[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 179 KB, 1008x672, angrysanta.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6299478 No.6299478 [Reply] [Original]

Is Dan Dennett a legitimate philosopher or is he just a meme?

what are some of his contributions to philosophy? What does he do other than arguing with anti-intellectuals like Harris, Dawkins and Krauss?

>> No.6299486

That dude is a god damn retard and proof that work ethic > intelligence.

>> No.6299491

He's right about free will, though is terrible at explaining it. He's great at taking down dualist theories of consciousness. He's wrong about reducibility and AI. And his fedora atheism is obviously annoying.

>> No.6299511

What's the point if you will never read him anyway?

You were going to get all of your info off of Wiki and Youtube, weren't you?

>> No.6299516

He took down Cartesian dualism but nobody has taken that seriously for decades anyway.
Other than that, I dunno, he doesn't seem to have done anything particularly significant

>> No.6299567

>>6299511
Why do you not consider lectures to be a legitimate medium of learning?

>> No.6299596

>>6299516
>He took down Cartesian dualism
Hard to take down something that's already down

>> No.6299687
File: 22 KB, 312x500, Good.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6299687

>>6299478
This was pretty good.

>> No.6299695

>>6299567
Could be all those pedagogical studies by educationalists, nah fuck that.

>> No.6299701

>>6299478
one look at the guy he's a meme. he hasnt even been through war

>> No.6299814
File: 292 KB, 724x465, 1424731983214.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6299814

>>6299596
Precisely, it's pure ideology on his part and on that of anyone who would bother arguing for it.