Profesor de filozofie si director al Centrului de Studii Cognitive la Tufts University, Massachusetts. S-a nascut la Boston in 1942, si-a luat diploma in filozofie la Harvard in 1963, iar pana in 1965 a lucrat la teza de doctorat sub indrumarea lui Gilbert Ryle, profesor la Oxford. A tinut cursuri la universitatile Harvard, Pittsburgh, Michigan, Oxford, Adelaide si la Ecole Normale Superieure din Paris. Este cofondator al Tufts Curricular Software Studio si organizator al unor expozitii pe tema computerelor pentru Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Science si Computer Museum din Boston. Din 1987 este membru al American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A scris numeroase carti si articole, acestea din urma publicate in periodice prestigioase, din cele mai diverse domenii, de la Artificial Intelligence si Behavioral and Brain Sciences pana la Poetics Today si Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Carti:
Content and Consciousness, 1969
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, 1978
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, 1981, coautor D. R. Hofstadter
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, 1984
The Intentional Stance, 1987
Consciousness Explained, 1991
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, 1995
Kinds of Minds, 1996
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds, 1998
Freedom Evolves, 2003
