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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)
  •  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
  •  73
    The Fragility of Reason
    Dialogue 31 (2): 311. 1992.
  • Knowledge and the Flow of Information
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 175 (1): 69-70. 1981.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  161
    Particulars and the relational theory of time
    Philosophical Review 70 (4): 447-469. 1961.
    Physics of TimeOntologyObjects and Properties
  •  2
    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
  •  227
    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
  •  146
    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
  •  1
    Explaining Behaviour
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1): 157-165. 1993.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  133
    What isn't wrong with folk psychology
    Metaphilosophy 23 (1-2): 1-13. 1992.
    Externalism and Psychological ExplanationThe Nature of Folk Psychology
  •  23
    Richard Rorty., Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 14 (1): 96-98. 1982.
  •  5
    Dretske and His Critics
    Blackwell. 1991.
    Information-Based Accounts of Mental Content
  • The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics
    Bowling Green: Philosophy Doc Ctr. 1999.
    Metaphysics, Misc
  •  86
    Mental causation
    Think 3 (7): 7-16. 2004.
    When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.
    Mental Causation, MiscExplanatory Role of Content
  •  107
    Reviews (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 79-81. 1985.
  •  269
    Can intelligence be artificial?
    Philosophical Studies 71 (2): 201-16. 1993.
    Artificial Minds, Misc
  •  52
    The Likelihood of Knowledge
    Review of Metaphysics 42 (3): 632-632. 1989.
    This is a competent review and critique of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. With the exception of memory, truth and the a priori, most of the standard subjects are discussed: certainty, incorrigibility, perception, the given, rationality, and scepticism. There are a few new technical wrinkles, but no real surprises. The book's strength lies, instead, in its solid, sensible treatment of most topics.
    Probabilistic Frameworks
  •  203
    Lost knowledge
    with Palle Yourgrau
    Journal of Philosophy 80 (6): 356-367. 1983.
    Defeat
  •  4
    Putting information to work
    In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition, University of British Columbia Press. 1990.
    Information-Based Accounts of Mental Content
  •  100
    Constraints and meaning
    Linguistics and Philosophy 8 (1): 9-12. 1985.
    Meaning, Misc
  •  4
    The epistemology of pain
    In Murat Aydede (ed.), Pain: New Essays on its Nature and the Methodology of its Study, Mit Press. pp. 3-20. 2005.
    PainEpistemology of Specific Domains, Misc
  •  3
    Information-theoretic Semantics
    In Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. 2007.
    Semantic Theories
  •  156
    Observational terms
    Philosophical Review 73 (1): 25-42. 1964.
    The Objects of PerceptionObservation in Science
  •  59
    Abstract of Comments: Seeing through Pictures
    Noûs 18 (1): 73-74. 1984.
    Depiction
  • Sensation and perception (1981)
    In Essays on Nonconceptual Content, Bradford Book/mit Press. 2003.
    Conceptual and Nonconceptual ContentSensation and Perception
  •  141
    How beliefs explain: Reply to Baker
    Philosophical Studies 63 113-117. 1991.
    Explanatory Role of Content
  •  93
    Causal Theories of Knowledge1
    with Berent Enç
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9 (1): 517-528. 1984.
  •  2
    Minds, Machines and Meaning in Philosophy and Technology II. Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice
    Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 90 97-109. 1986.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsPhilosophy of Computing and Information
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