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    The socratic and platonic basis of cognitivism
    AI and Society 2 (2): 99-112. 1988.
    Artificial Intelligence, and the cognitivist view of mind on which it is based, represent the last stage of the rationalist tradition in philosophy. This tradition begins when Socrates assumes that intelligence is based on principles and when Plato adds the requirement that these principles must be strict rules, not based on taken-for-granted background understanding. This philosophical position, refined by Hobbes, Descartes and Leibniz, is finally converted into a research program by Herbert Si…Read more
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    Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind (review)
    Philosophical Review 100 (3): 524-529. 1991.
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    Phenomenology and mechanism
    Noûs 5 (1): 81-96. 1971.
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    Our contemporary nihilism -- Homer's polytheism -- From Aeschylus to Augustine : monotheism on the rise -- From Dante to Kant : the attractions and dangers of autonomy -- Fanaticism, polytheism, and Melville's "evil art" -- David Foster Wallace's nihilism -- Conclusion : lives worth living in a secular age.
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    What artificial experts can and cannot do
    with Stuart E. Dreyfus
    AI and Society 6 (1): 18-26. 1992.
    One's model of skill determines what one expects from neural network modelling and how one proposes to go about enhancing expertise. We view skill acquisition as a progression from acting on the basis of a rough theory of a domain in terms of facts and rules to being able to respond appropriately to the current situation on the basis of neuron connections changed by the results of responses to the relevant aspects of many past situations. Viewing skill acquisition in this ways suggests how one c…Read more
  •  62
    Skills, historical disclosing, and the end of history: A response to our critics
    with Charles Spinosa and Fernando Flores
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 38 (1-2). 1995.
    We appreciate the thoughtful responses we have received on ?Disclosing New Worlds?. We will respond to the concerns raised by grouping them under three general themes. First, a number of questions arise from lack of clarity about how the matters we undertook to discuss ? especially solidarity ? appear when one starts by thinking about the primacy of skills and practices. Under this heading we consider (a) whether we need more case studies to make our points, and (b) whether national and other so…Read more
  •  58
    From micro-worlds to knowledge representation: AI at an impasse
    In J. Haugel (ed.), Mind Design, Mit Press. pp. 161--204. 1981.
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    A Companion to Heidegger (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.
    The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Considers the most important elements of Heidegger’s intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism Provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger’s work One of the few books on Heidegger to cover his later work as well as Being and Time Includes key critical responses to Hei…Read more
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    On the Internet
    Routledge. 2001.
    _Internet_ is een van de eerste boeken waarin het filosofische inzicht -van Plato tot Kierkegaard - betrokken wordt op het debat over de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden van het internet. Dreyfus laat zien dat de onstoffelijke, 'vrij zwevende' websurfer zijn oorsprong vindt in Descartes' scheiding van geest en lichaam, en hoe Kierkegaards inzichten in de opkomst van het moderne leespubliek vooruitlopen op de nieuwsgierige, maar elk risico vermijdende internet-junkie. Uitgaande van recente onderz…Read more
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    Existential phenomenologists hold that the two most basic forms of intelligent behavior, learning, and skillful action, can be described and explained without recourse to mind or brain representations. This claim is expressed in two central notions in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: the intentional arc and the tendency to achieve a maximal grip. The intentional arc names the tight connection between body and world, such that, as the active body acquires skills, those skills are “sto…Read more
  •  45
    The Meaning of Heidegger: A Critical Study of an Existentialist Phenomenology (review)
    Philosophical Review 70 (3): 416-419. 1961.
    The Meaning of Heidegger: A Critical Study of an Existentialist Phenomenology. Hubert L. Dreyfus. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 70, No. 3, 416-419. Jul., 1961. THE MEANlAG OF HEIDEGGER: A CRITICAL STUDY OF AN EXISTENTIALIST PHNOMENOLOGY
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    The Primacy of Phenomenology over Logical Analysis
    Philosophical Topics 27 (2): 3-24. 1999.
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    Putting Computers in Their Place
    with Stuart Dreyfus
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 53. 1986.
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    Further Reflections on Heidegger, Technology, and the Everyday
    with Charles Spinosa
    Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 23 (5): 339-349. 2003.
    This article traces the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking about technology over the course of what is considered to be his early, middle, and late periods. Over the course of the years, Heidegger’s concerns moved from somewhat conventional concerns over the consumerism technology entails, and the damage it causes to the environment, to the more complex position that technicity distorts human nature with an accompanying loss of meaning. The real danger, he said, is not the destruction of nature …Read more
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    Retrieving Realism
    with Charles Taylor
    Harvard University Press. 2015.
    For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.
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    Heidegger's Ontology of Art
    In Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: World, Being, and Style The Work of Art as Manifesting a World The Work of Art as Articulating a Culture's Understanding of Being Heidegger: Artworks as Reconfiguring a Culture's Understanding of Being Conclusion: Can an Artwork Work for Us Now?
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    On the proper treatment of Smolensky
    with Stuart E. Dreyfus
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (1): 31-32. 1988.
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    Two Kinds of Antiessentialism and Their Consequences
    with Charles Spinosa
    Critical Inquiry 22 (4): 735-763. 1996.
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    Introduction
    Philosophical Topics 27 (2): 5-6. 1999.
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    This book is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault's work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method - "interpretative analytics" - capable of explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and th…Read more
  •  23
    Anonymity versus commitment: The dangers of education on the internet
    Ethics and Information Technology 1 (1): 15-20. 1999.
    I shall translate Kierkegaard's account of the dangers and opportunities of what he called the Press into a critique of the Internet so as to raise the question: what contribution -- for good or ill -- can the World Wide Web, with its ability to deliver vast amounts of information to users all over the world, make to educators trying to pass on knowledge and to develop skills and wisdom in their students? I will then use Kierkegaard's three-stage answer to the problem of lack of involvement pose…Read more
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    Searle's Freudian slip
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4): 603-604. 1990.