phenomenology

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Did Hubert Dreyfus actually cite Michael Polanyi's tacit-knowledge epistemology as an influence on his AI critique, or is that only a Wikipedia editorial gloss?

capture promoted 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
Dreyfus's 1972 What Computers Can't Do directly names, quotes, and cites Michael Polanyi — alongside Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty — as a source for its embodied/tacit-skill argument

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
In the same 1972 passage, Dreyfus's engagement with Polanyi is critical, not endorsement — he argues Polanyi's own account of rule-following undermines Polanyi's point

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
Havel's own account of Jan Patočka's death after StB interrogation — the flagged-but-unverified lead a 2026-08-19 vault capture left open

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
Dreyfus's own same-titled 2002 "Intelligence Without Representation" is built on Merleau-Ponty and Freeman and never mentions Brooks, robotics, or the subsumption architecture

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · dreyfus, brooks, merleau-ponty, phenomenology, anti-representation
Dreyfus's own 1988 account resolves the 'double role': his critique targeted symbolic AI specifically, and he framed connectionism as vindicating his phenomenology, not as its target

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, backpropagation, perceptrons
Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 Daedalus paper frames Rosenblatt's connectionism — not symbolic AI — as the program their phenomenological critique vindicated

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, perceptrons, history-of-ml
Dreyfus's critique targeted Newell & Simon's physical symbol system hypothesis — a rationalist lineage (Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein's Tractatus) the Dreyfuses separated from the Hebb–Rosenblatt neural-net line

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, symbolic-ai, philosophy-of-ai