This philosopher wrote that we learn to swim without developing a theory of swimming to explicate his idea of “practical holism,” which he used to describe the thought of people like Maurice Merleau-Ponty (“mer-loh-pon-TEE”). A 1972 book by this philosopher distinguishes what it calls the biological, psychological, epistemological, and ontological assumptions that underlie a certain “persistent optimism.” This philosopher’s explication of Heidegger (“HIDE-uh-ger”), which is often given a portmanteau name, is contained in his book Being-in-the-World. This philosopher drew on Heidegger to critique the “good old-fashioned” approach to a certain field, arguing that its focus on abstract symbolic manipulations was unrealistic, in a book that was reissued with the word “still” added to its title. For 10 points, name this Berkeley philosopher who critiqued artificial intelligence in What Computers Can’t Do. ■END■
ANSWER: Hubert Dreyfus [or Hubert Lederer Dreyfus] (The portmanteau name is “Dreydegger.”)
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