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Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daniel Dennett: Autobiography (Part 1) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodreads Authors )〕 is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields related to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.〔Beardsley, T. (1996) ''Profile: Daniel C. Dennett – Dennett's Dangerous Idea'', Scientific American 274(2), 34–35.〕 He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is an atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daniel Dennett )〕 as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Preview: The Four Horsemen of New Atheism reunited )〕 ==Early life and education== Dennett was born on March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth Marjorie (née Leck) and Daniel Clement Dennett, Jr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daniel C. Dennett Biography )〕 Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut. When he was five, his mother took him back to Massachusetts after his father died in an unexplained plane crash. Dennett says that he was first introduced to the notion of ''philosophy'' while attending summer camp at age 11, when a camp counselor said to him, "You know what you are, Daniel? You're a philosopher."〔Dennett in conversation with Michio Kaku on ''(Explorations )'' radio program (broadcast on KPFA-FM, Berkeley, California, June 12, 2012)〕 Dennett graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1959, and spent one year at Wesleyan University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Harvard University in 1963. At Harvard University he was a student of W. V. Quine. In 1965, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he studied under Gilbert Ryle and was a member of Christ Church. Dennett's sister is the investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett.〔 Dennett describes himself as "an autodidact—or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials on all the fields that interest me, from some of the world's leading scientists." He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.〔(American Scientist )〕 He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Council for Secular Humanism )〕 He was named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Humanists of the Year )〕 In February 2010, he was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers. In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, "for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Erasmus Prize 2012 Awarded to Daniel C. Dennett )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Dennett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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