Fantastic news that Andy Clark is the inaugural winner of the #DennettPrize, in honour of Daniel Dennett. Congrats Andy 🍾🍾🍾 super-well deserved @sussexuni.bsky.social https://hardproblem.it/projects/the-dennett-prize/
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All love to Andy Clark but this is pretty funny, given that they were contemporaries… I hope they were on good terms! Dennett’s legacy is well honored by this inauguration either way 🥲
Fair enough! I feel like most (casual) fans know him by *Consciousness, Explained* these days, or just, like, YouTube debates. So that probably biased my view.
A good reminder I need to actually finish *Brainstorms*!
Indeed, it was a highly influential book —and, if I'm not mistaken, people like Chalmers and Godfrey-Smith cite that book as one of the main inspirations for going to work on phil of mind.
I wonder what could be said to be equivalent for those of us that got in all this mess (lol) the last decade!
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Say congrats to Andy anyway if you go.
Dennett's first book was 1969, and Clark's was 1989. So there was really a generational breach between them.
But I get your point, and, indeed, Clark is an amazing example of the way of doing philosophy that Dennett made available to us.
A good reminder I need to actually finish *Brainstorms*!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I
I wonder what could be said to be equivalent for those of us that got in all this mess (lol) the last decade!
They were surely working at the same time (from the late 80's to the present).
Maybe I was thinking about the "contemporary" issue more generationally.
And, in that case, Dennett's contemporaries were, IMHO, Davidson, Fodor, etc. 🤔