Daniel Dennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 7225635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Dennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennett |
| SIGNATURE | DENNETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Commentary on Mark Richard, Meanings as Species
Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities
This article argues, in defense of compatibilism, that objections to compatibilist accounts of free agency are based on a flawed understanding of the relationship of such notions as possibility and causation to freedom and agency. It undertakes an analysis of the relevant notions of possibility and causation to show this. The article develops a compatibilist view, with special attention to technical issues about the nature of causation and possib…
The sleep of reason: Do atheists improve the stock
The Virtues of Virtual Machines
Dennett on Virtual Machines (3)This quote from Dennett is better: "A virtual machine is What you get when you impose a particular pattern of rules (more literally: dispositions or transition regularities) on all that plasticity."Consciousness Explained p. 211The idea of a particular set of dispositions, or transition regularities, described at a virtual machine level, is important, and is discussed more fully in other presentations here: http://w…
Vii Conditions of Personhood
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Vii Conditions of Personhood
The Virtues of Virtual Machines
Dennett on Virtual Machines (3)This quote from Dennett is better: "A virtual machine is What you get when you impose a particular pattern of rules (more literally: dispositions or transition regularities) on all that plasticity."Consciousness Explained p. 211The idea of a particular set of dispositions, or transition regularities, described at a virtual machine level, is important, and is discussed more fully in other presentations here: http://w…
Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities
This article argues, in defense of compatibilism, that objections to compatibilist accounts of free agency are based on a flawed understanding of the relationship of such notions as possibility and causation to freedom and agency. It undertakes an analysis of the relevant notions of possibility and causation to show this. The article develops a compatibilist view, with special attention to technical issues about the nature of causation and possib…
The sleep of reason: Do atheists improve the stock
Commentary on Mark Richard, Meanings as Species
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Causality (physics) (1 works) · Causation (1 works)