Fred Dretske
Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Stanford University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
September 14, 2007 — 4:10 PMToll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus
About the Lecture
We see (at least) three fundamentally different sorts of things: objects (a tomato), properties of these objects (the tomato’s size, shape, color, orientation), and facts about them (that is a tomato, that is red). Stanford philosophy professor Fred Dretske discusses the first: our perception of objects. How many objects do we see in brief but attentive observation? The answer tells us something important about the nature of conscious perceptual experience.
About Fred Dretske
Fred Dretske specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, with an emphasis upon self-knowledge and conscious experience. In 1994, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris, which annually recognizes the contributions of a leading philosopher of mind. Dretske is emeritus professor of philosophy at both Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin, and has served as senior research scholar in the philosophy department at Duke University since 1999.