Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett. W. W. Norton. 496 pages. $28.95. Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett. Back Bay Books. 528 pages. $18. The great ...

Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

Daniel Dennett tackled some of the most vexing questions about the experience of being human (Credit: Getty Images) Before his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the BBC ...

Dennett (Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking), co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, combines arguments from philosophy, biology, and informatics to explore ...

An influential subset of philosophers has been debating 'zombies' for decades, and not the sort you see in horror movies and television shows. While the common conception of a zombie is of a ravenous, ...

Behold, the noble spectacle of the human mind contemplating itself -and coming up confused. Is what we call the "mind" totally encompassed in the jangling nerve ends of the brain? Or does it exist in ...

The “problem of other minds”—knowing that someone else has a mind like yours, and in the case of consciousness, subjective experiences similar to yours—is not too much of a problem when we are ...