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| - | '''Daniel Clement Dennett''' (born March 28, 1942) is an [[American philosopher]] 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]]. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a [[Academic_rank#United_States|University Professor]] at [[Tufts University]]. Dennett is a noted [[atheist]] and [[secularism|secularist]], a member of the [[Secular Coalition for America]] advisory board, as well as a prominent advocate of the [[Brights movement]]. | + | '''Peter Michael Stephan Hacker''' (born 15 July 1939) is a British philosopher. |
| - | ==Selected works== | + | His principal expertise is in the [[philosophy of mind]] and |
| - | + | [[philosophy of language]]. He is known for his detailed | |
| - | * ''[[Brainstorms]]: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology'' (MIT Press 1981) (ISBN 0-262-54037-1) | + | exegesis of the work of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], and his outspoken conceptual critique of [[cognitive neuroscience]]. |
| - | * ''[[Elbow Room (book)|Elbow Room]]: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting'' (MIT Press 1984) — on [[free will]] and [[determinism]] (ISBN 0-262-04077-8) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Mind's I]]'' (Bantam, Reissue edition 1985, with [[Douglas Hofstadter]]) (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) | + | |
| - | * ''Content and Consciousness'' (Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd; 2nd ed. January 1986) (ISBN 0-7102-0846-4) | + | |
| - | *{{citation|year=1996 |title=[[The Intentional Stance]] (6th printing) |place=Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=0-262-54053-3}} (First published 1987) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Consciousness Explained]]'' (Back Bay Books 1992) (ISBN 0-316-18066-1) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Darwin's Dangerous Idea|Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life]]'' (Simon & Schuster; reprint edition 1996) (ISBN 0-684-82471-X) | + | |
| - | * ''Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness'' (Basic Books 1997) (ISBN 0-465-07351-4) | + | |
| - | * ''Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (Representation and Mind)'' (MIT Press 1998) (ISBN 0-262-04166-9) — A Collection of Essays 1984–1996 | + | |
| - | * ''[[Freedom Evolves]]'' (Viking Press 2003) (ISBN 0-670-03186-0) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness]]'' ([[MIT Press]] 2005) (ISBN 0-262-04225-8) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon]]'' (Penguin Group 2006) (ISBN 0-670-03472-X). | + | |
| - | * ''Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language'' (Columbia University Press 2007) (ISBN 978-0-231-14044-7), co-authored with Maxwell Bennett, [[Peter Hacker]], and [[John Searle]] | + | |
| - | * ''Science and Religion'' (Oxford University Press 2010) (ISBN 0-199-73842-4), co-authored with [[Alvin Plantinga]] | + | |
| - | * ''Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking'' (W. W. Norton & Company – May 6, 2013) (ISBN 0-393-08206-7) | + | |
| - | * ''Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind'' (MIT Press – 2011) (ISBN 978-0-262-01582-0), co-authored with Matthew M. Hurley and Reginald B. Adams, Jr. | + | |
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| - | == See also == | + | |
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| - | * ''[[The Atheism Tapes]]'' | + | |
| - | * [[Cartesian materialism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Conscious Robots]] | + | |
| - | * [[Evolutionary psychology of religion]] | + | |
| - | * [[Greedy reductionism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Geoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychologist)]] | + | |
| - | * [[Heterophenomenology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Intentional stance]] | + | |
| - | * [[Jean Nicod Prize|List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates]] | + | |
| - | * [[Memetics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Multiple drafts theory|Multiple drafts theory of consciousness]] | + | |
| - | * [[Philosophy of Religion]] | + | |
| - | * [[American philosophy]] | + | |
| - | * [[List of American philosophers]] | + | |
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Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born 15 July 1939) is a British philosopher.
His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind and
philosophy of language. He is known for his detailed
exegesis of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his outspoken conceptual critique of cognitive neuroscience.
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