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The late Daniel Dennett on consciousness, faith, and more

Daniel Dennett gives a lecture, ‘From Bacteria to Bach and Back,’ at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in October, 2017.
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Daniel Dennett gives a lecture, ‘From Bacteria to Bach and Back,’ at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in October, 2017.

Daniel Dennett was one of the most famous philosophers in the world, one of the so-called “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism.”

Dennett died April 19 at age 82.

This hour, our 2015 conversation with Daniel Dennett, as recorded onstage at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.

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