Hubert L Dreyfus

Biographic Data

ID97264
NAMEHubert L Dreyfus
GIVEN NAMESHubert L
FAMILY NAMEDreyfus
SIGNATUREDREYFUS H L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS481
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX5

  • Background Practices

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Mark A WrathallBOOKBackground Practices2017

    Hubert Dreyfus is one of the foremost advocates of European philosophy in the anglophone world. His clear, jargon-free interpretations of the leading thinkers of the European tradition of philosophy have done a great deal to erase the analytic–Continental divide. But Dreyfus is not just an influential interpreter of Continental philosophers; he is a creative, iconoclastic thinker in his own right. Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Husserl, Merlea…

  • On the Ordering of Things

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Mark A WrathallBOOKBackground Practices2017

    Dreyfus illuminates the style of the background practices of our current technological world by comparing Heidegger’s account of Gestell with Foucault’s account of biopower. Heidegger’s emphasis on the signification contexts within which people and things show up and encounter each other is complemented by Foucault’s emphasis on the way embodied practices perpetuate, delimit, and produce what people are capable of saying and doing. Foucault’s reg…

  • Retrieving Realism

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Hubert Dreyfus et al.BOOKRetrieving Realism2015

    For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.

  • Skillful Coping

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Mark A WrathallBOOKSkillful Coping2014

    For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has done pioneering work which brings phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. This is a selection of his most influential essays, developing his critique of the representational model of the mind in analytical philosophy of mind and mainstream cognitive science.

  • Michel Foucault

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Paul RabinowBOOKMichel Foucault2014

  • The Return of the Myth of the Mental∗

    Hubert L DreyfusARTICLEInquiry2007

    McDowell's claim that “in mature human beings, embodied coping is permeated with mindedness”,1 1. “What Myth?”, this issue, p. 339. suggests a new version of the mentalist myth which, like the others, is untrue to the phenomenon. The phenomena show that embodied skills, when we are fully absorbed in enacting them, have a kind of non‐mental content that is non‐conceptual, non‐propositional, non‐rational and non‐linguistic. This is not to deny that…

  • Detachment, Involvement, and Rationality

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Hubert DreyfusARTICLEHuman Affairs2007Cited by: 2

    Detachment, Involvement, and Rationality: are we Essentially Rational Animals? Philosophers have long thought that what differentiates humans from mere animals is that humans are essentially rational. The rational nature of human beings lies in their ability to detach themselves from ongoing involvement and to ask for as well as give reasons for activity. According to the philosophical tradition, human action and perception generally should be un…

  • Peripheral Vision

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Stuart E DreyfusARTICLEOrganization Studies2005

    In this paper we describe a five-stage phenomenological model of skill acquisition, of which expertise is the highest stage. Contrary to the claims of knowledge engineers, we argue that expertise in general, and medical expertise in particular, cannot be captured in rule-based expert systems, since expertise is based on the making of immediate, unreflective situational responses; intuitive judgment is the hallmark of expertise. Deliberation is ce…

  • A Companion to Heidegger

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Mark A WrathallBOOKCompanion to Heidegger2005

  • The Ethical Implications of the Five-Stage Skill-Acquisition Model

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Stuart E DreyfusARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2004

    We assume that acting ethically is a skill. We then use a phenomenological description of five stages of skill acquisition to argue that an ethics based on principles corresponds to a beginner’s reliance on rules and so is developmentally inferior to an ethics based on expert response that claims that, after long experience, the ethical expert learns to respond appropriately to each unique situation. The skills model thus supports an ethics of si…

  • What Could Be More Intelligible Than Everyday Intelligibility? Reinterpreting Division I of Being and Time in the Light of Division II

    Open AccessHubert L DreyfusARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2004

    Martin Heidegger was the first philosopher to see skillful coping as the basis of our understanding of the world and ourselves. But he acknowledges that such average understanding is banal and conceals more than it reveals. He, therefore, holds that, to ground intelligibility, people must conform to everyday practical norms, but that, by acting in the face of anxiety, a person can resist conformism and refine standard ways of acting. His model is…

  • Further Reflections on Heidegger, Technology, and the Everyday

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Charles SpinosaARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2003

    This article traces the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking about technology over the course of what is considered to be his early, middle, and late periods. Over the course of the years, Heidegger’s concerns moved from somewhat conventional concerns over the consumerism technology entails, and the damage it causes to the environment, to the more complex position that technicity distorts human nature with an accompanying loss of meaning. The real …

  • Intelligence without representation – Merleau-Ponty's critique of mental representation The relevance of phenomenology to scientific explanation

    Open AccessHubert L DreyfusARTICLEPhenomenology and the Cognitive…2002

  • Anonymity versus Commitment

    Hubert L DreyfusARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2002Cited by: 1

  • How Far Is Distance Learning From Education

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Hubert DreyfusARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…2001

  • Single-World versus Plural-World Antiessentialism

    Charles Spinosa, Hubert L DreyfusARTICLECritical Inquiry1997Cited by: 1

  • Being and power

    Hubert L DreyfusARTICLEInternational Journal of…1996

    At the heart of Heidegger's thought is the notion of being, and the same can be said of power in the works of Foucault. And, just as Heidegger offers a history of being, culminating in the technological understanding of being, in order to help us understand and overcome our current way of dealing with things as objects, Foucault analyses several regimes of power, culminating in modern bio‐power, in order to help us free ourselves from understandi…

  • Two Kinds of Antiessentialism and Their Consequences

    Charles Spinosa, Hubert L DreyfusARTICLECritical Inquiry1996Cited by: 15

  • Kierkegaard on the nihilism of the present age

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Hubert Dreyfus et al.ARTICLESynthese1994

  • Was ist moralische Reife?

    Hubert L DreyfusARTICLEDeutsche Zeitschrift für…1993

    L'A. examine notre tendance naturelle et spontanee a la moralite, afin de determiner les conditions d'apparition de la deliberation et du choix, et definir la nature de notre ethique veritable cachee sous les preceptes de La Morale

  • La critique heideggerienne et l'approche husserlienne et searlienne de l'intentionnalité

    Hubert L Dreyfus, Jean LassègueARTICLEIntellectica Revue de l…1993

    On montre que ce qui sépare la conception de l'action que l'on peut déduire de Husserl, par exemple chez Searle et celle de Heidegger, est leur conception divergente de l'intentionnalité, liée chez Husserl à la notion de représentation et chez Heidegger à la notion d'être au monde. Heidegger critique la conception husserlienne sur deux points principaux : 1°-L'expérience de l'action ne nécessite pas que je cause l'action 2°-Il n'est pas nécessair…

  • Being-in-the-World

    Mark Okrent, Hubert L DreyfusARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1993

  • What computers still can't do

    Hubert L DreyfusBOOKWhat computers still can't do1992

  • What artificial experts can and cannot do

    Open AccessHubert L Dreyfus, Stuart E DreyfusARTICLEAI & Society1992

  • Response to Collins, Artificial Experts

    Open AccessHubert L DreyfusARTICLESocial Studies of Science1992Cited by: 3

    Harry Collins's basic idea is that machines can behave intelligently in domains where we have chosen to discipline ourselves into behaving like machines.' We use calculators and can work on assembly lines in a rigid, repeatable way because we have learned to respond in a way that is insensitive to context.2 Such behaviour is digitalizable. There will still be occasional breakdowns but we ignore them or unreflectively repair them. No type of compu…