Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Fred Dretske
Born: December 9, 1932
Died: July 24, 2013 (aged 80)
Bio: Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Known for:
- Knowledge & Flow of Information (1981)
- Naturalizing the Mind (1995)
- Explaining behavior (1988)
- Perception, knowledge, and belief (2000)
- Seeing and Knowing (1969)