Hubert Dreyfus
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Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (
Dreyfus was featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World (2010),[5] and was among the philosophers interviewed by Bryan Magee for the BBC Television series The Great Philosophers (1987).[6]
The
Life and career
Dreyfus was born on 15 October 1929, in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Stanley S. and Irene (Lederer) Dreyfus.[7][8]
He attended
Between 1956 and 1957, Dreyfus undertook research at the
From 1960, first as an instructor, then as an assistant and then associate professor, Dreyfus taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[8] In 1964, with his dissertation Husserl's Phenomenology of Perception, he obtained his PhD from Harvard.[10][15] (Due to his knowledge of Husserl, Dagfinn Føllesdal sat on the thesis committee but he has asserted that Dreyfus "was not really my student.")[16] That same year, his co-translation (with his first wife) of Sense and Non-Sense by Maurice Merleau-Ponty was published.[7]
Also in 1964, and whilst still at
- Berkeley
In 1968, although he had been granted
Dreyfus was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.[19] He was also awarded an honorary doctorate for "his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence" and his interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy by Erasmus University.[3]
Dreyfus died on April 22, 2017.[7][12]
His younger brother and sometimes collaborator, Stuart Dreyfus, is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dreyfus' criticism of AI
Dreyfus' critique of
Dreyfus claims that the plausibility of the psychological assumption rests on two others: the
On the basis of these two assumptions, workers in the field claim that
Dreyfus's arguments against this position are taken from the
Dreyfus argues that to get a device or devices with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being-in-the-world and to have bodies more or less like ours, and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. (This view is shared by psychologists in the
Daniel Crevier writes: "time has proven the accuracy and perceptiveness of some of Dreyfus's comments. Had he formulated them less aggressively, constructive actions they suggested might have been taken much earlier."[20]
Webcasting philosophy
When UC Berkeley and Apple began making a selected number of lecture classes freely available to the public as podcasts beginning around 2006, a recording of Dreyfus teaching a course called "Man, God, and Society in Western Literature – From Gods to God and Back" rose to the 58th most popular webcast on iTunes.[21] These webcasts have attracted the attention of many, including non-academics, to Dreyfus and his subject area.[22]
Works
Books
- 1972. ISBN 0-06-011082-1 (At Internet Archive)
- 2nd edition 1979 ISBN 0-262-54067-3
- 2nd edition 1979
- 1983. (with ISBN 978-0-226-16312-3 (At Open Library)
- 1986 (with Stuart Dreyfus). Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. New York: Free Press.(At Open Library)
- 1991. Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54056-8
- 1992. ISBN 0-262-54067-3 [23]
- 1997, Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (co-author, with Fernando Floresand Charles Spinosa)
- 2001. On the Internet First Edition. London and New York: Routledge.
- 2011. (with Sean Dorrance Kelly) All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. (At Open Library)[25]
- 2014 Skillful Coping: Essays on the Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action, Mark A. Wrathall (ed.), ISBN 9780199654703 [26]
- 2015 (with ISBN 9780198796220 [27]
- 2017 Background Practices: Essays on the Understanding of Being, Mark A. Wrathall (ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198796220 [28]
Festschrift
- 2000. Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert Dreyfus, Volume 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-73127-4.[29]
- 2000. Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Select articles
- 1965. Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence. Rand Paper.[18]
See also
- Critique of technology
- Mike Cooley
References
- ^ Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), Heidegger Reexamined: Truth, realism, and the history of being, Routledge, 2002, pp. 245, 274, 280
- ISBN 978-0-19-879622-0.
- ^ a b c d e f Anwar, Yasmin (2017-04-25). "Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ISBN 978-0-521-51837-6.
- ^ "BEING IN THE WORLD by Tao Ruspoli @ Brooklyn Film Festival". Retrieved 2019-10-04.
- ^ Magee, Bryan, Dreyfus, Hubert L. Bryan Magee talks to Hubert Dreyfus about Husserl, Heidegger and modern existentialism. [via YouTube] The Great PhilosophersBBC (1987)
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Dreyfus, Hubert L(ederer) 1929-." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Encyclopedia.com. 22 Aug. 2019
- ^ )
- ^ OCLC 276357640.
- ^ a b "Professor Hubert Dreyfus Long form CV". sophos.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
- ^ Kelly, Sean D. (2017-04-24). Weinberg, Justin (ed.). "Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017)". Daily Nous. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- OL 2043183M.. If the story that we've been telling is right, Heidegger was precisely trying to free us from our Cartesian assumptions. When I went to visit Heidegger he had Being and Nothingness on his desk, in German translation, and I said, 'So you're reading Sartre?, and he responded, 'How can I even begin to read this muck?' (His word was 'Dreck'.) That's pretty strong, but I think accurate, since if you treat Heidegger as if he were talking about subjects you turn him back into Husserl.
Sartre started out as a Husserlian, and as a phenomenologist he wrote a good novel called Nausea, which is a first-person description of a person's world breaking down. Then he read Heidegger and was converted to what he thought was Heideggerian existentialism. But as a Husserlian and a Frenchman he felt he had to fix up Heidegger and make him more Cartesian. So he starts with the individual conscious subject, but writes about Death, Anxiety, lnauthenticity, Being and Nothing - all the things that Heidegger talks about. The result, Being and Nothingness, is a brilliant misunderstanding of Being and Time
- ISSN 0026-7929.
- OCLC 18179097.
- ^ Korsnes, C. 2016, A Matter of Perspective: Interview with Dagfinn Føllesdal, Filosofisk supplement, 2/2015
- OCLC 921182846.
- ^ a b Dreyfus, Hubert L. (1965). "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence". www.rand.org. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter D" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- OCLC 26858345.
- ^ The iPod lecture circuit, Michelle Quinn Los Angeles Times, 24 November 2007, Archived by Wayback Machine
- ^ "Episode III: The Life and Death of Hubert Dreyfus · At World's End". atworldsend.co. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
- ISSN 0004-3702. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2018-07-12.
- ^ Starr, Sandy "Nihilism online?", 2001-07031, Spiked, Archived from the original on 2001-11-18 [Review]
- New York Review of Books, 2011-04-07, this being followed by 'All Things Shining': An Exchange in NYRBon 2011-05-26]
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ a b Brinkmann, Svend (2010) On the Road with Heidegger: Review of the Festschrift in honor of Hubert Dreyfus PrePrint of published review in: SATS, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 175–180, ISSN (Online) 1869-7577, ISSN (Print) 1600-1974
- ^ Sean Dorrance Kelly. 2000. Grasping at Straws: Motor Intentionality and the Cognitive Science of Skilled Behavior In Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus - Vol. II, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas, II: Pp. 161–177. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press [Author Copy]
Criticism of AI sources
- ISBN 0-465-02997-3.
- Mark Johnson, 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books.
External links
- Professor Bert Dreyfus at the Berkeley Philosophy Department Web page
- Professor Bert Dreyfus's UC Berkeley Home Page
- Professor Bert Dreyfus' online papers at UC Berkeley, with links to old Berkeley web page at the Wayback Machine (archived December 5, 2006)
- Hubert Dreyfus at IMDb
- Copy of Article "The iPod Lecture Circuit" by Michelle Quinn in LA Times, November 2007 (Archived by Wayback Machine).
- Conversations with History, an interview, November 2005
- Hubert Dreyfus Interview October 20, 2005
- Conversations about media, culture and technology. Interview between Andrew Keen and Hubert Dreyfus February 16, 2006 on AfterTV
- Hubert Dreyfus interviewed by Bryan Magee on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism for The Great Philosophers (1987) on YouTube
- Lectures from the course "Philosophy 185 Heidegger" (2007) by Hubert Dreyfus.(audio) (on Internet Archive). [Further of his Webcast Lectures hosted there]
- Professor Hubert Dreyfus - "Dostoevsky on how to Save the Sacred from Science" (video, 2015)