World renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82. ( Full disclosure: This los...
04.20.2024 Arstechnica.com and 2 sitesDaniel Dennett combined a wide range of knowledge with an easy, often playful writing style to reach a lay public, avoiding the impenetrable concepts and turgid prose of many other contemporary philos...
04.19.2024 bostonglobe.com , nytimes.com and 5 sitesEva Evans, a TikTok star who created the comedic web series 'Club Rat, ' has died at 29 years old. The content creator's sister, Lila Joy, announced the news in an Instagram post Sunday, saying the fa...
04.22.2024 Yahoo.com and 19 sitesBefore his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the BBC about his lifelong quest to understand human experience – and why he saw new dangers from AI. Before his recent dea...
04.22.2024 Bbc.comDaniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of Darwinism and one of the most virulent controversialists on the academic circuit. Dennett argued that everything has to be understood in terms of natural processes, and that terms such as “intelligence” “free will”, “consciousness” “justice”, the “soul” or the “self” describe phenomena which can be explained in terms of physical processes and not the exercise of some disembodied or m...
04.19.2024 Yahoo.com and 1 sitesTufts University called him a major intellectual figure globally with his research on the philosophy of mind, science and particularly on evolutionary biology. He was one of the most widely read and d...
04.20.2024 Turnto23.com and 24 sitesImagine that somehow your body and brain were separated but still working as a team. Your brain sits in a vat. Your body can move around, remotely connected to your brain by some kind of signal. So wh...
04.21.2024 Pressherald.com and 1 sitesVorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion delivered as a set of lectures in the 1820s and early 1830s ( As a discipline taught and debated in universities and seminaries, philosophy of religion ha...
04.19.2024 Mdpi.comDaniel Dennett, who has died aged 82, was a controversial philosopher whose writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and evolutionary psychology helped shift Anglo-American...
04.21.2024 Allusanewshub.comRecently deceased philosopher Daniel Dennett called Darwin’s idea of natural selection the best idea anyone ever had, a universal solvent that melts away all the problems in biology. Dennet had contempt for Christians, coined the term ‘brights’ for t...
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