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Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American
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and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
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. His main interests included phenomenology
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, existentialism
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and the philosophy of both psychology
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and literature
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, as well as the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence
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. He was widely known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger
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, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".
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's film ''Being in the World
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having been a former student.
Life and career
Dreyfus was born on 15 October 1929, inTerre Haute, Indiana
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, to Stanley S. and Irene (Lederer) Dreyfus.Dreyfus, Hubert L(ederer) 1929-.Contemporary Authors
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He attended Harvard University
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from 1947. With a senior honors thesis on ''Causality and Quantum Theory'' (for which W. V. O. Quine W. may refer to:
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was the main examiner) he was awarded a BA ''summa cum laude
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'' in 1951 and joined Phi Beta Kappa
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. He was awarded an MA in 1952. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard in 1952-1953 (as he was again in 1954 and 1956). Then, on a Harvard Sheldon traveling fellowship, Dreyfus studied at the University of Freiburg
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over 1953–1954. During this time he had an interview with Martin Heidegger
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in remarks that are revealing of both his and Heidegger's opinion of the work of Jean-Paul Sartre
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Between 1956 and 1957, Dreyfus undertook research at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven#Husserl-Archives Leuven">Husserl Archives
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" would appear in print. After acting as an instructor in philosophy at Brandeis University (1957–1959), he attended the École normale supérieure (Paris), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, on a French government grant (1959–1960). From 1960, first as an instructor, then as an assistant and then
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, Dreyfus taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT). In 1964, with his dissertation ''Husserl's Phenomenology of Perception'', he obtained his PhD from Harvard. (Due to his knowledge of Husserl, Dagfinn Føllesdal
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sat on the thesis committee but he has asserted that Dreyfus "was not really my student.")Korsnes, C2016
''A Matter of Perspective: Interview with Dagfinn Føllesdal''
'' Filosofisk supplement'', 2/2015 That same year, his co-translation (with his first wife) of ''Sense and Non-Sense'' by
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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was published.
Also in 1964, and whilst still at MIT
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, he was employed as a consultant by the RAND Corporation
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to review the work of Allen Newell
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and Herbert A. Simon
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in the field of artificial intelligence
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(AI). This resulted in the publication, in 1965, of the "famously combative" '' Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence'', which proved to be the first of a series of papers and books attacking the AI field's claims and assumptions. The first edition of ''What Computers Can't Do'' would follow in 1972, and this critique of AI (which has been translated into at least ten languages) would establish Dreyfus's public reputation. However, as the editors of his ''Festschrift
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'' noted: "the study and interpretation of 'continental' philosophers... came first in the order of his philosophical interests and influences."
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In 1968, although he had been granted tenure
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, Dreyfus left MIT
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and became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
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(winning, that same year, the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching). In 1972 he was promoted to full professor. Though Dreyfus retired from his chair in 1994, he continued as professor of philosophy in the Graduate School (and held, from 1999, a joint appointment in the rhetoric department). And he continued to teach philosophy at UC Berkeley
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until his last class in December 2016.
Dreyfus was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 2001. 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.
Dreyfus died on April 22, 2017.
His younger brother and sometimes collaborator, Stuart Dreyfus
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, is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley
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Dreyfus' criticism of AI
Dreyfus' critique ofartificial intelligence
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(AI) concerns what he considers to be the four primary assumptions of AI research. The first two assumptions are what he calls the "biological" and "psychological" assumptions. The biological assumption is that the brain is analogous to computer hardware
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and the mind is analogous to computer software
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. The psychological assumption is that the mind works by performing discrete computations (in the form of algorithm
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ic rules) on discrete representations
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or symbols
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.
Dreyfus claims that the plausibility of the psychological assumption rests on two others: the epistemological
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and ontological
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assumptions. The epistemological assumption is that all activity (either by animate or inanimate objects) can be formalized (mathematically) in the form of predictive rules or laws. The ontological assumption is that reality consists entirely of a set of mutually independent, atomic (indivisible) facts. It's because of the epistemological assumption that workers in the field argue that intelligence
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is the same as formal rule-following, and it's because of the ontological one that they argue that human knowledge consists entirely of internal representations of reality.
On the basis of these two assumptions, workers in the field claim that cognition
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is the manipulation of internal symbols by internal rules, and that, therefore, human behaviour is, to a large extent, context free (see contextualism
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). Therefore, a truly scientific
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psychology
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is possible, which will detail the 'internal' rules of the human mind, in the same way the laws of physics detail the 'external' laws of the physical world. However, it is this key assumption that Dreyfus denies. In other words, he argues that we cannot now (and never will be able to) understand our own behavior ''in the same way'' as we understand objects in, for example, physics or chemistry: that is, by considering ourselves as things whose behaviour can be predicted via 'objective', context free scientific laws. According to Dreyfus, a context-free psychology
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is a contradiction in terms.
Dreyfus's arguments against this position are taken from the phenomenological and hermeneutical
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tradition (especially the work of Martin Heidegger
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). Heidegger argued that, contrary to the cognitivist views (on which AI has been based), our being is in fact highly context-bound, which is why the two context-free assumptions are false. Dreyfus doesn't deny that we can ''choose to see'' human (or any) activity as being 'law-governed', in the same way that we can ''choose to see'' reality as consisting of indivisible atomic facts... if we wish. But it is a huge leap from that to state that because we want to or can see things in this way that ''it is therefore an objective fact that they are the case''. In fact, Dreyfus argues that they are ''not'' (necessarily) the case, and that, therefore, any research program that assumes they ''are'' will quickly run into profound theoretical and practical problems. Therefore, the current efforts of workers in the field are doomed to failure.
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 embodied psychology (Lakoff and Johnson 1999) and distributed cognition Distributed cognition is an approach to cognitive science research that was developed by cognitive anthropologist Edwin Hutchins during the 1990s.
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traditions. His opinions are similar to those of robotics
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researchers such as Rodney Brooks
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as well as researchers in the field of artificial life
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.)
Daniel Crevier
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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."
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. These webcasts have attracted the attention of many, including non-academics, to Dreyfus and his subject area.Works
Books
* 1972. ''What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence''. (AtInternet Archive
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**2nd edition 1979 , ; 3rd edition 1992 re-titled as ''What Computers Still Can't Do''
*1983. (with Paul Rabinow
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) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
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*1986 (with Stuart Dreyfus
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). Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer
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*1991. ''Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's ''Being and Time, Division I.Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ,
*1992. ''What Computers Still Can't Do
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: A Critique of Artificial Reason''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
* 1997, '' Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity'' (co-author, with Fernando Flores
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*2001. ''On the Internet'' First Edition. London and New York: Routledge. ; 2nd edition 1979 (At Internet Archive
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*2011. (with Sean Dorrance Kelly
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) 'All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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*2014 ''Skillful Coping: Essays on the Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action,'' Mark A. Wrathall (ed.),
*2015 (with Charles Taylor) ''Retrieving Realism''. Harvard University Press,
*2017 ''Background Practices: Essays on the Understanding of Being,'' Mark A. Wrathall (ed.), Oxford University Press,
''Festschrift''
*2000. ''Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert Dreyfus, Volume 1.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. . Brinkmann, Svend (2010)On the Road with Heidegger: Review of the Festschrift in honor of Hubert Dreyfus
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of published review in: ''SATS'', Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 175–180, ISSN (Online) 1869-7577, ISSN (Print) 1600-1974
*2000. ''Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Sean Dorrance Kelly
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. 2000''Grasping at Straws: Motor Intentionality and the Cognitive Science of Skilled Behavior''
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* 1965''Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence''
Rand Paper.
See also
*Critique of technology
Criticism of technology is an analysis of adverse impacts of industrial and digital technologies. It is argued that, in all advanced industrial societies (not necessarily only capitalist ones), technology becomes a means of domination, control, a ...
* Mike Cooley
References
Criticism of AI sources
* *George Lakoff
George Philip Lakoff (; born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguistics, cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain comple ...
and 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
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).Conversations with History, an interview, November 2005
October 20, 2005
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Bryan Magee
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* Lectures from the course "Philosophy 185 Heidegger" (2007) by Hubert Dreyfus.(audio) (on Internet Archive
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Professor Hubert Dreyfus - "Dostoevsky on how to Save the Sacred from Science"
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