{"product_id":"dretske-and-his-critics","title":"Dretske and His Critics","description":"\u003cb\u003eDRETSKE AND HIS CRITICS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDretske and his Critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Dretske’s views on the nature of seeing, the possibility of knowledge, the nature of content or non-natural meaning, the nature of behavior, and the role of content in the causal explanation of behavior have been profoundly important. \u003ci\u003eDretske and his Critics\u003c\/i\u003e contains original discussions of these issues by John Heil, Stuart Cohen, David H. Sanford, Jaegwon Kim, Fred Adams, Daniel Dennett, Robert Cummins, Terence Horgan and Brian McLaughlin. Each chapter is responded to by Dretske himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeeing and Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), Dretske argued that there is a relational sense of seeing according to which, if one sees X, then X exists (or occurs); and if one sees X, and X = Y, then one sees Y. He carefully contrasted seeing in this relational sense with seeing that something is the case. In his contribution to this volume, Heil examines Dretske’s notion of non-epistemic seeing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDretske is largely responsible for the relevant alternatives response to skepticism about knowledge. In arguing that we cannot know the sorts of things we ordinarily claim to know, the skeptic appeals to irrelevant alternatives that the purported knower cannot eliminate. In their contributions to this volume, Cohen and Sanford examine Dretske’s relevant alternatives response to skepticism about knowledge.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eExplaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), Dretske defended a component account of behavior, and offered original, naturalized accounts of the nature of content and of the role of content in the causal explanation of behavior. In their contributions, Kim, Adams, Dennett, Cummins, and Horgan examine Dretske’s account of behavior and his naturalized account of the role of content in the causal explanation of behavior. McLaughlin focuses on Dretske’s naturalized account of content.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232186126680,"sku":"9781557861986","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781557861986_6010f6fa-a3c4-4621-8c56-7ef5fce0de6d.jpg?v=1778548539","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dretske-and-his-critics","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}