Skillful Coping

Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action

Hubert L Dreyfus author Mark A Wrathall editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:7th Aug '14

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This collection features Hubert Dreyfus's influential essays, showcasing his critique of conventional models of the mind and emphasizing skillful, engaged human action.

In Skillful Coping, Hubert Dreyfus explores the intersection of phenomenology, existentialism, and cognitive science, drawing on his extensive experience over fifty years in these fields. This collection of his most influential essays critiques the representational model of the mind prevalent in analytical philosophy and mainstream cognitive science. Dreyfus's work is notable for its ability to inspire and challenge a generation of philosophers by engaging with the foundational ideas of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault.

The book opens with a discussion of skillful, engaged human action, a central theme in Dreyfus's philosophy, developed in collaboration with Stuart Dreyfus. This model serves as a lens through which the subsequent essays critique the limitations of representational models of the mind. Dreyfus argues that these models provide a narrow and often misleading understanding of human interaction with the world, failing to capture the richness of lived experience.

Through a series of essays, Skillful Coping addresses various issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, illustrating how the skill model can offer a more nuanced perspective. Dreyfus's insights encourage readers to reconsider traditional views on cognition and action, emphasizing the importance of context and embodied experience in understanding the mind's workings.

Wrathall has done an admirable job of assembling papers that, taken together, offer a remarkably cohesive picture of Dreyfus's position as it has developed over the years it makes an important contribution, and scholars interested in gaining a better understanding of Dreyfus's position on these topics will gain something by reading this volume. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *

ISBN: 9780199654703

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 25mm

Weight: 610g

300 pages