[4eyes] FW: [Sage-center] Sage Center Distinguished Fellow lecture by Daniel Dennett: Monday, November 4, 3 p.m., Bren 4016

[Matthew Turk]

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Subject: [Sage-center] Sage Center Distinguished Fellow lecture by Daniel
Dennett: Monday, November 4, 3 p.m., Bren 4016

 

Daniel Dennett

Sage Center Distinguished Fellow Lecture

“From Competence to Comprehension: The Origin of Minds”

Monday, November 4

3 p.m., Bren Hall, Floor 4L, Room 4016

 




The Sage Center Distinguished Fellow for November is Daniel Dennett,
University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and
Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Dr.
Dennett’s 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. He received his DPhil at Oxford
under the supervision of Gilbert Ryle, and he began teaching at UC Irvine in
1965. In 1971 he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from
periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, the École Normale
Supérieure in Paris, the London School of Economics and the American
University of Beirut. Dr. Dennett is the author of Breaking the Spell:
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking
Penguin, 2003), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), and many
other books and scholarly publications. His most recent book is Intuition
Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (W.W. Norton, 2013).

 

Dr. Dennett’s first Sage Center lecture is Monday, November 4 at 3 p.m. in
Bren 4016.  His description of this talk follows:

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Darwin and Turing established the counterintuitive category of competence
without comprehension, which presents us with a good theoretical puzzle: how
and why did comprehension evolve?

 

References

Dennett, D. (2009). Darwin's “strange inversion of reasoning.” PNAS, 106
(Suppl. 1), 10061-10065.

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/PNAS-2009-Dennett-0904433106.pdf

 

Dennett, D.C. (2009). The cultural evolution of words and other thinking
tools. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 74, 1-7.

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/coldspring.pdf

 

Godfrey-Smith, P. (2011). Darwinian populations and natural selection.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 







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