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Daniel Clement Dennett III was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ruth Marjorie and Daniel Clement Dennett Jr. -
Graduates from Phillip Exeter Academy, one of the oldest boarding school's in the country. -
Spends one year at Wesleyan University before transferring to Harvard.
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Spends the rest of his undergraduate education at Harvard where he graduates with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
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Graduates from the University of Oxford with his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy.
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Was a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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He has been a professor at Tufts University since 1971
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His book, Consciousness Explained, was published. This book explains how consciousness comes to be from both physical and cognitive interactions in the brain. -
the book Darwin's Dangerous Idea is published. This book explains how the brain is influenced and ideas evolve due to natural selection. -
Dennett was awarded this for his lecture, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness. This award is presented to leading philosophers of the mind or cognitive scientists
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The book is published. It dives into the idea that religion is not above scientific questioning, and how this questioning could further our knowledge into the future of religion. -
Awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for making exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe or the entire world. -
https://youtu.be/v9dZeJ3owGg
Dennett explains how ideas such as religion and world views are all evolutionary traits of the brain. He also explains why Artificially Intelligent robots are not something we should be trying to create. -
As of the posting of this timeline, Daniel C. Dennett is still alive and employed by Tufts University.