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Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.

A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.

Called a "once-in-a-generation scholar, teacher, and colleague," Dennett was one of the most read and debated philosophers of his time.

Called a "once-in-a-generation scholar, teacher, and colleague," Dennett was one of the most read and debated philosophers of his time.

A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.

Responsive, sensitive parenting should be a birthright. Serve-and-return interactions will shape brain development for life.

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

Alan Dershowitz, furious at being accused by an Epstein victim, pointed out all his fellow Crimsons who were friends with the sex-trafficker.

“The irrational cannot be ignored.” So said the American poet Wallace Stevens. Humanists have successfully used the charge of “irrationality” in fighting religious beliefs since the eighteenth century, but Stevens, himself a lifelong nonbeliever, preferred to describe believers as “out of touch ...

Theatre marker Victor Jacono tells all in our Q&A