Dennett

Dennett is using a common tactic — using science as a weapon to shoot down religious faith.

2009 January - Telic Thoughts 2009

If Dennett is a materialist, and he admits that subjective experience is real — and he is an anti-vitalist and anti-dualist — then he must also be a panpsychist.

Mindful things « Anglican Samizdat 2010

If Dennett is a materialist, and he admits that subjective experience is real — and he is an anti-vitalist and anti-dualist — then he must also be a panpsychist.

2010 February « Anglican Samizdat 2010

There was also an interesting issue brought up in Dennett and Hoftstadter's book The Mind's Eye.

A Conundrum 2008

Still want to maintain that Dennett is an eliminativist about intentionality?

Blurring the Line 2007

And you can go stance 3 and grant it as much intention as living (or, in Dennett's world, I suppose "living") agents.

Blurring the Line 2007

Dennett is fond of speaking of selection as leading organisms through "Design Space": Selection "lifts" organisms along "ramps" of good Design.

A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

That's not what Dennett is arguing is here, and you damn well know it.

Blurring the Line 2007

Dennett is fond of speaking of selection as leading organisms through "Design Space": Selection "lifts" organisms along "ramps" of good Design.

A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

First off, Dennett is an eliminativist about qualia, not about intentionality or agency.

Blurring the Line 2007