGTthgqIGaNFmvP Dennett argues that religious ideas can be explained as evolutionary functions of the brain.