Simple seeing

Fred Dretske

pp. 1-15

in: Donald Gustafson, Bangs Tapscott (eds), Body, mind, and method, Deventer, Kluwer, 1979

Abstract

I met Virgil Aldrich for the first time in the fall of 1969 when I arrived in Chapel Hill to attend a philosophy conference. My book, Seeing and Knowing,¹ had just appeared a few months earlier. Virgil greeted me with a copy of it under his arm, whisked me off to a quiet corner in a local coffee shop, and proceeded to cross-examine me on its contents.