A philosopher-scientist at Tufts University.
Dennett is a strong proponent of the materialist view that the human mind is the result of the physical workings of the brain. He believes that the high-level consciousness of the human mind is simply the result of the Darwinian evolutionary process. He strongly opposes any effort to mysticize the workings of the human mind.

Born:

March 28, 1942, Boston

Married:

1963 Susan Bell (one son, one daughter)

Education:

• Oxford University (DPhil 1965)
• Wesleyan University; Harvard (BA 1963)
• Philips Exeter Academy

Career:

• 2000- University Professor, Tufts
• 1985- Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
• 1985-2000 Distinguished prof of arts & sciences
• 1979 Visiting lecturer, Oxford
• 1976-82 Chairman, department of philosophy, Tufts
• 1975- Prof, Tufts
• 1971-75 Associate prof, Tufts
• 1970-71 Assoc prof, Irvine
• 1965-70 Assistant professor of philosophy, University of
• California at Irvine

Books:

• 2003 Freedom Evolves
• 1998 Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
• 1996 Kinds of Minds
• 1995 Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• 1991 Consciousness Explained
• 1981 The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, co-edited with Douglas Hofstadter
• 1978 Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
• 1969 Content and Consciousness