Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett (Boston, 1942) is an American author, philosopher, and cognitive scientist. He holds the Austin Fletcher Chair of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett studied philosophy at Harvard and Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, California, Pittsburgh, as well as at the London School of Economics, and has lectured at hundreds of other universities. He is an Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Connecticut, Edinburgh, and McGill. In 1987, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dennett is renowned worldwide as a philosopher on topics of consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science, and is also considered one of the most significant theorists of evolution. His most well-known book is "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (1995). His works have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian, Portuguese, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Hebrew, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.