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Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske (/ ˈ d r ɛ t s k i /; December 9, 1932 – July 24, 2013) was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Jul 26, 2013 · A tribute to the late philosopher Fred Dretske, who taught at Stanford from 1990 to 1998 and made significant contributions to the fields of philosophy of mind and epistemology. Learn about his life, work, and legacy at Stanford and beyond.
Information and Mind explores a range of topics that Fred Dretske addressed in his philosophical career. These span from the earliest problems Dretske analyzed—the nature of seeing an object—to epistemological issues that he began working on in mid-career, to issues he focused on in later years, including information, mental representation ...
He is emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford University and professor of philosophy at Duke University. Since the early 1970s Dretske's work has been at the center of a number of key disputes in epistemology and the philosophies of perception, mind, and consciousness.
FRED DRETSKE, 1932-2013. Fred Dretske died this summer. He was a philosopher of singular quality, inventive, lucid, and fundamental. His work in the theory of knowledge and. the philosophy of mind, and his analysis of laws of nature, won him wide recognition and respect. He was a person of great charm, greatly loved by his friends.
Feb 4, 2010 · Fred Dretske’s 1981 Knowledge and the Flow of Information offered a much expanded treatment of a type of causal theory. Rather than basing semantic content on a causal connection per se , Dretske began with a type of informational connection derived from the mathematical theory of information.
Dretske's Knowledge and the Flow of Information is a modern classic in externalist epistemology, and his seminal work on closure dates back to the 1970s (see, for example, Dretske, 1970-1972).
