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549Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers Can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday ExpertiseProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 79 (2). 2005.Back in 1950, while a physics major at Harvard, I wandered into C.I. Lewis’s epistemology course. There, Lewis was confidently expounding the need for an indubitable Given to ground knowledge, and he was explaining where that ground was to be found. I was so impressed that I immediately switched majors from ungrounded physics to grounded philosophy.
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84Alternative philosophical conceptualizations of psychopathologyIn Phenomenology and Beyond: The Self and its Language, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989.Home Courses Selected Papers Selected Books C.V. Dreydegger.org Phil. Faculty Dept. Philosophy UC Berkeley
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11Intentionality and the phenomenology of actionIn Ernest Lepore (ed.), John Searle and His Critics, Blackwell. 1991.
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3Merleau-Ponty and recent cognitive scienceIn Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press. pp. 132. 2005.
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123A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean–Luc Marion Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem–oriented chapters Organised topically, around concepts such…Read more
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141Saving the Sacred from the Axial RevolutionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (2): 195-203. 2011.Prominent defenders of the Enlightenment, like Jürgen Habermas, are beginning to recognize that the characterization of human beings in entirely rational and secular terms leaves out something important. Religion, they admit, plays an important role in human existence. But the return to a traditional monotheistic religion seems sociologically difficult after the death of God. We argue that Homeric polytheism retains a phenomenologically rich account of the sacred, and a similarly rich understand…Read more
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10Zwei Arten des Antiessentialismus und ihre KonsequenzenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (1): 23-50. 1997.
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7Sense and Nonsense (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1964."This translation is based upon the revised third edition, issued by Nagel in 1961. English translation c1964 by Northwestern University Press. First published 1964 ny Northwestern University Press."--Title page verso.
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6What is maturity? Habermas and Foucault on “What is enlightenment?”In Michel Foucault & David Couzens Hoy (eds.), Foucault: A Critical Reader, Blackwell. pp. 109--121. 1986.
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254Interpreting Heidegger on Das manInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 38 (4). 1995.In their debate over my interpretation of Heidegger's account of das Man in Being and Time, Frederick Olafson and Taylor Carman agree that Heidegger's various characterizations of das Man are inconsistent. Olafson champions an existentialist/ontic account of das Man as a distorted mode of being?with. Carman defends a Wittgensteinian/ontological account of das Man as Heidegger's name for the social norms that make possible everyday intelligibility. For Olafson, then, das Man is a privative mode o…Read more
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66What artificial experts can and cannot doAI 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
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8Heidegger's history of the being of equipmentIn Hubert L. Dreyfuss & Harrison Hall (eds.), Heidegger: A Critical Reader, Blackwell. pp. 173--185. 1992.
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156Anonymity versus commitment: The dangers of education on the internet (review)Ethics and Information Technology 1 (1): 369-378. 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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2Nihilismo en línea: el futuro de la tecnología de la información visto por Sören Kierkegaard en 1850Franciscanum: Revista de Las Ciencias Del Espíritu 44 (130): 287-300. 2002.
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271A History of First Step FallaciesMinds and Machines 22 (2): 87-99. 2012.In the 1960s, without realizing it, AI researchers were hard at work finding the features, rules, and representations needed for turning rationalist philosophy into a research program, and by so doing AI researchers condemned their enterprise to failure. About the same time, a logician, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, pointed out that AI optimism was based on what he called the “first step fallacy”. First step thinking has the idea of a successful last step built in. Limited early success, however, is not …Read more
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302In this paper I would like to explain, defend, and draw out the implications of this claim. Since the intentional arc is supposed to embody the interconnection of skillful action and perception, I will first lay out an account of skill
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