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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 (193)
  •  2
    Seeing and Knowing
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (1): 121-124. 1970.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  2
    Essays on Nonconceptual Content
    Bradford Book/MIT Press. 2003.
    Conceptual and Nonconceptual ContentSensation and Perception
  •  1050
    Conclusive reasons
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49 (1): 1-22. 1971.
    This Article does not have an abstract
    Epistemological States and PropertiesReasons and OughtsSubjective and Objective ReasonsReasons and R…Read more
    Epistemological States and PropertiesReasons and OughtsSubjective and Objective ReasonsReasons and RationalityClosure of Knowledge
  •  1
    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
  •  420
    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 TestimonyVarieties of Knowledge, MiscSkepticism, MiscDefi…Read more
    Epistemology, General WorksEpistemology of TestimonyVarieties of Knowledge, MiscSkepticism, MiscDefining Knowledge, Misc
  •  107
    Reply to hawthorne
    In Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 43--46. 2013.
    Ontology
  •  152
    Differences that make no difference
    Philosophical Topics 22 (1/2): 41-57. 1994.
    Dennett's Functionalism
  •  113
    The stance stance
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (3): 511-512. 1988.
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceAspects of Consciousness
  •  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
  •  126
    Reasons and falsification
    Philosophical Quarterly 15 (58): 20-34. 1965.
    Epistemology of Specific Domains, Misc
  •  265
    Counting to Infinity
    Analysis 25 (Suppl-3): 99. 1965.
    Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe Infinite
  •  96
    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.
  •  246
    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
  •  150
    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
  •  77
    The Fragility of Reason
    Dialogue 31 (2): 311. 1992.
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    Knowledge and the Flow of Information
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 175 (1): 69-70. 1981.
    Continental Philosophy
  •  171
    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.
  •  154
    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.
  •  383
    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
  •  150
    A cognitive cul-de-sac
    Mind 91 (361): 109-111. 1982.
    Philosophy of MindPhilosophy of Cognitive Science, Miscellaneous
  •  98
    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
  •  140
    What isn't wrong with folk psychology
    Metaphilosophy 23 (1-2): 1-13. 1992.
    Externalism and Psychological ExplanationThe Nature of Folk Psychology
  •  236
    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
  •  26
    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
  •  89
    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
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