Here’s ‘a lovely tribute to Dan Dennett by Richard Dawkins:
Since the deaths of Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, I have been rather short of intellectual heroes to consult on difficult questions. Thank goodness we still have Dan Dennett.
Yes indeed. All heroes should be teachers. Looking back on it, Dan’s Philosophy of Mind course that I took in 2005 was one of the most important passages of my life. In the words of Walt Whitman, such experiences raise us up and then “level that lift, to pass and continue beyond.”