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Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett is Austin B Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

October 2020

  • US flag with arrows for Review magazine cover

    'How do we become a serious people again?' Dave Eggers, Annie Proulx and more on the 2020 election

    How is America faring after four years of Donald Trump? Which way will voters turn? US authors including Richard Powers, Ocean Vuong and Kiley Reid share their hopes and fears

July 2013

  • Daniel Dennett versus Andrew Brown

    Five-minute debates
    Do the New Atheists have any new ideas? - five-minute video debate

    Andrew Brown challenges Daniel Dennett to convince him that the New Atheists have the arguments to back up their rhetoric

July 2009

  • Cif belief
    The folly of pretence

    Daniel Dennett

    Daniel Dennett: Should we believe in belief?: We must not preserve the myth of God – it was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it

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