Hubert L. Dreyfus (1929–2017)
Author of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
About the Author
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on October 15, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1951, a master's degree in 1952, and a doctorate in 1964 from Harvard University. He taught at Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before show more joining the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He wrote or co-wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence, What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics written with Paul Rabinow, Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer, What Computers Still Can't Do, Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions, All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age written with Sean D. Kelly, and Skillful Coping: Essays on the Everyday Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action. He and Mark Wrathall edited numerous guides devoted to existentialism, phenomenology, and Heidegger's philosophy. He died of cancer on April 22, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (1986) 110 copies
Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (1997) 54 copies
Si può accusare Socrate di cognitivismo? — Author — 1 copy
La portée philosophique du connexionisme — Author — 1 copy
Het realisme herwonnen 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Dreyfus, Hubert L.
- Legal name
- Dreyfus, Hubert Lederer
- Birthdate
- 1929-10-15
- Date of death
- 2017-04-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
- Place of death
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Places of residence
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (BA | 1951 | MA | 1952 | PhD | 1964)
- Occupations
- philosopher
university professor - Relationships
- Dreyfus, Stuart E. (brother)
- Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brandeis University - Awards and honors
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
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Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger undergraduate introduction -- free podcasts! in Philosophy and Theory (August 2008)
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