For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has done pioneering work which brings phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. This is a selection of his most influential essays, developing his critique of the representational model of the mind in analytical philosophy of mind and mainstream cognitive science.

• Introduction: Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence


• Section One: The phenomenology of skills


• 1: From Socrates to Expert Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1985)


• Section Two: Intentionality and Mind


• 2: The Perceptual Noema: Gurwitsch's Crucial Contribution (1972)


• 3: Heidegger's Critique of the Husserl/Searle Account of Intentionality (1993)


• 4: Todes's Account of Nonconceptual Perceptual Knowledge and Its Relation to Thought (2001)


• 5: Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers Can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise (2005)


• Section Three: Phenomenology and the Human Sciences


• 6: Holism and Hermeneutics (1980)


• 7: The Primacy of Phenomenology over Logical Analysis (2001)


• 8: From Depth Psychology to Breadth Psychology: A Phenomenological Approach to Psychopathology (with Jerome Wakefield) (1988)


• 9: What is Moral Maturity? Towards A Phenomenology of Ethical Expertise (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1992)


• Section Four: Embodied Coping and Artificial Intelligence


• 10: Making a Mind Versus Modeling the Brain: Artificial Intelligence Back at a Branchpoint (with Stuart E. Dreyfus) (1988)


• 11: Merleau-Ponty and Recent Cognitive Science (2004)


• 12: Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian (2007)


• Bibliography


• Index

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the Analytic and Continental traditions in twentieth-century philosophy focusing on non-conceptual intentional content in skilled action and in perception. He is author of What Computers (Still) Can't Do (MIT, 1992) and Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I (MIT, 1991).
Mark A. Wrathall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language and History (CUP, 2010) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (CUP, 2013).