Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Fred Dretske, fully Frederick "Fred" Irwin Dretske
American Philosopher noted for his contributions to Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind
"In the beginning there was information. The word came later. the transition was achieved by the development of organisms with the capacity for selectively exploiting this information in order to survive and perpetuate their kind."
"There is a gap between belief and knowledge... If you can’t know it, you can’t believe it either."