Skillful coping: essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action

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by  Dreyfus, Hubert L.;Wrathall, Mark A

Skillful Coping

Skillful Coping
Essays on the Phenomenology of
Everyday Perception and Action
Hubert L. Dreyfus
EDITED BY
Mark A. Wrathall
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Acknowledgments
This project simply would not have been possible without Genevieve Dreyfus.
I can’t thank her enough for her encouragement and generous assistance with
every aspect of the process of editing this volume. Also deserving of thanks are
ChristianPillsbury,WillSwanson,KevinGin,PatrickLonden,PatrickRyan,and
Justin White for their participation in a reading group devoted to Bert’s work
duringcompilationandpreparationofthismanuscriptforpublication.
M.A.W.

Contents
Introduction:HubertDreyfusandthePhenomenologyof
HumanIntelligence 1
MarkA.Wrathall
Part I. The Phenomenology of Skills
1. FromSocratestoExpertSystems:TheLimitsofCalculative
Rationality(1985) 25
HubertL.DreyfusandStuartE.Dreyfus
Part II. Intentionality and Mind
2. ThePerceptualNoema:Gurwitsch’sCrucialContribution(1972) 47
3. Heidegger’sCritiqueoftheHusserl/SearleAccountof
Intentionality(1993) 76
4. Todes’sAccountofNonconceptualPerceptualKnowledgeandits
RelationtoThought(2001) 92
5. OvercomingtheMythoftheMental:HowPhilosophersCanProfit
fromthePhenomenologyofEverydayExpertise(2005) 104
Part III. Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
6. HolismandHermeneutics(1980) 127
7. ThePrimacyofPhenomenologyoverLogicalAnalysis(2001) 146
8. FromDepthPsychologytoBreadthPsychology:APhenomenological
ApproachtoPsychopathology(1988) 168
HubertL.DreyfusandJeromeWakefield
9. WhatisMoralMaturity?TowardsaPhenomenologyofEthical
Expertise(1992) 183
HubertL.DreyfusandStuartE.Dreyfus