Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Dreyfus
Dreyfus in 2011
Born
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus

(1929-10-15)October 15, 1929
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
DiedApril 22, 2017(2017-04-22) (aged 87)
Berkeley, California, US
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
University of Freiburg
École normale supérieure
SpouseGeneviève Boissier-Dreyfus[3]
School
Institutions
ThesisHusserl's Phenomenology of Perception (1964)
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsEric Kaplan
Main interests
Notable ideas
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Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (/ˈdraɪfəs/ DRY-fəs; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence. He was widely known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".[4]

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 Futurama character Professor Hubert Farnsworth is partly named after him, writer Eric Kaplan having been a former student.[3]

  1. ^ Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), Heidegger Reexamined: Truth, realism, and the history of being, Routledge, 2002, pp. 245, 274, 280
  2. ^ Wrathall, Mark A., ed. (2017-07-20). Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism (1991). Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198796220.003.0005. ISBN 978-0-19-879622-0.
  3. ^ a b Anwar, Yasmin (2017-04-25). "Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  4. ^ Woessner, Martin (2011). Heidegger in America. Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-521-51837-6.
  5. ^ "BEING IN THE WORLD by Tao Ruspoli @ Brooklyn Film Festival". Retrieved 2019-10-04.
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