Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Dreyfus
	Dreyfus in 2011
Born	Hubert Lederer Dreyfus; October 15, 1929; Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Died	April 22, 2017 (aged 87); Berkeley, California, US
Alma mater	Harvard University
Spouse	Geneviève Boissier-Dreyfus
School	Continental philosophy; phenomenology; existentialism;
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley;
Thesis	Husserl's Phenomenology of Perception (1964)
Doctoral students	Fernando Flores; Charles Guignon; Mark Wrathall;
Other notable students	Eric Kaplan
Main interests	Philosophy of literature; philosophy of psychology; philosophy of artificial intelligence;
Notable ideas	Dreyfus' critique of artificial intelligence; postcognitivism; Martin Heidegger's hermeneutic realism;

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (/ˈdraɪfəs/ DRY-fəs; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence. He was widely known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".

Dreyfus was featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World (2010), and was among the philosophers interviewed by Bryan Magee for the BBC Television series The Great Philosophers (1987).

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

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