Fred Dretske (1932–) is a philosopher, one of the most influential epistemologists and philosophers of mind of his time. 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.

his books

• 1969, Seeing and Knowing, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0710062133
• 1981, Knowledge and the Flow of Information, Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262040638
• 1988, Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes, Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262040948
• 1995, Naturalizing the Mind, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262041499
• 2000, Perception, Knowledge and Belief, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521777429

See also

• List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates

External links

• Dretske's Stanford page
• An Interview with Fred Dretske (PDF) where colleagues ask about his work. Form The Dualist, Stanford's Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

1932 births | Living people

Fred Dretske | Fred Dretske