Archive for July, 2009

More on the Dennett debate: The 7 Questions

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

People have asked me to post the questions from the paper I presented at the Darwin Festival — the paper to which Dan Dennett responded in his verbal comments and in his blog on Dawkins’ website. Here’s the excerpt from the paper:

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Dan Dennett as a Model for Philosophy

Thursday, July 9, 2009

A few days ago I presented a paper during the Darwin Festival at the University of Cambridge. Although the session was entitled “Theology in Darwinian Context,” the paper was actually a plea for an open and inquiring form of philosophical discourse — for using the best of human reason to address the big questions of [...]

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