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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)
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    Mental events as structuring causes of behavior
    In John Heil & Alfred Mele (eds.), Mental Causation, Clarendon Press. pp. 121--135. 1993.
    Reasons and CausesExplanatory Role of Content
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    Reply to hawthorne
    In Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 43--46. 2013.
    Ontology
  •  141
    Differences that make no difference
    Philosophical Topics 22 (1/2): 41-57. 1994.
    Dennett's Functionalism
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    The stance stance
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (3): 511-512. 1988.
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceAspects of Consciousness
  •  175
    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
  •  116
    Reasons and falsification
    Philosophical Quarterly 15 (58): 20-34. 1965.
    Epistemology of Specific Domains, Misc
  •  254
    Counting to Infinity
    Analysis 25 (Suppl-3): 99. 1965.
    Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe Infinite
  •  89
    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.
  •  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.
  • Knowledge and the Flow of Information
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 175 (1): 69-70. 1981.
    Continental Philosophy
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    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
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