Thomas Nagel responds in a review of Daniel Dennett's new book: "Dennett holds that consciousness is not part of reality in the way the brain is. Rather, it is a particularly salient and convincing ...

Daniel C. Dennett is a big man with a big appetite for intellectual fights. A celebrated philosophy professor and the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, he is best known ...

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What was Machiavelli really like, and what did he actually think of power? “Ever since Shakespeare labelled Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a ‘murderous Machiavel’, the word ‘Machiavellian’ in popular ...