Tributes to Dan Dennett, 1942-2024
- Personal remembrance of Dan by Deniz Cem Önduygu
- Farewell to a Beautiful Mind, Maarten Boudry
- Daniel C. Dennett: Tribute to A Philosophical Giant, Psychology Today, Walter Veit
- A personal remembrance of Daniel C. Dennett, Devin Sanchez Curry
- A tribute to Daniel C. Dennett, Closer to Truth, Robert Lawrence Kuhn
- Daniel Dennett: The man who saw reality’s patterns, iai news, Keith Frankish
- Daniel Dennett, my friend, Douglas Hofstadter, & photos “Sky in memoriam DCD,” 1 and 2
- Tufts Philosophy Department
- A personal remembrance of Dan Dennett (1942-2024), Eric Schliesser
- Remember Dan Dennett (1942-2024), Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Jennifer Windt
- Daniel Dennett, Tufts professor emeritus and renowned philosopher, passes away at 82, Nicholas Prather, Tufts Daily
- “Consciousness in humans and machines,” Daniel Dennett memorial lecture, Nicholas Humphrey
- Remembering Dan, Felipe de Brigard
Videos
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“Wild and domesticated religions, how the machinery of religions evolved,” Santa Fe Institute, March
Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design – with Daniel Dennett, 2015
“Fake people aren’t funny,” interview by Alan Alda, Clear and Vivid podcast, July 25th, 2023.
AI, BIG DATA, SOCIAL MEDIA and people on the move, by Anna Strasser
Counterfeit People, June, 2023
The evolution of understanding, on several levels, SFI, April 26th, 2023
Review of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea on Shepherd.com.
Memes, Minds and Windsurfing, November 9th, 2021.
Philosophy For Our Times, interviewed by Daniel Glaser, April 6th, 2021.
“Closer to Truth” interview, March 12th, 2021.
“Chicken or Egg,” debate with Sara Walker and Nick Lane on IAI.tv.
Om filosofers liv och tankar, #37 Daniel Dennett on his Philosophical Journey
University of Illinois Press Podcast Series, American Philosophical Quarterly, January 19th, 2021.
A letter exchange with Alex Rosenberg, November 2020.
How the Light Gets In Global, September 19-20, 2020.
Global Conversations, October 18th, 2020.
Outtake video by Shaman Films explaining “Competence without Comprehension.”
Outtake video by Shaman Films explaining “Termites and the Sagrada Familia.”
Interviewed by Louis Godbout, January 5th, 2020.
The Life Scientific: Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain – BBC Sounds.
Four Horsemen review: Whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?
The 2018 Charles Darwin Oration.
Nijmegen Lectures October 2018. Day one – Autonomy and Consciousness.
Nijmegen Lectures October 2018. Day two – The role of Language in Human Consciousness.
“Can we be held morally responsible for our actions?” Dan Dennett and Greg Caruso.
“Are we more than matter?” Dan Dennett and Keith Ward.
THE PANPSYCAST PHILOSOPHY PODCAST, April 22nd, 2018.
Daniel Dennett – on our mind, God and other illusions (Sternstunde Philosophie vom 18.2.2018)
Podcast: Psykiatrikerna interview
Keynote lecture at The Generalized Theory of Evolution conference, Dusseldorf, January 31, 2018.
Interview at The Generalized Theory of Evolution conference, Dusseldorf, January 31st, 2018.
Interview at the University of Dusseldorf, February 4th, 2018.
“Daniel Dennett – a classical philosopher.”
Trinity College commencement address.
“Memes Saved from Extinction,” Santa Fe Institute, May 11th, 2017.
Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God.
Free Will Revisited: A conversation with Daniel Dennett (Sam Harris podcast, June 2016).
Hear What It Sounds Like When Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s Brain Activity Gets Turned into Music.
The Ling Space interview, January 2016.
“What is consciousness?” The Economist Youtube channel.
A hard problem for soft brains: is there a Hard Problem?
In a funk about the “New Atheism”
Interviewed in JotDown Cultural Magazine, June 2015, Barcelona.
Here’s a take on the Modern State of Religion, posted by Hayli Harding.
Review of Intuition Pumps by Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki, 2015.
The sessions of the Greenland Conference: Andy Clark and Daniel Dennett, June 2014.
Cultural Evolution at the Santa Fe Institute, May 2014
Dan Dennett voted 5th in a list of 100 Global Thought Leaders of 2013!
“What can science tell us about free will?” Harvey Preisler Memorial Symposium, November 23rd, 2013
Filipino Freethinkers interview, December 1, 2013
Interviewed by Muath Aldabbagh, 2014.
Other Interesting Links:
“Daniel Dennett on Tools to Transform Our Thinking,” Intelligence Squared, 2013.
In Conversation with W.V. Quine – The Dennett Panel, 1994
Conversatorio Consciente: Capítulo 1: Daniel Dennett x Andrés Rieznik
“De-Darwinizing Culture,” University of Edinburgh Philosophy Society, March 19th, 2015.
Daniel Dennett over het denken, October 23rd, 2013
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? UCSD, “Humor,” Feb 2013
Google lecture, May 15th, 2013
“How Darwinian is Cultural Evolution?” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Dec, 2013
Interviewed by Marieke Drost for Dutch Public Television, November 2012
Interviewed by Hemant Mehta for his ‘Friendly Atheist Blog’
Interview at Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, June 21, 2012
“How to tell you’re an atheist,” Melbourne Atheist Conference, April, 2012
University of Melbourne, April 12th, 2012
Taste of Tufts lecture April 20, 2012
Dan Dennett speaks at Creative Innovation 2011
Words of the Prophets #37, interviewed by Rev. Phil, April 2010
YouTube – Daniel Dennett lecture on “Free Will” (Edinburgh University)
Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior – 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series (click here for reference list)
Debating Dinesh D’Souza at Tufts University, November 30th, 2007
Check out this video version of the dramatization of “Where am I?” made in Holland
Evolutionary Perspectives (Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker, Diamond, Adams)
Recommended Links
Christopher Hitchens memorial video
Donate to A Better Life book project
Tufts Now review of Inside Jokes
2012 Global Atheist Convention
RodRego, the programmable register machine
Emily Rooney interviewed Daniel Dennett on NPR, 11/17/10
Point of Inquiry: CFI Interview 12/12/11
In Conversation with Dan Dennett – guest post by Kaustubh Adhikari
‘Killjoys’ Challenge Claims Of Clever Animals
From the Darwin Year:
TED Conference, March 16 2009: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
British Humanist Association, March 19th, 2009
Sakip Sabanci Museum, organized by Sabancı University, Istanbul, April 10, 2009
Human Nature and Belief, Darwin Fest, Cambridge University, UK, July 8th 2009
Darwin’s Legacy – Stanford University, October 13th, 2009
Darwin Conference at Chicago, October 29th through 31st
La Ciudad de las Ideas – lecture – November, 2009
Miscellaneous
“Let’s Start With A Respect For Truth,” Dennett on Wieseltier, Edge.org
Big Think Blog, August 4th, 2013
Big Think Mentor Blog, July 13th, 2013
Theos Think Tank Interview, July 4th, 2013
Interviewed by Rationalist Association, June 28th, 2013
Bloomberg Interview June 24th, 2013
Philosophy Bites Interview June 2013
Science Weekly podcast interview, June 2nd, 2013
Radio Boston interview, May 7th, 2013
BBC HARDTALK interview, April 1st, 2013
Katia Kanban discusses the debate about memetics between Dennett and Sperber
Philosophy Bites podcast interview
Interviewed by Patt Morrison on KPCC Radio 89.3
Reflections on the Personal/Subpersonal, May 11-12, UCL London
Dan Dennett wins the 2012 Erasmus Prize!
The winners of the 2009 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy
Read a tribute read by Richard Dawkins while giving Dan Dennett an award
He also can be heard here, on the BBC – Radio 4 – Start the Week program, recorded April 21, 2008
Interview by IHU Online (Brazilian magazine)
An animation of my DARWIN acronym in Latin, by Deniz Cem Önduygu
A Greek version of the DARWIN acronym by Gerol Petruzella
Excellent Tree of Life Diagram
Belorussian translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?” provided by FatCow
¡Detengan a ese cuervo! (Entrevista a Daniel C. Dennett) | Desde el Exilio
Entrevista Daniel Dennett — Desconstruindo o “eu” (Flavio Paranhos)
Interviewed in El Pais Digital, 3/26/2010, “El Heredero de Bertrand Russell”
Hindi translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
Russian translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
Polish translation of “A lesson from Hitch: When rudeness is called for”
Polish translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
Another Polish translation of “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”
Czech translation of “The Case for Rorts”
Polish translation of “Seven Tools for Thinking”
Polish translation of “Dennett on Wieseltier V. Pinker in the New Republic”
Portugese translation of “Turing’s ‘strange inversion of reasoning.’” For information about the journal in which the translation appears, click here.
French Translation of “Postmodernism and Truth”
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