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- Birth nameDaniel Clement Dennett III
- Daniel C. Dennett was born on March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director, known for Psi, The Human Robot (2015) and Victim of the Brain (1988). He was married to Susan Bell. He died on April 19, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
- SpouseSusan Bell(1962 - April 19, 2024) (his death, 2 children)
- ParentsDaniel Clement Dennett Jr.Ruth Marjorie Leck
- RelativesCharlotte Dennett(Sibling)
- Co-founder (in 1985) and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.
- American philosopher and cognitive scientist.
- Has a daughter, a son, and a grandson.
- Received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris.
- Author of books including Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
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