The Moral First Aid Manual

DANIEL C. DENNETT was born in Boston in 1942 and received his B.A. from Harvard and his D. Phil. from Oxford. After six years at the University of California at Irvine, he moved to Tufts University in 1971, where he is now distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies. In addition to his books on the philosophy of mind, Content and Consciousness (1969), Brainstorms (1978), and The Intentional Stance (1987), he has written on free will (Elbow Room, 1984) and co-edited, with Douglas Hofstadter, The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981).