Skillful Coping Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action
by Dreyfus, Hubert L.; Wrathall, Mark A.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2014-10-07
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the Analytic and Continental traditions in twentieth-century philosophy focusing on non-conceptual intentional content in skilled action and in perception. He is author of What Computers (Still) Can't Do (MIT, 1992) and Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I (MIT, 1991).
Mark A. Wrathall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language and History (CUP, 2010) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (CUP, 2013).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence, Mark A. Wrathall
Section One: The phenomenology of skills
1. From Socrates to Expert Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1985)
Section Two: Intentionality and Mind
2. The Perceptual Noema: Gurwitsch's Crucial Contribution (1972)
3. Heidegger's Critique of the Husserl/Searle Account of Intentionality (1993)
4. Todes's Account of Nonconceptual Perceptual Knowledge and Its Relation to Thought (2001)
5. Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers Can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise (2005)
Section Three: Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
6. Holism and Hermeneutics (1980)
7. The Primacy of Phenomenology over Logical Analysis (2001)
8. From Depth Psychology to Breadth Psychology: A Phenomenological Approach to Psychopathology (with Jerome Wakefield) (1988)
9. What is Moral Maturity? Towards A Phenomenology of Ethical Expertise (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1992)
Section Four: Embodied Coping and Artificial Intelligence
10. Making a Mind Versus Modeling the Brain: Artificial Intelligence Back at a Branchpoint (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1988)
11. Merleau-Ponty and Recent Cognitive Science (2004)
12. Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian (2007)
Bibliography
Index
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