John Haugeland
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John Haugeland (born in 1945), is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he chairs the philosophy department. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and UC Berkeley, and he was a member at the Palo Alto Research Center. He has also been a visiting professor at Helsinki University, Finland.
Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He has also been a member of the Council for Philosophical Studies. Before starting graduate school Haugeland was a Peace 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 the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Hubert Dreyfus.
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, Bennett Helm, Rebecca Kukla, Eric Marcus, and Tim van Gelder.
[edit] 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.
