12 Facts About Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hubert Dreyfus was widely known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".

The Futurama character Professor Hubert Dreyfus Farnsworth is partly named after him, writer Eric Kaplan having been a former student.

Sean D Kelly records that Dreyfus found the meeting 'disappointing.

Between 1956 and 1957, Hubert Dreyfus undertook research at the Husserl Archives at the University of Louvain on a Fulbright Fellowship.

From 1960, first as an instructor, then as an assistant and then associate professor, Hubert Dreyfus taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1968, although he had been granted tenure, Hubert Dreyfus left MIT and became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hubert Dreyfus was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Hubert Dreyfus was awarded an honorary doctorate for "his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence" and his interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy by Erasmus University.

Hubert Dreyfus's younger brother and sometimes collaborator, Stuart Dreyfus, is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hubert Dreyfus argues that they are not the case, and that, therefore, any research program that assumes they are will quickly run into profound theoretical and practical problems.

Hubert Dreyfus's opinions are similar to those of robotics researchers such as Rodney Brooks as well as researchers in the field of artificial life.