Daniel C. Dennett

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Daniel C. Dennett is professor of philsophy at Tufts, and author of several books including Breaking the Spell, Freedom Evolves and Darwin's Dangerous Idea. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1942,[1] the son of a historian of the same name, and grew up in New England. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy and Wesleyan College, he received his BA in philosophy from Harvard College in 1965. Richard Dawkins has called him his intellectual hero.

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