Daniel Dennett
“We have more degrees of freedom than any other organism alive. We're autonomous, we pull our own strings…the primary moral responsibility of every human being is to not become a puppet of others.”
Daniel Dennett
“We have more degrees of freedom than any other organism alive. We're autonomous, we pull our own strings…the primary moral responsibility of every human being is to not become a puppet of others.”
Daniel C. Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of over four hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from
Artificial Intelligence and
Behavioral and Brain Sciences to
Poetics Today and
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.