Brian Thomas

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Hubert Dreyfus (1929–2017)

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Research files

  1. L00 Overview30 passages
  2. L01 Timeline51 passages
  3. L02 Terre Haute, Harvard, Europe, the long PhD (1929–1964)22 passages
  4. L03 MIT, 1960–1968: the robot-lab students, Simon's talk, tenure16 passages
  5. L04 RAND, "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" (1965), the reaction, the chess match, Papert's AIM-15434 passages
  6. L05 What Computers Can't Do (1972): structure and argument38 passages
  7. L06 The 1979 revised edition (SHRDLU, micro-worlds, KRL) and the 1992 What Computers Still Can't Do25 passages
  8. L07 The lineage: Pascal→Kierkegaard→Heidegger→Merleau-Ponty→Todes; Being-in-the-World; the teacher24 passages
  9. L08 Stuart, Mind over Machine, the five-stage skill model, expert systems16 passages
  10. L09 Later life: Berkeley, the Internet, Heideggerian AI, podcasts, All Things Shining, death, legacy41 passages
  11. L10 Conflicts, gaps, people, sources100 passages
  12. L11 Scenes and questions16 passages