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  • Fred Dretske

  • Senior Research Scholar
  • Philosophy
  • 210 West Duke Building
  • Campus Box 90743
  • Phone: +1 919-660-2427, +1 919-660-3050
  • Fax: +1 919-660-3060
  • Office Hours: By appointment

  • Specialties

    • Epistemology
    • Philosophy of Mind

  • Research Summary

    Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

  • Research Description

    Fred Dretske (Ph.D. Minnesota) joined the Duke faculty in 1999. He is the author of Seeing and Knowing, Knowledge and the Flow of Information, Explaining Behavior, and Naturalizing The Mind. A collection of his essays, Perception, Knowledge and Belief, appeared in 2000. Recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge.

  • Areas of Interest

    Epistemology, 
    Philosophy of Mind

  • Education

      • PhD Philosophy,
      • University of Minnesota,
      • 1960
      • MA Philosophy,
      • University of Minnesota,
      • 1958
      • BSSE Electrical Engineerin,
      • Purdue University,
      • 1954

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • von Humboldt Prize,
      • 2008
      • Elected Fellow,
      • American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
      • 0 2003
      • Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished/Visiting Professor,
      • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.,
      • March 12-17, 2001
      • Senior Research Scholar,
      • Duke University,
      • 1999 - 2001
      • Erskine Fellow,
      • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand,
      • September 1 -October 15, 1998
      • Appointed Bella & Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor of Philosophy,
      • Stanford University,
      • 0 1997
      • 2nd annual Jean Nicod Lecturer,
      • Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France,
      • May 1994
      • One Year Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center,
      • 1993 - 1994
      • One Year Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
      • Stanford, CA,
      • 1987-1988
      • Appointment as Julius Weinberg Professor of Philosophy,
      • Regents of the University of Wisconsin,
      • 0 1985
      • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
      • 1985-1986
      • Distinguished Teaching Award (William Kiekhofer Award),
      • University of Wisconsin,
      • 1978-1979
      • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
      • 1975-1976
      • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Italy and England,
      • 1965-1966
Fred Dretske