- John Haugeland
John Haugeland (born in 1945), is a professor of
philosophy at theUniversity of Chicago , where he chairs the philosophy department. He previously taught at theUniversity of Pittsburgh and UC Berkeley, and he was a member at thePalo Alto Research Center . He has also been a visiting professor atHelsinki University , Finland.Haugeland was a research fellow of the
National Endowment for the Humanities and of theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences . He has also been a member of theCouncil for Philosophical Studies . Before starting graduate school Haugeland was aPeace Corps volunteer in Tonga.Haugeland first studied at
Harvey Mudd College , where he obtained a degree in physics before studying for a Ph.D. in philosophy at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , under the direction ofHans Sluga . At Berkeley,Hubert Dreyfus served as one of his important mentors.In "Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea", Haugeland coined the term
GOFAI . Haugeland's work has focused on the philosophy of mind,cognitive science , phenomenology, and Heidegger.Philosophers who completed their doctoral dissertations under John Haugeland's supervision include
William Blattner ,Mitchell Stein ,Bennett Helm ,Rebecca Kukla , Eric Marcus,Arthur Ripstein , andTim van Gelder .On his University of Chicago web page Haugeland also claims to have the largest collection of nuts and bolts of any philosopher, though this claim has not been independently verified.
Books
*"Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind" (1998). Harvard University Press.
*"Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea" (1985). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
*"Mind Design" (1981) (editor). MIT Press
*"Mind Design II" Second Edition (1997) (editor). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
*"Rationality and Theory Choice" (forthcoming) (Haugeland, J and Conant, J, eds.). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
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