Daniel Dennett.

Daniel Clement Dennett has had a major influence on our understanding of human intentionality and agency, consciousness (and thereby phenomenology and the architecture and neuroscience of consciousness), developmental psychology, cognitive ethology, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary theory. Dennett has played a central role in one of the most significant theoretical revolutions of the past fifty years, the cognitivist revolution. This revolution demolished simple empiricism and put in its stead a view of human action as requiring interpretation in terms of a rich reservoir of cognitive resources and, many argue, evolutionary history. To assess Dennett's influence, the editors have assembled a team of experts who either specialize in one of the areas in which Dennett has had such an influence or who, although trained in philosophy, have attained expertise in a discipline beyond philosophy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)