Another line of criticism disputes the accuracy of Dennett's characterisations of existing theories:

According to Hankins, Dieter Teichert suggests that Paul Ricoeur's theories agree with Dennett's on the notion that " the self is basically a narrative entity, and that any attempt to give it a free-floating independent status is misguided.

Initially, Dennett's interpretation was seen as leaning more towards instrumentalism, but over the years, as this idea has been used to support more extensive theories of consciousness, it has been taken as being more like Realism.

; Dennett's reply from natural selection: Suppose that, by some mutation, a human being is born that does not have Searle's " causal properties " but nevertheless acts exactly like a human being.

Leading libertarian philosophers such as Robert Kane have rejected Dennett's model, specifically that random chance is directly involved in a decision, on the basis that they believe this eliminates the agent's motives and reasons, character and values, and feelings and desires.

Strong disagreements have been launched against Dennett from Gould and his supporters, who allege that Dennett overstated his claims and misrepresented Gould's to reinforce what Gould describes as Dennett's " Darwinian fundamentalism ".

Again, Dennett's argument is that we may not have behavioral choice, but we do have control of our behavior.

Some say that Dennett's theory does not satisfactorily deal with the issue of why we feel so strongly that we do have behavioral choice.

Dennett's views on evolution are identified as being strongly adaptationist, in line with his theory of the intentional stance, and the evolutionary views of biologist Richard Dawkins.

Dennett's main argument is that the various properties attributed to qualia by philosophers — qualia are supposed to be incorrigible, ineffable, private, directly accessible and so on — are incompatible, so the notion of qualia is incoherent.

Theseus's paradox bears also on the question of virtual human identity discussed in Douglas Hofstadter's and Daniel Dennett's The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul ( 1981 ).

It attempts to give an account of free will and moral responsibility which is complementary to Dennett's other views on consciousness and personhood.

Dennett's stance on free will is compatibilism with an evolutionary twist – the view that, although in the strict physical sense our actions might be pre-determined, we can still be free in all the ways that matter, because of the abilities we evolved.

The point of contention is whether Dennett's own definitions are indeed more accurate, whether what we think of when we speak of perceptions and consciousness can be understood in terms of nothing more than their effect on behaviour.

* Dennett's finest bowling feat: 15 wickets on an unhelpful pitch

Dennett's opinion on why women deserved the vote was simple: " Our basic principles that ' governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed ' [...] undeniably imply the right of women to direct representation by the vote, since women are governed and women are people.

Much of Dennett's work since the 1990s has been concerned with fleshing out his previous ideas by addressing the same topics from an evolutionary standpoint, from what distinguishes human minds from animal minds ( Kinds of Minds ), to how free will is compatible with a naturalist view of the world ( Freedom Evolves ).

The origin of this operationalist approach can be found in Dennett's immediately preceding work.

Dennett's work to re-elect Woodrow Wilson ( under the belief that he would not declare war ) led to a respected job as executive secretary for the League for Progressive Democracy.

Dennett's sister is the investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett.

In Consciousness Explained, Dennett's interest in the ability of evolution to explain some of the content-producing features of consciousness is already apparent, and this has since become an integral part of his program.

* Don Ross, Andrew Brook and David Thompson ( editors ) ( 2000 ) Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Gould responded to Dennett's claims in The New York Review of Books, and in his technical volume The Structure of Evolutionary Theory.

Dennett's view of consciousness is that it is the apparently serial account for the brain's underlying parallelism.

Research subsequent to Dennett's book indicates that some of his postulations were more conservative than expected.

Critics of Dennett's approach, such as David Chalmers and Thomas Nagel, argue that Dennett's argument misses the point of the inquiry by merely redefining consciousness as an external property and ignoring the subjective aspect completely.

Searle says that in Dennett's view, there is no consciousness in addition to the computational features, because that is all that consciousness amounts to for him: mere effects of a von Neumann ( esque ) virtual machine implemented in a parallel architecture and therefore implies that conscious states are illusory, but Searle points out: " where consciousness is concerned, the existence of the appearance is the reality.

For example, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry published an article by Chris Mooney titled " Not Too ' Bright '" in which he stated that, although he agreed with the movement, Richard Dawkins ' and Daniel Dennett's " campaign to rename religious unbelievers ' brights ' could use some rethinking " because of the possibility that the term would be misinterpreted.

* Dennett and the Darwinizing of Free Will — A review of Dennett's book Freedom Evolves, by David P. Barash.

One way to summarize the difference between the Churchlands's views and Dennett's view is that the Churchlands are eliminativists when it comes to propositional attitudes, but reductionists concerning qualia, while Dennett is an anti-reductionist with respect to propositional attitudes, and an eliminativist concerning qualia.

Critics of Dennett's approach, such as David Chalmers and Thomas Nagel, argue that Dennett's argument misses the point of the inquiry by merely re-defining consciousness as an external property and ignoring the subjective aspect completely.

This has led detractors to refer to Dennett's book Consciousness Explained as Consciousness Ignored or Consciousness Explained Away.

Other theories of origin are compatible with the formulaic theory: Beowulf may contain a design for terror, and The Iliad may have a vast hysteron-proteron pattern answering to a ceramic pattern produced during the Geometric Period in pottery.

One night, so some of these theories run, Adam would have fallen asleep, much as he fell asleep for the creation of Eve ; ;

A number of theories have been proposed as explanations as well as criticisms regarding its existence.

Topics like racism, slavery or human sacrifice, therefore, attract anthropological attention and theories ranging from nutritional deficiencies to genes to acculturation have been proposed, not to mention theories of colonialism and many others as root causes of Man's inhumanity to man.

Tylor in particular laid the groundwork for theories of cultural diffusionism, stating that there are three ways that different groups can have similar cultural forms or technologies: " independent invention, inheritance from ancestors in a distant region, transmission from one race to another.

Wittowsky argues that not enough critics have taken the time to focus directly on the mercantilism and theories of labor in 18th century England.

The idea of negative matter appears in past theories of matter that have now been abandoned.

Some theories have been put forward that the anthropocentric belief in animism among early humans was the basis for the later evolution of religions.

A number of theories have been proposed to explain the two figures, and there are occasional references to them in popular culture.

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

Both aspects have steadily developed into substantial theories.

In addition to omitting the axiom of regularity, non-standard set theories have indeed postulated the existence of sets that are elements of themselves.

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

Two theories of the direct initiation of apoptotic mechanisms in mammals have been suggested: the TNF-induced ( tumour necrosis factor ) model and the Fas-Fas ligand-mediated model, both involving receptors of the TNF receptor ( TNFR ) family coupled to extrinsic signals.

Some philosophers who have had more noteworthy theories are Parmenides, Leucippus, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Plotinus, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre.

These two factors combined with others have obscured the history of the Baltic languages, leading to a number of theories regarding their position in the Indo-European family.

The origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.

Some scholars disagree, and have proposed other theories.

This is different from other field theories like electromagnetism, which do not have any friction or resistivity at the microscopic level, because they are time-reversible.

There are many theories about how the word " cipher " may have come to mean " encoding ":

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.