id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7783 Daniel Dennett - Wikipedia .html text/html 7374 1202 55 Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.[8] He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.[22] He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.[23] He was named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.[24] In 2006, Dennett received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[25] Leading libertarian philosophers such as Robert Kane have rejected Dennett's model, specifically that random chance is directly involved in a decision, on the basis that they believe this eliminates the agent's motives and reasons, character and values, and feelings and desires. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7783.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7783.txt