Evolution and the Meanings of Life | Evolutionary ideas appear in many places in Dennett's earlier writings; he is one of the few philosophers who really seems at home with them...

An article by Stephen Jay Gould from The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1997 ...

Daniel C. Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea : Evolution and the Meanings of Life One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed.

An article by John Maynard Smith from The New York Review of Books, November 30, 1995 ...

Daniel Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea is presented as a historical account of evolutionary theory and how Darwinian theory explains 'mind' in nature. It's real agenda is to present Dennett's own theory, a kind of computer age, neo-Pythagoreanism.

Access Research Network Origins & Design Archives Book Reviews Origins & Design 17:1 Daniel Dennett's Dangerous Idea Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Daniel C. Dennett New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995; 586 pp. Phillip E. Johnson Daniel Dennett's fertile imagination is captivated by the very dangerous idea that the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution should ...