He was 82. See here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/philosopher-daniel-dennett-dead-at-82/
For me, Dennett’s most influential idea was his distinction between “skyhooks” and “cranes”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p241101
He was 82. See here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/philosopher-daniel-dennett-dead-at-82/
For me, Dennett’s most influential idea was his distinction between “skyhooks” and “cranes”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p241101
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Thank you for letting me know — one of the most influential books in my life was the one he co-edited with Hofstadter, “The Mind’s I”. While I thought that Dennett, like most philosophers, was as preoccupied with picking arguments as he was advancing his own notions (or felt that the two preoccupations were inexorably intertwined), I appreciated his 1980s sensibilities in the 1980s. I didn’t think he weathered as well, or perhaps as distinctively, in the 2000s.
It looks like now only two of the four horsemen of “new atheism” are still alive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism#:~:text=Major%20figures%20of%20New%20Atheism,conversion%20to%20Christianity%20in%202023.
Even though I am non-religious, I have been skeptical of the atheism movement ( I reject proselytization).
But ..
I loved the Hitchens’s Menckenian-wit
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I hate to admit it, but I am not that familiar with Dennett.
I’ve read a couple of his articles in an issue of Philosophy Now, I purchased from Barnes & Noble a few years back.
I do know he has been a very influential thinker.
R.I.P