Published debate record
7 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 83/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Alvin Plantinga vs Daniel Dennett: Science, Religion, and Evolution · 2018
Plantinga establishes evolutionary compatibility with divine guidance, while Dennett separates possibility from evidence and offers a narrowly stronger naturalistic account of cognitive reliability.
Alvin Plantinga: 83 · Daniel Dennett: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Dinesh D'Souza: Is God a Human Invention? · 2007
Dennett advances naturalistic explanations of religion, cosmos, mind, and morality, while D'Souza defends divine reality through conceptual, cosmological, experiential, and moral arguments.
Daniel Dennett: 80 · Dinesh D'Souza: 75. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Daniel Dennett: Does Free Will Exist? · 2018
Harris challenges ultimate authorship under causation, while Dennett defends graded, reasons-responsive control and pragmatic responsibility without metaphysical self-creation.
Sam Harris: 82 · Daniel Dennett: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Philip Clayton: Naturalism and Ultimate Reality · 2012
Dennett defends naturalistic explanations and epistemic accountability, while Clayton argues for subjective realism, religious integration, and a deeper ultimate reality.
Daniel Dennett: 85 · Philip Clayton: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Gregg Caruso: Free Will and Moral Responsibility · 2021
Caruso’s carefully delimited desert skepticism and forward-looking alternatives outperform Dennett’s practical compatibilism, whose institutional strengths leave ultimate sourcehood and desert’s independent role unresolved.
Daniel Dennett: 79 · Gregg Caruso: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Keith Ward vs Daniel Dennett: Are We More Than Matter? · 2019
Ward defends irreducible consciousness, value, identity, and agency; Dennett answers through evolved computation, higher-level explanation, emergent purpose, and compatibilist control.
Keith Ward: 76 · Daniel Dennett: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Daniel Dennett vs Robert Sapolsky — Do We Have Free Will? · 2023
Sapolsky narrowly prevailed by pressing unchosen causal origins, while Dennett built a strong compatibilist account of evolved, reasons-responsive self-control and humane responsibility.
Daniel Dennett: 82 · Robert Sapolsky: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.