Daniel Blumberg says his motto writing music for The Testament of Ann Lee was "it has to be as extreme as possible." ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Theodore McDarrah writes about practical philosophy for leaders. An academic whose work reaches beyond the Ivory Tower is rare.

At the age of 23, Daniel Dennett set out on what he described as a “wildly ambitious” task to show that anything a mind can do, a machine can do, for his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of ...

Descartes posited consciousness as the undeniable fact; modern science dissolved observer-observed distance with unified field theory; Daniel Dennett challenged Cartesian concept with materialistic ...

Liad Mudrik is a cognitive neuroscientist at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Brain, Mind & Consciousness programme, where Dennett served as an ...

On April 19, Daniel Dennett, University and Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, passed away at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. His death was caused by complications from ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A decade or so ago I found myself sharing a stage with the late Lewis Wolpert, the developmental biologist and ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett died a few days ago, on April 19. When he argued that we overrate consciousness, he demonstrated, paradoxically, how conscious he was, and he made his audience more ...