Fred Dretske

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Fred Dretske (1932–) is a philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994. Dretske taught for a number of years at the University of Wisconsin before moving to Stanford University. After retiring from Stanford he moved to Duke University where he is now research professor of Philosophy.

Dretske holds externalist views about the mind, and thus he tries in various writings to show that by means of mere introspection one actually learns about his own mind less than might be expected.

[edit] Selected publications

• 1969, Seeing and Knowing, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-7100-6213-3
• 1981, Knowledge and the Flow of Information, Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04063-8
• 1988, Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes, Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04094-8
• 1995, Naturalizing the Mind, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04149-9
• 2000, Perception, Knowledge and Belief, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77742-9

[edit] See also

• Relevant alternatives theory
• List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates

[edit] External links

• Dretske's page at Duke
• An Interview with Fred Dretske where colleagues ask about his work. From The Dualist, Stanford's Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy