Fred Dretske
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American professor of Philosophy at Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Life and career Born to Frederick and Hattie Dretske, Dretske first planned to be an engineer, attending Purdue University. He changed his mind after taking the university's only philosophy course, deciding philosophy was the only thing he wanted to do in his life.
Fred Dretske's Published Works
Published Works
- Knowledge and the Flow of Information (1985) (2177)
- Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes (1990) (892)
- Naturalizing the Mind (1995) (882)
- Laws of Nature (1977) (558)
- Seeing and Knowing. (1969) (340)
- The pragmatic dimension of knowledge (1981) (216)
- Précis of Knowledge and the Flow of Information (1983) (204)
- The Mind's Awareness of Itself (1999) (119)
- Experience as Representation (2003) (115)
- Reasons and Causes (1989) (105)
- Entitlement: Epistemic Rights Without Epistemic Duties? (2000) (99)
- Knowledge & the flow of information (1981) (97)
- The explanatory role of information (1994) (91)
- Phenomenal Externalism or If Meanings Ain't in the Head, Where Are Qualia? (1996) (91)
- Perception, Knowledge and Belief: Selected Essays (2000) (73)
- If You Can't Make One, You Don't Know How It Works (1994) (71)
- Knowledge : readings in contemporary epistemology (2000) (68)
- REFERRING TO EVENTS (1977) (64)
- The Intentionality of Cognitive States (1980) (60)
- Perception, Knowledge, And Belief (2000) (58)
- Where Is the Mind?@@@Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind (1996) (55)
- Machines and the Mental (1985) (54)
- Seeing, believing, and knowing (1990) (49)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Norms, History, and the Constitution of the Mental (2000) (43)
- Perception and Other Minds (1973) (43)
- PERCEPTION WITHOUT AWARENESS (2004) (43)
- WHAT CHANGE BLINDNESS TEACHES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS (2007) (40)
- The epistemology of belief (1983) (37)
- Reply to Reviewers (1990) (34)
- The informational character of representations (1982) (30)
- Machines, Plants and Animals: the Origins of Agency (1999) (30)
- Is Knowledge Closed under Known Entailment (2014) (30)
- PSYCHOLOGICAL VS. BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR (2004) (28)
- What Good is Consciousness? (1997) (28)
- Information and Closure (2006) (23)
- Externalism and Modest Contextualism (2004) (20)
- II.—CAN EVENTS MOVE? (1967) (19)
- Knowing What You Think vs. Knowing that You Think It (2004) (18)
- Minds, Machines, and Money: What Really Explains Behavior (1998) (16)
- The Role of the Percept in Visual Cognition (1978) (15)
- Dretske's awful answer (1995) (14)
- Norms, History and the Mental (2001) (13)
- Richard Rorty., Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1982) (12)
- Causal Theories of Knowledge1 (1984) (12)
- Awareness and Authority: Skeptical Doubts about Self-Knowledge (2012) (12)
- Reply to Lopes (2000) (11)
- How beliefs explain: reply to baker (1991) (11)
- Perception from an Epistemological Point of View (1971) (11)
- Can intelligence be artificial? (1993) (11)
- Differences that Make No Difference (1994) (10)
- What we see : the texture of conscious experience (2010) (10)
- Reasons and consequences (1968) (10)
- WHAT ISN'T WRONG WITH FOLK PSYCHOLOGY* (1992) (10)
- Counting to infinity (1965) (10)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Putting Information to Work (2000) (9)
- A Cognitive Cul-de-Sac (1982) (9)
- Review Essay: Engineering the Mind@@@Naturalizing the Mind. (1997) (9)
- Reply to Slater and García‐Carpintero (1994) (8)
- Two Conceptions of Knowledge: Rational vs. Reliable Belief (1991) (8)
- Causal Irregularity (1972) (8)
- Triggering and Structuring Causes (2010) (8)
- What Must Actions Be for Reasons to Explain Them (2009) (8)
- The stance stance (1988) (7)
- Reasons, Knowledge, and Probability (1971) (7)
- Constraints and meaning (1985) (6)
- What We See (2010) (6)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Simple Seeing (2000) (6)
- The Metaphysics Of Freedom (1992) (6)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Two Conceptions of Knowledge: Rational vs. Reliable Belief (1991) (6)
- How Reasons Explain Behaviour: Reply to Melnyk and Noordhof (1996) (6)
- Skeptical Doubts About Self-Knowledge (2010) (6)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: The Pragmatic Dimension of Knowledge (2000) (5)
- Change Blindness (2004) (5)
- Minds, Machines and Meaning (1986) (5)
- Information‐Theoretic Semantics (2009) (5)
- Causality and Sufficiency: Reply to Beauchamp (1973) (4)
- DOUBTS ABOUT COGITO (2012) (4)
- The Need to Know (2019) (4)
- Reply to Niiniluoto (1978) (3)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: If You Can't Make One, You Don't Know How It Works (2000) (3)
- Abstract of Comments: Seeing through Pictures (1984) (3)
- Conscious acts and their objects (1991) (3)
- Bogdan on Information (1988) (3)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Conscious Experience (2000) (3)
- So Do We Know or Don't We? (1997) (3)
- The nature of thought (1993) (3)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: The Mind's Awareness of Itself (2000) (3)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Conclusive Reasons (2000) (2)
- Supervenience and the causal explanation of behavior (2015) (2)
- Scepticism: A Critical Appraisal (1981) (2)
- John Searle: The Intentionality of Perception (2003) (2)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Minds, Machines, and Money: What Really Explains Behavior (2000) (2)
- Explaining Behaviour@@@Explaining Behaviour: Reasons in a World of Causes. (1990) (1)
- The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (1989) (1)
- Particular Reidentification (1964) (1)
- Apistemology and Cognition by Alvin Goldman (1988) (1)
- The Fragility of Reason (1992) (1)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Thought and Intentionality (2000) (1)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Epistemic Operators (2000) (1)
- Chisholm on Perceptual Knowledge (1979) (1)
- Perception versus Conception (2015) (1)
- Moving Backward in Time (1962) (1)
- Reasons and Falsification (1965) (1)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: The Epistemology of Belief (2000) (1)
- The Metaphysics of Information (2013) (1)
- Chris Hill’s consciousness (2012) (1)
- Comments on Shapere and Hesse (1976) (0)
- Perception: A Representative Theory (1978) (0)
- Observation and Objectivity. Harold I. Brown (1989) (0)
- Consciousness and the Self: I think I think, therefore I am – I think (2011) (0)
- PHS volume 49 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
- BAIER, KURT, The Rational and the Moral Order: The Social Roots of Reason and Morality, reviewed by Sarah Stroud.. 577 (1997) (0)
- Reply to Commentators: [Horwich, Biro, Kim, Lara] (1996) (0)
- Reason and Scepticism (1972) (0)
- Justified true belief (2013) (0)
- Knowing It Hurts (2010) (0)
- Challenging Closure: Is It A Way To Answer The Skeptic? (2013) (0)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: What Good Is Consciousness? (2000) (0)
- Max Kistler Source and channel in the informational theory of mental content (2006) (0)
- Readings On Laws Of Nature (2004) (0)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: Preface (2000) (0)
- Perception, Learning and the Self (1987) (0)
- Philosophy of Science Association (2008) (0)
- Stalking intentionality (1986) (0)
- Perception and Experience (2000) (0)
- Mental causation (2004) (0)
- Thought and Intentionality (2000) (0)
- Epistemology: 5 Questions (2008) (0)
- The Trouble of Misrepresentation in Dretske’s Information-Theoretic Account (2018) (0)
- First Person Warrant Comments On Siewert's The Significance Of Consciousness (2001) (0)
- Concepts of science: a philosophical analysis: by Peter Achinstein. 266 pages. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1968. Price $8.95. (1971) (0)
- Perception, Knowledge, and Belief: The Nature of Thought (2000) (0)
- Particulars and the Relational Theory of Time (1961) (0)
- REASONS AND CAUSES1 (2016) (0)
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