Professor Fred Dretske
Department of Philosophy
Duke University
will be addressing the Vancouver Institute on March 17, 2001 at 8:15 p.m. in Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, University of British Columbia.
Animal Minds
Dr. Dretske is a leading researcher in the field of cognitive science and the study of how the mind perceives the natural world. He has authored several landmark books, including Seeing and Knowing; Knowledge and the Flow of Information; Explaining Behavior; and Naturalizing the Mind. Professor Dretske's work has broad interdisciplinary significance, and impacts such areas as computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. A lively and engaging speaker, he won a Distinguished Teaching award at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) where he spent most of his academic career prior to teaching at Stanford and Duke.
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