Daniel Dennett
American cognitive scientist
Died when: 82 years 22 days (984 months)Star Sign: Aries
Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
As of 2017, he is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B.Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Dennett is a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal and a co-founder of The Clergy Project.A vocal atheist and secularist, Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
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