Hubert Lederer Dreyfus était professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley. Ses travaux portaient sur la phénoménologie, l'existentialisme et les implications philosophiques de l'intelligence artificielle. Un axe majeur de sa recherche fut la critique du cognitivisme, soulignant l'importance de l'expérience humaine et de l'incarnation. Il a exploré les possibilités et les limites de la cognition artificielle et de l'IA dans le contexte de la compréhension humaine.
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.
The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot of gold), and the focus of the AI community has shifted to more complex models of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and study philosophy. For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field. At a time when researchers were proposing grand plans for general problem solvers and automatic translation machines, Dreyfus predicted that they would fail because their conception of mental functioning was naive, and he suggested that they would do well to acquaint themselves with modern philosophical approaches to human being. "What Computers Still Can't Do" was widely attacked but quietly studied. Dreyfus's arguments are still provocative and focus our attention once again on what it is that makes human beings unique.
"Being-in-the-World" is a guide to Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time," focusing on his concepts of being-in-the-world and critiques of traditional ontology. Hubert Dreyfus simplifies Heidegger's dense language through relatable examples, making his ideas accessible and relevant to contemporary philosophy and cognitive science.
Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture-that is, when they are making history.
This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole.To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault's work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method—"interpretative analytics"—capable fo explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subject and his tradition."There are many new secondary sources [on Foucault]. None surpass the book by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. . . . The American paperback edition contains Foucault's 'On the Genealogy of Ethics,' a lucid interview that is now our best source for seeing how he construed the whole project of the history of sexuality."—David Hoy, London Review of Books
Defining the limits of computer technology, the authors make a compelling case that binary logic will always be inferior to human intuitive ability. A stunning reaffirmation of human intelligence.
Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a level of community? This title agues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. It includes a chapter on 'Second Life'.
Focusing on phenomenology and existentialism, Hubert Dreyfus delves into the 'background practices' that influence our understanding of self and the world around us. His work bridges philosophy and science, offering insights into how these practices shape our perceptions and interactions. This collection showcases his innovative approach to the study of the mind, emphasizing the interplay between our lived experiences and philosophical inquiry.