Geoffrey G. T. Fletcher

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...

Robert Fletcher

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As technology continues to progress beyond the limits of what was once thought impossible, questions concerning the state of the human dominate Western thought. However, while the lines between 'human' and 'nonhuman' are perpetually disintegrating, the human seems reluctant to move beyond humanist paradigms that deploy notions of ‘essence’ as both a unique human quality, and the justification o...

Fletcher H. McDowell 1923-2017.

Fletcher H. McDowell, MD, died at his home in New York City on April 23, 2017. He was 93 years old. Fletcher graduated from Dartmouth College and then from Cornell Medical School in 1947. He continued training in medicine there and at Stanford, returning to neurology residency with Harold Wolff at Cornell. He then joined the Army Medical Corps and was chief of neurology at army hospitals in Bad...

Geoffrey Jefferson 1886-1961.

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