Professor Dennett wins Erasmus Prize
Tufts' own Professor of Philosophy, Dan Dennett, has won the Erasmus Prize for "a person or institution which has made an exceptionally contribution to culture in Europe." From the announcement:
Daniel Dennett is a strong advocate for the power of thinking. He has taken up the major cultural questions of our time, questions that have defined our self-image, such as: where do we come from and what is consciousness? As a philosopher he has addressed these fundamental questions and has added new and groundbreaking insights to other fields of study. Daniel Dennett has chosen a wide range of themes in his work, from religion and Darwinism to consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Professor Dennett is teaching two classes this semester, one just for freshmen and sophomores, A Toolkit for Thinking, and one for philosophy and cognitive and brain studies majors, Artificial Agents and Autonomy.
You can watch Professor Dennett give a lecture on his specialty, Charles Darwin: