# Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82
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**Tags:** Philosophy
**Created:** [April 20, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641 "2024-04-20T01:08:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/1 "2024-04-20T01:08:19Z")
Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82 [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html)
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### Author:  [@misterme987](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/misterme987)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/2 "2024-04-20T19:21:17Z")
8 posts were split to a new topic: [Free Will and Theism](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/free-will-and-theism/16642)
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### Author:  [@Faizal\_Ali](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Faizal_Ali)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/3 "2024-04-21T20:38:52Z")
I think Dennett might have got a kick out of some of the reactions from theists to his death:
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### Author:  [@pastorterry](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/pastorterry)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/4 "2024-04-21T20:41:27Z")
I found Dennett’s book, **Darwin’s Dangerous Idea** , an interesting read. It got me thinking about the question of whether Darwin’s theory is destructive to the Christian faith [as Dennett argues] or whether it ia a friend of faith. To me, it’s the latter, but that does necessarily involve some hermeneutical adjustments as to how Christians understand scriptures’ creation accounts, i.e. that they are not “scientific” in the modern sense but theological, describing God’s relationship to His creation, including those pesky _homo sapiens_ and their penchant for testing the limits of His grace.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/5 "2024-04-22T18:17:01Z")
I’d like to thank **Daniel Dennett** for some of the best advice I’ve ever read …
> **[How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps...](https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/)**
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> “Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?”
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### Author:  [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/6 "2024-04-22T18:46:33Z")
The link is broken. But I’m alert for any advice on Tim Horton’s.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/7 "2024-04-22T18:47:42Z")
Thanks, fixed!
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### Author:  [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/8 "2024-04-22T18:54:18Z")
Thanks, but I’m disappointed to find no mention of donuts or even bearclaws. Or beavertails. What about the beavertails?
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/9 "2024-04-24T00:02:02Z")
> **[Consciousness and the Dennett Paradox — John Horgan (The Science Writer)](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-epitaph-for-daniel-dennett-philosopher-of-consciousness/)**
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> Hoboken, April 20, 2024. Daniel Dennett’s death feels like the end of an era, the era of ultra-materialist, ultra-Darwinian, swaggering, know-it-all scientism . Who’s left? Dawkins? Dennett isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, I liked to say,...
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### Author:  [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/10 "2024-04-24T00:53:36Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/11 "2024-04-24T00:53:40Z")
But this, apparently, does not:
> **[Consciousness and the Dennett Paradox — John Horgan (The Science Writer)](https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/consciousness-and-the-dennett-paradox)**
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> Hoboken, April 20, 2024. Daniel Dennett’s death feels like the end of an era, the era of ultra-materialist, ultra-Darwinian, swaggering, know-it-all scientism . Who’s left? Dawkins? Dennett isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, I liked to say,...
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### Author:  [@chuckdarwin](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/chuckdarwin)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/12 "2024-04-27T14:14:01Z")
Whenever I come across the consciousness is illusion-consciousness is real “debate,” I think of a Neil Young lyric that sums it all up–“I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream…”
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### Author:  [@sfmatheson](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/sfmatheson)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/13 "2024-04-27T21:07:07Z")
Here are some nice simple remembrances of Dennett, by a couple of philosophers:
> **[Remembering Daniel Dennett](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/04/remembering-daniel-dennett.html)**
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> A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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### Author:  [@sfmatheson](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/sfmatheson)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/14 "2024-04-29T04:06:25Z")
I finally wrote up my remembrance of Dennett.
[https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2024/04/i-put-ways-of-childhood-behind-me-my.html](https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2024/04/i-put-ways-of-childhood-behind-me-my.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/daniel-c-dennett-widely-read-and-fiercely-debated-philosopher-dies-at-82/16641/15 "2024-05-06T04:06:28Z")
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