Daniel Dennett


Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Consciousness Explained
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Freedom Evolves
Steve Volk
At one conference Hameroff told Dennett, publicly, "You know, Dan, maybe the reason you like this [mechanistic] idea is because you're a zombie. And maybe the reason I see things differently is because, I'm not." Hameroff told me he was half-joking. But Dennett took offense. "I wound up apologizing," says Hameroff. "I guess he only likes the idea of being a zombie if we're all zombies. ...more
Steve Volk, Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't

McGrath briefly notes Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian, and J. J. C. Smart gets a single mention, as does Adolf Grünbaum, but the other major defenders of philosophical atheism of the last half-century do not even merit a nod. His index contains no listings for Antony Flew, Wallace Matson, Kai Nielsen, Richard Gale, William L. Rowe, Michael Martin, J. L. Mackie, Daniel Dennett, Evan Fales, Michael Tooley, Quentin Smith, Jordan Howard Sobel, Robin Le Poidevin, Theodore Drange, Walter S ...more
Keith Parsons

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