Daniel Clement "Dan" Dennett III (lahia 28 Maret 1942)[1][2] adolah saurang panulih, filsuf, dan ilmuwan kognitif Amerika Sarikat. Sumbangannyo ado di bidang filsafat pikiran, filsafat sains, filsafat biologi, biologi evolusioner, dan sains kognitif.[3]
Dennet mangatoan bahwasanyo inyo partamo kali dikenalan jo gagasan filsafat kutiko ikuik pakemahan musim paneh di usia 11 taun, katiko saurang konselor pakemahan bakato kapadonyo, "Waang tau siapo diri ang, Daniel? Ang adolah saurang filsuh." Dalam salah ciek bukunyo nan alah ditajamahan kadalam Bahaso Indonesia nan bajudul Ragam Akal Budi, Dennet mangutaroan bahwa dirinyo saurang filsuf nan sangaik pandai mangajuan partanyaan daripado manyadioan jawaban. Baliau bapandangan bahwa para filsuf dapek mambari sumbangan nan elok dalam panyalidikan untuak mamahami diri surang jo dunia dalam proyek gadang umaik manusia jo caro mangajuan partanyaan-partanyaan nan labiah elok diajuan, sarato malapeh diri dari kabiasaan dan tradisi batanyo nan lamo. Contohnyo katiko baliau mangajuan babarapo partanyaan sarupo dibawah iko untuak mamahami jo manganali akabudi kito surang.[4]
- Bisa ndak kito batua-batua mangatahui apo nan sadang tajadi dalam akabudi urang lain?
- Bisa ndak saurang padusi bana-bana tahu baa rasonyo manjadi laki-laki?
- Pangalaman apo nan dipunyo dek bayi katiko inyo lahia?
- Pangalaman apo jikok ado, nan dipunyoi janin di dalam rahim amaknyo?
- Bagaimano jo akalbudi nonmanusia?
- Api nan dipikian dek kudo?
- Mangaa buruang bangkai indak mual dek bangkai busuak nan inyo makan?
Dan sataruihnyo. Dennet juo manggambaran dirinyo sabagai saurang autodidak atau labiah tapeknyo, panarimo manfaaik dari ratuihan jam tutorial informal di sadoalah bidang nan inyo suko jo minati, dari babarapo ilmuwan takamuko di dunia.
Karya
- Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (MIT Press 1981) (ISBN 0-262-54037-1)
- Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (MIT Press 1984) — on free will and determinism (ISBN 0-262-04077-8)
- The Mind's I (Bantam, Reissue edition 1985, with Douglas Hofstadter) (ISBN 0-553-34584-2)
- Content and Consciousness (Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd; 2nd ed. January 1986) (ISBN 0-7102-0846-4)
- The Intentional Stance (6th printing), Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-54053-3 (First published 1987)
- Consciousness Explained (Back Bay Books 1992) (ISBN 0-316-18066-1)
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Simon & Schuster; reprint edition 1996) (ISBN 0-684-82471-X)
- Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness (Basic Books 1997) (ISBN 0-465-07351-4)
- Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (Representation and Mind) (MIT Press 1998) (ISBN 0-262-04166-9) — A Collection of Essays 1984–1996
- Freedom Evolves (Viking Press 2003) (ISBN 0-670-03186-0)
- Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (MIT Press 2005) (ISBN 0-262-04225-8)
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Penguin Group 2006) (ISBN 0-670-03472-X).
- Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language (Columbia University Press 2007) (ISBN 978-0-231-14044-7), co-authored with Maxwell Bennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle
- Science and Religion (Oxford University Press 2010) (ISBN 0-199-73842-4), co-authored with Alvin Plantinga
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking (W. W. Norton & Company - May 6, 2013) (ISBN 0-393-08206-7)
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