丹尼爾•丹內特（Daniel C.Dennett），哲學傢、認知科學傢，塔夫茨大學教授兼認知研究中心主任。專注於心智哲學和生物學哲學，尤其是意誌、自由意誌和泛進化論等主題。

著有《頭腦風暴》(Brain Storm，1978)，《活動餘地》(Elbow Room，1984)，《意嚮立場》(The Intentional Stance，1987)，《意識的解釋》(Consciousness Explained，1991)，《達爾文的危險觀念》(Darwin’s Dangerous Idea，1995，獲美國國傢圖書奬和普利策奬提名)，《心智種種》(Kinds of Minds，1996)等。

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments—drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy—that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves , Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.