His 1983 book, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief, received much attention as he argued for a form of eliminative materialism about the mind.

He did graduate work at Princeton University from 1964–1968, receiving his PhD in 1968 under the direction of Paul Benacerraf and Gilbert Harman.

[1] Stich joined the University of Sheffield as an honorary professor in their philosophy department in February 2005.

He remains primarily at Rutgers, but visits Sheffield periodically, where he teaches and works at the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies.

This work reflects a general skepticism about conceptual analysis and the traditional methods of analytic philosophy.