By a unanimous decision of the Dennett Prize Committee, the inaugural winner of the Dennett Prize is Andy Clark. Congratulations!
The Dennett Prize is awarded for significant advances in the fields of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and artificial intelligence, the modern appearance and scopes of which were shaped largely due to the revolutionary ideas of Daniel Dennett. This year, 14 applications were submitted for the Dennett Prize competition, all of which were carefully considered by the Committee.
Andy Clark is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex, the author of groundbreaking works on embodied and extended cognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, and computational neuroscience, including Being There: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (MIT Press, 1997), Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (OUP, 2008), Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (OUP, 2016), and The Experience Machine: How our Minds Predict and Shape Reality (Penguin Random House, 2023).
The award will take place on the last day of the 2nd Annual ICCS Conference “AI and Sentience,” when Andy Clark will give the Daniel Dennett Lecture. The conference will be held on July 3–5, 2025, in Heraklion, Crete. For more information about the Conference, and how to attend, see the Announcement.
For more information about the Dennett Prize, see the Project page. The next competition for the Dennett Prize will be announced in autumn 2025.