Editing Daniel Dennett (section)

==Academic career==
In 1965, Dennett received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|DPhil]] in philosophy at the [[University of Oxford]], where he studied under [[Gilbert Ryle]] and was a member of [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]].<ref name="In-depth interview with Daniel Dennett">{{citation |url=https://highprofiles.info/interview/daniel-dennett/ |title=In-depth interview with Daniel Dennett |last=Spencer |first=Nick |date=2013 |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-date=October 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182402/https://highprofiles.info/interview/daniel-dennett/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> His doctoral dissertation was entitled ''The Mind and the Brain: Introspective Description in the Light of Neurological Findings; Intentionality''.<ref>{{cite thesis|first=Daniel C. |last=Dennett |date=1965 |title=The mind and the brain: introspective description in the light of neurological findings: intentionality|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:26d813f7-6a94-4bb6-b34e-d06743d607e9|website=Oxford University Research Archive|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=24 October 2017|archive-date=October 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182247/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:26d813f7-6a94-4bb6-b34e-d06743d607e9|url-status=live}}</ref>

From 1965 to 1971, Dennett taught at the [[University of California, Irvine]], before moving to [[Tufts University]] where he taught for many decades.<ref name="kandell_04192024" /><ref name=":0" /> He also spent periods visiting at [[Harvard University]] and several other universities.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sites.tufts.edu/cogstud/daniel-dennett/ | title=Daniel Dennett &#124; Center for Cognitive Studies }}</ref> Dennett described himself as "an [[Autodidacticism|autodidact]]—or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials on all the fields that interest me, from some of the world's leading scientists".<ref name="what_I_want_to_be">{{Citation |last=Dennett |first=Daniel C. |editor=John Brockman |editor-link=John Brockman (literary agent) |title=Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist |orig-year=2004 |year= 2005 |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |isbn=1-4000-7686-2 |chapter=What I Want to Be When I Grow Up |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/curiousmindshowc0000unse }}</ref>

Throughout his career, he was an interdisciplinarian who argued for "breaking the silos of knowledge", and he collaborated widely with computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and biologists.<ref name="natureObit" />

Dennett was the recipient of a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] and two [[Guggenheim Fellowships]].