Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action
Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall
Abstract
Over the last 50 years, Hubert Dreyfus has established himself as a leading figure in philosophy. His work addresses an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind. Dreyfus has inspired a whole generation of philosophers as he has creatively drawn on and clearly articulated the seminal works of thinkers like Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault. These volumes collect and publish Dreyfus’s most influential works. The book begins with a model of skillful engaged human action, a model de ... More
Over the last 50 years, Hubert Dreyfus has established himself as a leading figure in philosophy. His work addresses an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind. Dreyfus has inspired a whole generation of philosophers as he has creatively drawn on and clearly articulated the seminal works of thinkers like Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault. These volumes collect and publish Dreyfus’s most influential works. The book begins with a model of skillful engaged human action, a model developed with Stuart Dreyfus, which informs much of Dreyfus’s philosophy. The volume then presents chapters developing Dreyfus’s critique of the representational model of the mind in analytical philosophy of mind and mainstream cognitive science. Dreyfus argues that representational models of mind offer an impoverished and distorting account of human engagement with the world. The chapters show this by addressing issues in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences through the skill model. Martin Heidegger has been Dreyfus’s most important philosophical interlocutor. Dreyfus is largely responsible for making Heidegger accessible to the English-speaking world, and demonstrating Heidegger’s enduring relevance to contemporary issues in philosophy.
Keywords:
phenomenology,
cognitive science,
Hubert Dreyfus,
philosophy of mind,
Martin Heidegger,
skillful coping
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199654703 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654703.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hubert L. Dreyfus, author
University of California, Berkeley
Mark A. Wrathall, editor
University of California, Riverside
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