The middle ground, roughly halfway between poetry and mathe… - Daniel Dennett

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The middle ground, roughly halfway between poetry and mathematics, is where philosophers can make their best contributions, I believe, yielding genuine clarifications of deeply puzzling problems.

Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centered on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology.

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Birth Name: Daniel Clement Dennett III

Native Name: Daniel Clement Dennett

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