• PhilPapers
  • PhilPeople
  • PhilArchive
  • PhilEvents
  • PhilJobs
  • Sign in
PhilPeople
 
  • Sign in
  • News Feed
  • Find Philosophers
  • Departments
  • Radar
  • Help
 
profile-cover
Drag to reposition
profile picture

Fred Dretske
(1932 - 2013)

Last affiliation: Duke University
  •  Home
  •  Publications
    193
    • Most Recent
    • Most Downloaded
    • Topics
  •  Events
    2
  •  News and Updates
    129

 More details
  • Duke University
    Department of Philosophy
    Researcher
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
  • All publications (193)
  •  176
    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
  •  410
    Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology (edited book)
    with Sven Bernecker
    Oxford University Press. 2000.
    In this anthology, distinguished editors Sven Bernecker and Fred Dretske offer the most comprehensive review available of contemporary epistemology. They bring together the most important and influential writings in the field, including selections that cover frequently neglected topics such as dominant responses to skepticism, introspection, memory, and testimony. Knowledge is divided into fifteen subject areas and includes forty-one readings by eminent contributors. An accessible introduction t…Read more
    In this anthology, distinguished editors Sven Bernecker and Fred Dretske offer the most comprehensive review available of contemporary epistemology. They bring together the most important and influential writings in the field, including selections that cover frequently neglected topics such as dominant responses to skepticism, introspection, memory, and testimony. Knowledge is divided into fifteen subject areas and includes forty-one readings by eminent contributors. An accessible introduction to each subject area outlines the problems discussed in the essays that follow so that students can focus on analyzing them.
    Epistemology, General WorksEpistemology of Testimony
  •  102
    Reply to hawthorne
    In Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 43--46. 2013.
    Ontology
  •  146
    Differences that make no difference
    Philosophical Topics 22 (1/2): 41-57. 1994.
    Dennett's Functionalism
  • Mind and brain
    In Richard Warner & Tadeusz Szubka (eds.), The Mind-Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate, Blackwell. 1994.
  •  124
    Reasons and falsification
    Philosophical Quarterly 15 (58): 20-34. 1965.
    Epistemology of Specific Domains, Misc
  •  256
    Counting to Infinity
    Analysis 25 (Suppl-3): 99. 1965.
    Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe Infinite
  •  91
    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
  •  244
    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
  •  147
    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.
  •  170
    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. 2011.
  •  151
    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.
  •  379
    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
  •  137
    What isn't wrong with folk psychology
    Metaphilosophy 23 (1-2): 1-13. 1992.
    Externalism and Psychological ExplanationThe Nature of Folk Psychology
  •  231
    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
  •  148
    A cognitive cul-de-sac
    Mind 91 (361): 109-111. 1982.
    Philosophy of MindPhilosophy of Cognitive Science, Miscellaneous
  •  96
    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
  • The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics
    Bowling Green: Philosophy Doc Ctr. 1999.
    Metaphysics, Misc
  •  87
    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
  •  25
    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
  •  213
    Lost knowledge
    with Palle Yourgrau
    Journal of Philosophy 80 (6): 356-367. 1983.
    Defeat
  •  111
    Reviews (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 79-81. 1985.
  •  271
    Can intelligence be artificial?
    Philosophical Studies 71 (2): 201-16. 1993.
    Artificial Minds, Misc
  •  53
    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
  •  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
  • Prev.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • Next
PhilPeople logo

On this site

  • Find a philosopher
  • Find a department
  • The Radar
  • Index of professional philosophers
  • Index of departments
  • Help
  • Acknowledgments
  • Careers
  • Contact us
  • Terms and conditions

Brought to you by

  • The PhilPapers Foundation
  • The American Philosophical Association
  • Centre for Digital Philosophy, Western University
PhilPeople is currently in Beta Sponsored by the PhilPapers Foundation and the American Philosophical Association
Feedback