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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)
  •  2
    Seeing and Knowing
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (1): 121-124. 1970.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  108
    The stance stance
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (3): 511-512. 1988.
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceAspects of Consciousness
  •  172
    Minds, machines, and money: What really explains behavior
    In J. A. M. Bransen & S. E. Cuypers (eds.), Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 157--173. 1998.
    Explanatory Role of Content
  •  403
    [No title] (edited book)
    with Sven Bernecker
    Oxford University Press. 2000.
    Epistemology, General WorksEpistemology of Testimony
  •  100
    Reply to hawthorne
    In Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 43--46. 2013.
    Ontology
  •  140
    Differences that make no difference
    Philosophical Topics 22 (1/2): 41-57. 1994.
    Dennett's Functionalism
  •  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
  • Mind and brain
    In Richard Warner & Tadeusz Szubka (eds.), The Mind-Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate, Blackwell. 1994.
  •  112
    Reasons and falsification
    Philosophical Quarterly 15 (58): 20-34. 1965.
    Epistemology of Specific Domains, Misc
  •  252
    Counting to Infinity
    Analysis 25 (Suppl-3): 99. 1965.
    Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe Infinite
  •  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
  •  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
  •  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
  •  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.
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    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
  •  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
  • 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
  •  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
  •  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
  •  107
    Reviews (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 79-81. 1985.
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