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.

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.

Daniel Dennett's multiple drafts model of consciousness is a physicalist theory of consciousness based upon cognitivism, which views the mind in terms of information processing.

The distinction is that Dennett's theory denies any clear and unambiguous boundary separating conscious experiences from all other processing.

Much of the criticism asserts that Dennett's theory attacks the wrong target, failing to explain what it claims to.

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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

And Dennett is at times aggravatingly smug and confident about the merits of his arguments [...] All in all Dennett's book is annoying, frustrating, insightful, provocative and above all annoying.

Heath, Oxford: Oxford University Press ; originally presented as a Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford in November 1979 ; also published as chapter 2 in Dennett's book The Intentional Stance ).

* Dan Dennett's 2003 talk at TED shows some visual illusions including several striking examples of change blindness.

Dennett's trial was part of a series of rulings that culminated in the 1936 ruling in United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, which exempted birth control information and materials used by physicians from obscenity laws.

; 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.

Dennett's sister is the investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The key role of heterophenomenology in Dennett's philosophy of consciousness is that it defines all that can or needs to be known about the mind.

Dennett's thesis is that our modern understanding of consciousness is unduly influenced by the ideas of René Descartes.

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's theories have had a significant influence on the work of evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller.

* 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.

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.

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

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.

The Rusk belief in balanced defense, replacing the Dulles theory of massive retaliation, removes a grave danger that has existed.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

Nevertheless, the theory that the determining influence of the hypothalamic balance has a profound influence on the clinical behavior of neuropsychiatric patients has not yet been tested on an adequate number of patients.

We should expect that general phonologic theory should be as adequate for tone as for consonants and vowels, but it has not been.

Social theory has no more right to expect results from meaningless questions, than physics has the right to expect a theological solution to the wave-particle controversy.

This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind, and this I will do my best to supply.

-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.

-- The theory of elasticity of Gaussian networks has been developed on a more general basis and the equations of state relating variables of pressure, volume, temperature, stress and strain have been precisely formulated.

Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy.

Group selection theory has criticized by many other evolutionary scientists.

Connes has applied his work in areas of mathematics and theoretical physics, including number theory, differential geometry and particle physics.

Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

Anthropology has been used in Britain to provide an alternative explanation for the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 to the technical explanations rooted in economic and political theory.

Brønsted-Lowry acid-base theory has several advantages over Arrhenius theory.

*: The article on Whorf states " Drawing on Nietzsche's ideas of perspectivism Alfred Korzybski developed the theory of general semantics which has been compared to Whorf's notions of linguistic relativity.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex analysis, topology and number theory.

Within algebraic geometry itself, his theory of schemes has become the universally accepted language for all further technical work.

His construction of new cohomology theories has left deep consequences for algebraic number theory, algebraic topology, and representation theory.

His creation of topos theory has had an impact on set theory and logic.