KnowraDaniel DennettLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Daniel Dennett, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 5Compared with 5Hard problem of consciousnessCompared with: His critique rejects the idea that qualia pose the extra mystery Chalmers describes.Eliminative materialismCompared with: His intentional stance preserves belief-and-desire explanations as useful, contrasting with wholesale elimination.New AtheismRelated: He argued that religion should be studied as a natural phenomenon in Breaking the Spell.Mind–body dualismCompared with: His naturalistic account challenges dualist interpretations of conscious experience.Thomas NagelCompared with: Dennett’s approach to consciousness directly opposes the explanatory limits Nagel emphasizes.Metaphysical naturalismRelated: Dennett applied naturalist explanation to topics often treated as resisting it.Jerry FodorCompared with: Dennett’s approach to intentional explanation differs from Fodor’s representational realism.Susan BlackmoreRelated: Dennett’s evolutionary account of minds intersects with Blackmore’s treatment of memes and consciousness.Douglas HofstadterRelated: Dennett shares Hofstadter’s naturalistic approach to explaining consciousness and the self.Michael ShermerRelated: Dennett shared Shermer’s public-facing naturalistic critique of supernatural explanations.