[UCI Department of Philosophy | Up | UCI Libraries | UC Irvine]

Selected articles about DANIEL C. DENNETT

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

(Arranged Alphabetically by Author's Surname)
A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M
N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

A Top -- Up

Akins, Kathleen. "Lost the Plot? Reconstructing Dennett's Multiple Drafts Theory of Consciousness." Mind & Language (March 1996), 11(1):1-43.
Aldrich, Virgil C. The Body of a Person. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.
Aldrich, Virgil C. "Description and Expression: Physicalism Restricted." Inquiry (Summer 1977), 20:149-164.
Allen, Colin. "Mental Content." British Journal for Philosophy of Science (December 1992), 43(4):537-553.
Arrib, Michael A. "Consciousness: The Secondary Role of Language." Journal of Philosophy (October 5, 1972), 69:579-591.

B Top -- Up

Baker, Lynne Rudder. "Instrumental Intentionality." Philosophy of Science (June 1989), 56(2):303-316.
Bambrough, Renford. "Gasking and Geaching." Philosophy (April 1976), 51:129.
Baum, William M. and Jennifer L. Heath. "Behavioral Explanations and Intentional Explanations." American Psychologist (November 1992), 47:1312-1317.
Bechtel, W. "What Dennett's Intentional Stance Really Involves." Nous (1984), 18(1).
Beckermann, Ansgar. "Dennett's Stellung zum Funktionalismus." Erkenntnis (May 1986), 24:309-341.
Bilgrami, Akeel. "On McDowell on the Content of Perceptual Experience." Philosophical Quarterly (April 1994), 44(175):206-213.
See McDowell, John below.

Boddington, Paula and Tessa Podpadec. "Who are the Mentally Handicapped?" Journal of Applied Philosophy (1991), 8(2):177-190.

Bouveresse, Jacques. "`L'infallibilité' de l'introspection: Autour de Dennett et de Wittgenstein." Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie (1990), 122(2):217-233.

Bricke, John. "Consciousness and Dennett's Intentionalist Net." Philosophical Studies (September 1985), 48(2):249-256.

Bricke, John. "Dennett's Eliminative Arguments." Philosophical Studies (May 1984), 45:413-430.

Browne, D. Review of Bo Dahlbom, ed., Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (June 1996), 74(2):379-381.

C Top -- Up

Cam, Philip. "Dennett on Intelligent Storage." Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (December 1984), 45(2):247-261.
Cam. Philip. "Phenomenology and Speech Dispositions." Philosophical Studies (May 1985), 47(3):357-368.
Cam, Philip. "Propositions about Images." Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (December 1987), 48:335-338.
Charleton, Lawrence R. "The Population of China as One Mind." Philosophy Research Archives (1983), 9:665-674.
Churchland, Paul M. Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, pp. ix, 42n, 49n, 80n, 91n, 95n, 120n. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1984.
Clark, Andy. "Belief, Opinion and Consciousness." Philosophical Psychology (1990), 3(1):139-154.
Clark, Austen G. "Beliefs and Desires Incorporated." Journal of Philosophy (August 1994), 91(8):404-425.
Cody, Arthur B. "Darwin and Dennett: Still Two Mysteries." Inquiry (December 1996), 39(3-4):427-457.
Cohen, Brad. "Patterns Lost: Indeterminacy and Dennett's Realism about Beliefs." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (March 1995), 76(1):17-31.
Conee, Earl. "A Defense of Pain." Philosophical Studies (Summer 1984), 46:239-248.
Cooney, Brian. "Dennett's Fictional Selves." Southwestern Philosophical Review (January 1994), 10(1):117-124.
Cottingham, John C. "Functionalist Theories of the Mind." In Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind, p. 280. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cottingham, John C. "Homunculus." In Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind, p. 313. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cottrell, Allin. "'Tertium datur?' Reflections on Owen Flanagan's Consciousness Reconsidered." Philosophical Psychology (1995), 8(1):85-103.
Cummins, Robert. "What Can Be Learned from Brainstorms?" Philosophical Topics (Spring 1981), 12(1):83-92.

D Top -- Up

Dahl, Gregg. "Pascal and the Dawn of Artifical Intelligence." De Philosophia (1992), 9:47-52.
Davies, David. "Dennett's Stance on Intentional Realism." Southern Journal of Philosophy (Fall 1995), 33(3):299-312.
Davis, Martin. "The Philosophy of Mind." In A.C. Grayling, ed., Philosophy: A Guide through the Subject, pp. 261, 273, 276, 282-287, 302, 310. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Dawkins, Richard. "Is God a Computer Virus?" New Statesman & Society (December 18, 1992-January 1, 1993), 5:42-45.
De Gelder, Bea. "Machines en Mentaliteit." Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (September 1981), 43:538-558.
De Vries. Rob. "Ignoramus, Ignorabimus - Het Geest-Lichaam Probleem Tussen Ideologie en Objectiviteit." Kennis Methode (1980), 4:31-55.
Dibrell, William. "Persons and the Intentional Stance." Journal of Critical Analysis (1988), 9(1):13-25.
Draaisma, Douwe. "De Angst Van de Homunculusd voor Hetscheermes." Kennis en Methode (1984), 8:225-239.
Dretske, Fred. "Does Meaning Matter?" In Enrique Villaneuva, ed., Information, Semantics & Epistemology, pp. 5, 14-15. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990.

E Top -- Up

Ellis, Ralph D. "Afferent-Efferent Connections and Neutrality-Modifications in Perceptual and Imaginative Consciousness." Man & World (January 1990), 23(1):23.
Emmett, Kathleen. "Oneiric Experiences." Philosophical Studies (November 1978), 34:445-450.
Engel, Pascal. Review of Bo Dahlbom, ed., Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger (October-December 1996), 4:571-572.
Engel, Pascal. Review of Dennett's "Intentional Systems in Cognitive Ethology" (1983). Critique (1989), 45(510):864-883.

F Top -- Up

Faucher, L. "Consciousness and Fiction: A Strategy for the Interpretation of the Phenomenological Worlds." Stanford French Review (1992), 16(2):229-247.
Feil, Kiersten. "Two Philosophical Interpretations of Biology and Evolutionary Theory." B.A. Thesis, Bucknell University, (1996.
Flanagan, Owen. Consciousness Reconsidered. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.
Fodor, Jerry. "Deconstructing Dennett's Darwin." Mind & Language (September 1996), 11(3):246-262.
Fodor, Jerry. "`The Problem of Consciousness'." [Letter] TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (June 7, 1991), 4601:15.
On Dennett's Review of Colin McGinn's book The Problem of Consciousness.

Fodor, Jerry and Ernest Lepore. Holism: A Shopper's Guide. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1991.

Foss, Jeffrey. "On the Evolution of Intentionality as Seen from the Intentional Stance." Inquiry (September 1994), 37(3):287-310.

G Top -- Up

Gallagher, R. "Consciousness Explained: Reply to George Johnson's Review of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained." [Letter] New York Times Book Review (December 22, 1991):4.
For George Johnson's Review see New York Times Book Review (November 10, 1991):1.

Gardenfors, Peter. "The Social Stance." Protosoz (1994), 6:90-94.

Garrett, K. Richard. "Elbow Room in a Functional Analysis: Freedom and Dignity Regained." Behaviorism (Spring 1985), 13(1):21-36.

Gava, Giacomo. Cervello-Mente: pensatori del xx secolo. Trieste: Editre Edizioni, 1994.

Gibson, Roger F. "Review of 'Dennett Panel' of Rudolf Fara's "In Conversation: W.V. Quine" [Video]." Mind (July 1995), 104(415):637-645.

Gilman. Danile. "Optimization and Simplicity: Computational Vision and Biological Explanation." Synthese. (June 1996), 107(3):293-323.

Gianella, Alicia E. "Las explicaciones homunculares de la irracionalidad." In Oscar Nudler, ed., La racionalidad: su poder y sus limites. Barcelona: Paidos, 1996.

Globus, Gordon G. "Temporality in Dreams: A Heideggerian Critique of Dennett's Dream Theory." Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (May 1986), 17(2):186-192.

Goldstein, Laurence. "The Fallacy of the Simple Question." Analysis (July 1993), 53(3):178-181.

Goodman, Michael. "A Sufficient Condition for Personhood." Personalist Forum (Spring 1992), 8(1), Supplement:75-81.

Goodman, Nelson. "On Thoughts Without Words." Cognition (September 1982), 12(2):211-217.

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism." New York Review of Books (June 26, 1997), 44(11):47-52.

Gozzano, Simone. "Rationality, Folk Psychology, and the Belief-Opinion Distinction." Acta Analytica (1994):113-123.

Griffiths, Paul E. "The Cronin Controversy." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (March 1995), 46(1):122-137.

Gunderson, Keith. "Content and Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem." Journal of Philosophy (October 5, 1972), 69:591-604.

Gunther, Richard. "Perceptual Content and the Subpersonal." Conference (Summer 1995), 6(1):31-45.

Gutierrez, Claudio. "La explicacion de la mente: a proposito de un libro de Daniel Dennett." Revista de Filosofia [Costa Rica] (July 1993), 31(74):17-27.

H Top -- Up

Heyes, Cecilia M. "Contrasting Approaches to the Legitimation of Intentional Language within Comparative Psychology." Behaviorism (Fall 1986), 14(2):125-138.
Honderich, Ted. "`A Theory of Determinism'." [Letter] TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (November 18-24, 1988), 4468:1279.
Horne, James. "The Experience of Dreaming." Philosophical Forum (Summer 1984), 15:459-470.
Horstmann, R.P. "What Kind of Freedom Does Morality Need: Kant and Dennett on Free Will." (In German) Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1991), 39(6):661-674.
Hrachovec, Herbert. "Philosophie Ohne Psychologie, Philosophie Vermischt mit Psychologie, Philosophie der Psychologie." Philosophische Rundschau (1983), 30:44-58.
Hunter, G. Review of Bo Dahlbom, ed., Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind. Philosophical Investigations 1997), 20(2):174-179.
Hutto, Daniel. "Consciousness Demystified: A Wittgensteinian Critique of Dennett's Project." Monist (October 1995), 78(4):464-479.

J Top -- Up

Jackson, Frank and Philip Pettit. "Some Content is Narrow." In John Heil and Alfred Mele, eds., Mental Causation. New York: Oxford University Press; Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Jaynes, Julian. "Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind: Response to the Discussants." Canadian Journal of Psychology (1986), 27(2):169-173.
Johnsen, Bredo. "Dennett on Qualia and Consciousness: A Critique." Canadian Journal of Philosophy (March 1997), 27(1):47-71.

K Top -- Up

Khalfa, Jean. "Présentation de Daniel C. Dennett." Philosophie (January 1984), 1:47-54.
Kaufman, Rick. "Is the Concept of Pain Incoherent?" Southern Journal of Philosophy (Summer 1985), 23:279-284.
Kerby, A.P. "Emotions, Selves, Narratives, and Taylor." De Philosophia (1988-89), 8:1-19.
Kirk, Robert. "'The Best Set of Tools': Dennett's Metaphors and the Mind-Body Problem." Philosophical Quarterly (July 1993), 43(172):335-343.
Knight, D. "Selves, Interpreters, Narrators." Philosophy and Literature (October 1994), 18(2):274-286.

L Top -- Up

Leon, Mark. "The Mechanics of Rationality." Southern Journal of Philosophy (Fall 1990), 28(3):343-366.
Lormand, Eric. "Framing the Frame Problem." Synthese (March 1990), 82(3):353-374.
Lumsden, David. "Daniel C. Dennett's The Intentional Stance." Erkenntnis (July 1993), 39(1):101-109.
Lycan, William G. "Epistemic Value." Synthese (August 1985), 64:137-164.
Lyons, William. "Intentionality and Modern Philosophical Psychology: I. The Modern Reduction of Intentionality." Philosophical Psychology (1990), 3(2-3):247-269.
Lyons, William. "The Tiger and His Stripes." Analysis (March 1984), 44(2):93-95.

M Top -- Up

McCulloch, Gregory. "Dennett's Little Grains of Salt." Philosophical Quarterly (January 1990), 40(158):1-12.
McDonough, Richard. "Toward a Non-Mechanistic Theory of Meaning." Mind (January 1989), 98(389):1-21.
McDowell, John. "The Content of Perceptual Experience." Philosophical Quarterly (April 1994), 44(175):196-205.
See Bilgrami, Akeel above.

McGinn, Colin. "Consciousness Evaded: Comments on Dennett." In James E. Tomberlin, ed., AI, Connectionism and Philosophical Psychology. Philosophical Perspectives, 9. Ridgeview: Atascadero, 1995.

McGinn, Colin. "`The Problem of Consciousness'." [Letter] TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (May 31, 1991), 4660:15.

MacLean-Tollefsen, Laurie. "`Intuition Pumps' and Contemporary Philosophy." Lyceum (Fall 1989), 1(2):61-67.

Maloney, J. Christopher. "About Being a Bat." Australasian Journal of Philosophy (March 1985), 63:26-49.

Meijsing, Monica. "Cognitiewetenschap zonder functionalisme." Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte (October 1989), 81(4):304-321.

Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism, pp. 63, 336n4, 337n2, 339n3, 341n7. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1984.

Morris, Michael. "Why There are No Mental Representations." Minds and Machines (February 1991), 1(1):1-30.

Mosconi, M. Jean et al. "Sur quelques capacitiés et incapacités des machines." Bulletin de la Société Française de Philosophie (July-September 1991), 85(3):81-119.

N Top -- Up

Nagel, Thomas. Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Includes "7. Dennett: Content and Consciousness"; "8. Dennett: Consciousness Dissolved."

Nagel, Thomas. The View from Nowhere, p. 63n4. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Nelkin, Norton. "Patterns." Mind & Language (March 1994), 9(1):56-87.

Newton, Natika. "Dennett on Intrinsic Intentionality." Analysis (January 1992), 52(1):18-23.

Newton, Natika. "Other Minds." In Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind, p. 571. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Nicolson, Stewart. "Illusions of Consciousness." Dialogue (Fall 1995), 34(4):769-775.

A Top -- Up

Park, James. Icons: An A-Z Guide to the People Who Shaped Our Time, p. 109. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1991.
Peterson, Gregory R. "Minds and Bodies: Human and Divine." Zygon (June 1997), 32(2):189-207.
Pettit, Philip. "Verstehen." In Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind, p. 787. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Proust, Joelle. "Time and Conscious Experience" In Carol C. Gould and Robert S. Cohen, eds., Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice: Essays for Marx Wartofsky. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 154. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.

R Top -- Up

Radner, Daisie M. "Heterophenomenology: Learning about the Birds and the Bees." Journal of Philosophy (August 1994), 91(8):389-403.
Radner, Daisie and Michael Radner. Animal Consciousness. Buffalo: Prometheus, 1989.
Rakover, Sam S. "Consciousness Explained? A Commentary on Dennett's Consciousness Explained." International Studies in Philosophy (1994), 26(2):97-99.
Ravenscroft, Ian. "Dennett's Combinatorial Explosion Argument Agains Brains in Vats." Australasian Journal of Philosophy (June 1994), 72(2):233-235.
Revonsuo, Antii. "Consciousness, Dreams, and Virtual Realities." Philosophical Psychology (1995), 8(1):35-58.
Revonsuo, Antii. "Is There a Ghost in the Cognitive Machinery?." Philosophical Psychology (1993), 6(4):387-405.
Ringen, J. "Dennett's Intentions and Darwin Legacy." Behavioral & Brain Sciences (June 1993), 16(2):386-389.
Robinson, Howard. "Dennett on the Knowledge Argument." Analysis (July 1993), 53(3):174-177.
Robinson, William S. "Orwell, Stalin, and determinate Qualia." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (June 1994), 75(2):151-164.
Robinson, William S. and David A. Kline. "Dennett's Dilemma." Journal of Critical Analysis (Summer-Fall 1979), 8:1-4.
Rockwell, Teed. "Awareness, Mental Phoneomena and Consciousness: A Synthesis of Dennett and Rosenthal." Journal of Consciousness Studies (1999), 3(5-6):463-476.
Ross, Don. "On Dennett's Conditions of Personhood." Behavior and Philosophy (Spring-Summer1994), 22(1):41-52.
Ross, Don. "Quining Qualia Quine's Way." Dialogue (Summer 1993), 32(3):439-459.
Rorty, Richard. "Comments on Dennett's `How to Study Human Consciousness Empirically'." Synthese (November 1982), 53:181-187.
Rorty, Richard. "Dennett on Awareness." Philosophical Studies (April 1972), 23:153-162.
Rosenberg, Alexander. "Intentional Psychology and Evolutionary Biology: II. The Crucial Disanalogy." Behaviorism (Fall 1986), 14(2):125-138.
Ross, Don and Chantale LaCasse. "Towards a New Philosophy of Positive Economics." Dialogue (Summer 1995), 34(3):467-493.
Russow, Lilly-Marlene. "Denett, Mental Images, and Images in Context." Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (June 1985), 45(4):581-593.

S Top -- Up

Saab, Salma. "Una posicion Intermedia entre el Fisicalismo y el Intencionalismo: Dennett." Critica (April-August 1979), 26(76-77):205-227.
Searle, John. "The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange." [Letter] New York Review of Books (June 24, 1982), 29(11):56-57.
Sellars, Wilfrid. "Reply." Synthese (July-August 1974), 27:457-466.
Simpson, Paul. "Lyons and Tigers." Analysis (1985), 45(3) [207]:169-171.
See William Lyons,"The Tiger and His Stripes," Analysis (March 1984), 44(2):93-95.

Skokowski, Paul G. "Can Computers Carry Content Inexplicitly." Minds & Machines (August 1994), 4(3):333-344.

Slors, Marc. "Why Dennett Cannot Explain What It is to Adopt the Intentional Stance." Philosophical Quarterly (January 1996), 46(182):93-98.

Sober, Elliott. "Panglossian Functionalism and the Philosophy of Mind." Synthese (August 1985), 64:165-194.

Stich, Stephen P. "Could Man be an Irrational Animal? Some Notes on the Epistemology of Rationality." Synthese (July 1985), 64:115-134.

Stich, Stephen P. "Dennett on Intentional Systems." Philosophical Topics (Spring 1981), 12(1):39-62.
Reprinted in William G. Lycan, ed., Mind and Cognition: A Reader, pp. 167-184. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Stjernberg, Fredrik. "A Note from your Local Vat Operator." Analysis (July 1993), 53(3):182-183.

Strander, George M. "Tropism and Equivocation: Notes on Dennett's `Mechanism and Responsibility'." Auslegung (Summer 1988), 14:171-184.

T Top -- Up

Tye, Michael. "Reflections on Dennett and Consciousness." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1993), 53(4):893-898.

V Top -- Up

Vallicella, W. "Consciousness and Intentionality: Illusions." Idealistic Studies (January 1991), 21(1):79-89.
Van Inwagen, Peter. "Dennett on `Could Have Done Otherwise'." [Abstract] Journal of Philosophy (October 1984), 81(10):565-567.
Commentary on Dennett's "I Could Not Have Done Otherwise--So What?" (1984)

W Top -- Up

Waller, Bruce N. "Daniel Dennett on Responsibility." Southern Journal of Philosophy (Fall 1984), 22(3):413-424.
Waller, Bruce N. "Responsibility and the Self-Made Self." Analysis (January 1993), 53(1):45-51.
Ward, Andrew. "The Failure of Dennett's Representationalism: A Wittgensteinian Resolution." Journal of Philosophical Research (1993), 18:285-307.
Ward, Andrew. "Hume and the Problem of Representation." Philosophical Papers (April 1988), 18:97-106.
Ward, Andrew. "Mental Representations and Intentional Behavior." Southwest Philosophy Review (January 1988), 4:95-101.
Ward, Andrew. "Representationalism and `Hume's Problem'." Southern Journal of Philosophy (Fall 1988), 26:423-430.
Ward, Andrew. "The Role of Homunculi in Psychology." Dialogos (July 1990), 25(56):157-165.
Williams, Meredith. "Beyond the Infinite Regress." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (October 1980), 10:211-230.
Wilson, David C. "Functionalism and Moral Personhood: One View Considered." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (June 1984), 44(4):521-529.
Worley, Sara. "Belief and Consciousness." Philosophical Psychology (March 1997), 10(1):41-55.
Wright, Edmond. "Querying 'Quining Qualia'." " Acta Analytica (1989):9-32.
Wright, Robert. "Can Machines Think? Maybe so, as Deep Blue's chess prowess suggests. And that sparks a fresh debate about the nature of the mind. Is it just neurons?" Time (March 25, 1996), 147(13):50-56.
Wuketits, Franz. "Consciousness Explained--or Explained Away?" Acta Analytica (1994): 55-64.

Y Top -- Up

Young, Frederic C. "On Dennett's Conditions of Personhood." Auslegung (June 1979), 6:161-177.
Yu, Paul and Gary Fuller. "A Critique of Dennett." Synthese (March 1986), 66(3):453-476.

[UCI Department of Philosophy |Up]