A personal remembrance of Dan Dennett (1942-2024)

Back in the Fall of 2022, Dan Dennett and George Smith had a joint retirement party on the Tufts campus.* I was on research leave at Duke struggling with long covid. They both had let me know, ever so discretely, that they did not expect me to come up if travel was still too much for me, but that they knew the other would be very moved if I could. Dan w…