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Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Tags: Dan Dennett TED TEDTalks Talks philosophy evolution religion |
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Charlotte Dennett for Attorney General Dennett has been practicing law in Vermont since 1997 and has been an investigative journalist for more than 30 years. Vermonters deserve an Attorney General who will prosecute those who break the law, says Dennett. Vermonters pay a huge amount of money and a disproportionate share of soldiers lives in this illegal war. If our elected representatives will not act to hold President Bush accountable, it is up to us to use this final remaining tool. Tags: Charlotte Dennett Attorney General Election 2008 Prosecute Bush |
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Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes http://www.ted.com Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Tags: Dan Dennett ted tedtalks talks Darwinism philosophy memes "Breaking the Spell" |
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Part 1 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds? http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Tags: dan dennett talks philosophy ted tedtalks consciousness neuroscience |
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Tell VT to Elect Charlotte Dennett to Prosecute Bush, she'll appoint Vincent Bugliosi http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/11/tell-vt-to-elect-charlotte-dennett-to.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159315481X/ref=nosim/representativ-20 http://Tinyurl.com/ElectDennett Tags: Charlotte Dennett to Prosecute Bush The Prosecution George W. Murder prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi |
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Part 2 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 3 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 4 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 5 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 6 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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The Atheism Tapes - Daniel Dennett - The Soul A clip from The Atheism Tapes, brought to you by Alive Mind Media. Buy The Atheism Tapes DVD at http://www.secularphilosophy.com/ Tags: atheism tapes jonathan miller alive mind arthur richard dawkins steven weinberg colin mcginn dan dennett |
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Part 7 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 8 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 10 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens (1/12) On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen. All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion - some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public's reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face to world today, and propose new strategies for going forward. Credit: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science http://richarddawkins.net/ If you are interested in purchasing a high-quality DVD of The Four Horsemen, you can find it here: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14 (Note: All proceeds from the sale of this DVD will go to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust.) Tags: Atheism Richard Dawkins Daniel Dennett Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Religion Christianity Islam Four Horsemen |
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Part 11 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 9- Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 12 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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Part 13 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |
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D'Souza/Dennett Debate Commentary (part 2 of 6) Part two of a six part commentary on the Dinesh D'Souza/Daniel Dennett Debate. First video of the version of the debate I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw7J15TeDG4 The article "The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages" by Dr. Bernstein which I recommend in my commentary on the debate: http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-winter/tragedy-of-theology.asp Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate god philosophy theology evolution atheism humanities physical science social scienc |
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Daniel Dennett' speech @Atheist Alliance International (1/6) Daniel Dennett receives the "Richard Dawkins Award" at the AAI 07 conference in Washington, D.C. Part 2 link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxaCtPUZeNc Dawkins presenting Daniel Dennett the Richard Dawkins Award: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQl7fKcRLsU A philosopher by training, Daniel C. Dennett is known as the leading proponent of the computational model of the mind. He has made significant contributions in fields as diverse as evolutionary theory, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, animal studies, computer science among others. Never one to avoid a good fight, he has clashed with such noted thinkers as John Searle, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Jay Gould. In this regard, Dennett is emblematic of the third culture intellectual.The strength of the third culture is precisely that it can tolerate disagreements about which ideas are to be taken seriously. There is no canon or accredited list of acceptable ideas. Unlike previous intellectual pursuits, the achievements of the third culture are not the marginal disputes of a quarrelsome mandarin class: they affect the lives of everybody on the planet. "Dan Dennett is living proof that philosophy is not, as many think, airy speculation and effete musing.," notes Steven Pinker. "Time and again Dan has worked as a razor-sharp cognitive scientist, analyzing the implications of research more thoroughly than the researchers did themselves. His elucidation of different explanatory "stances" (physical, intentional, design) provided the key ideas behind mental modules (or multiple intelligences) for different domains of knowledge. His analyses of behaviorism, artificial intelligence, imagery, consciousness, free will, and evolutionary psychology just brim with insight and original ideas. And it doesn't seem fair that someone with such serious and important ideas should be so much fun to read!" Marc D. Hauser credits Dennett (along with Jerry Fodor) as one of the two empirical philosophers ? those who use data to drive philosophical discussion ? that has hs had an extraordinary impact on evolutionary studies of the mind. Although these two often hold quite radically different positions, they have each contributed in important ways to our understanding of the mind, and how psychological findings bear on profound philosophical distinctions. According to Hauser, "Dennett has had a significant impact on studies of animal cognition due in part to his work on the intentional stance and his intuitions about the kinds of inferences that humans and nonhuman animals might make with respect to other minds. When Dan laid out, in his typically lucid and playful fashion, how ethologists might go about studying intentionality from a Gricean perspective (I know that you know that I want that banana hidden from view from our fearless leader), this opened the door to a series of studies and analyses of animal behavior. "Most crucially, Dan's insight into the problem of other minds, and of using studies of false belief to test for such mental states, set forth a cottage industry of research in animals and human infants. It is the combination of Dan's playfulness and creativity that makes him an asset to those of us working on animal cognition. One is almost tempted to say that in the same way that imaging provides a tool for understanding the neurobiological and functional architecture of the human mind, Dennett represents a tool for those of us studying animal minds." Tags: Carl Sagan Daniel Dennett richard dawkins universe big bang atheist God Hawkins love atheism science majestic |
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Daniel Dennett - Is Evolution an Algorithmic Process? Part 1 Produced by: University of Washington November 19, 1998 From the Series: Danz Lecture Series Description: Daniel Dennett discusses his research into Darwin's evolutionary theory of natural selection and describes its suggestion of evolution as an algorithmic process. Speaker(s): Daniel C. Dennett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy; director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University Tags: Daniel Dennett Atheism Philosophy Algorithm Evolution |
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Daniel Dennett - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Part 1 Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and a grandson. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. [ase.tufts.edu] This is part 1 of 3. Tags: philosophy daniel dennett religion social evolution darwinism |
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Part 14 - Dinesh D'Souza Debates Daniel Dennett http://www.tothesource.org 6yrs of free weekly emails. tothesource has broadcasted over 300 weekly emails featuring informed opinion on current cultural issues. The articles address a variety of topics and the related moral and ethical issues they raise. Past tothesource articles are found on our archives page at http://www.tothesource.org/archives.php Subscribe to tothesource free weekly emails at http://www.tothesource.org/subscribe.htm Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, will face off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god. The resolution for the debate will be as follows: "God is a manmade invention." Daniel Dennett will be arguing the affirmative, and Dinesh D'Souza the negative. Tags: Dinesh D'Souza Daniel Dennett debate Christianity Atheism God |