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Fred Dretske
(1932 - 2013)

Last affiliation: Duke University
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  • Duke University
    Department of Philosophy
    Researcher
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
  • All publications (194)
  •  86
    The Metaphysics of Information
    In Alois Pichler & Herbert Hrachovec (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2007, De Gruyter. pp. 273-284. 2008.
    Conceptions of Information
  • Knowledge and the Flow of Information
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 175 (1): 69-70. 1981.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  234
    Precis of "Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes"
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4): 783-786. 1990.
    Causal Theory of ActionInformation-Based Accounts of Mental ContentThe Structure of ActionReasons an…Read more
    Causal Theory of ActionInformation-Based Accounts of Mental ContentThe Structure of ActionReasons and CausesExplanatory Role of ContentMental Causation, Misc
  •  146
    Challenging Closure: Is It A Way To Answer The Skeptic?
    The Harvard Review of Philosophy 19 61-68. 2013.
    Replies to Skepticism, MiscBrains in Vats
  •  74
    The Fragility of Reason
    Dialogue 31 (2): 311. 1992.
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    Particulars and the relational theory of time
    Philosophical Review 70 (4): 447-469. 1961.
    Physics of TimeOntologyObjects and Properties
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    About self-knowledge
    In Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 425. 2013.
  •  148
    Simple seeing
    In Donald F. Gustafson & Bangs L. Tapscott (eds.), Body, Mind, and Method: Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 1--15. 1979.
  •  371
    Introspection
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 263-278. 19934.
    Fred Dretske; XI*—Introspection, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 263–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/9.
    Introspection and IntrospectionismExternalism and Self-Knowledge
  •  133
    What isn't wrong with folk psychology
    Metaphilosophy 23 (1-2): 1-13. 1992.
    Externalism and Psychological ExplanationThe Nature of Folk Psychology
  •  228
    Norms, history, and the mental
    In D. Walsh (ed.), Evolution, Naturalism and Mind, Cambridge University Press. pp. 87-104. 2001.
    Many people think the mind evolved. Some of them think it had to evolve. They think the mind not only has a history, but a history essential to its very existence.
    Teleological Accounts of Mental Content
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    A cognitive cul-de-sac
    Mind 91 (361): 109-111. 1982.
    Philosophy of MindPhilosophy of Cognitive Science, Miscellaneous
  •  93
    Reply to Slater and Garcia-carpintero
    Mind and Language 9 (2): 203-8. 1994.
    Explanatory Role of Content
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    Explaining Behaviour
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1): 157-165. 1993.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
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