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Early Years
Daniel Clement Dennett lll was born March 28, 1942 to father Daniel Clement Dennett, Jr. and mother Ruth Majorie in a small suburb of Boston, Massachusetts His father, also highly intelligent, was a top secret counter-intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. His parents also had a sister of his later on in life, Charlotte He graduated from Philips Exeter academy in 1959, spent a year at Wesleyan College, then transferred to Harvard where he majored in philosophy. -
First Major publication
Daniel Dennett, lll, after his successful graduation and obtaining a PhD from Oxford University, published his first work: Content and Consciousness. This scholarly work about philosophy, focuses on cognitive sciences; the science of the study of the mind and the way it processes information.This science goes in depth with the ideas of free will, determinationism, as well as philosophy of the mind, the reasons for humans thinking and perceiving the way that they do. -
Most notable work.
His most notable work, Free Will, was published in 1984. In this philosophical work, he showcases the point that free will is worth wanting. He incorporates the libertarian views in his thinking, but also differs from them. Here, he coins the term "consideration generator", the two-stage model for his idea of thought process.He further delves into the process for a person's final decision making, and all of the events that surround the process. -
Thoughts on religion
In 2006, Dennett published a book on the scientific take of religion. In his book, titled "Breaking the Spell", This book begged to ask the questions of why and how this premise of religion came about, attempting to dethrone it. He was also dubbed one of the Four Horseman of Atheism. During this time period, he was also looking into and documenting priests and other ordained bodies of the church that held secret atheist views. -
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Works Cited
“Daniel Dennett Timeline.” Timetoast, www.timetoast.com/timelines/daniel-dennett-a08402e7-a0ac-4fda-8da6-519bbcd6da4b.
“Daniel Dennett.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 May 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett.
