John Haugeland (; March 13, 1945 – June 23, 2010) was a professor of philosophy, specializing in the

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are add ...

, cognitive science, phenomenology, and Heidegger. He spent most of his career at the

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, followed by the

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from 1999 until his death. He is featured in

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's film ''

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''.

Education and career

Haugeland studied at Harvey Mudd College, where he obtained a BS cum laude in physics in 1966. He received a PhD in philosophy at the

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, completing his dissertation, entitled ''Truth and Understanding'', under the supervision of

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in 1976. At Berkeley,

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served as one of his important mentors, becoming almost a ''de facto'' doctoral advisor. Haugeland spent most of his career teaching at the

, from 1974 until 1999, and he also served as a visiting professor at Helsinki University, Finland. He served as chair of the philosophy department at the

from 2004 to 2007. Haugeland was a research fellow of the

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and of the

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. He had also been a member of the

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. Before attending graduate school Haugeland served as a

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volunteer in Tonga.

Philosophical work

In ''Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea'', Haugeland coined the term GOFAI ("Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence") for symbolic artificial intelligence. In ''Having Thought'', he gathered together some of his most influential papers, thirteen, ordered both chronologically and also thematically, under a number of subject headings, namely ''mind'', ''matter'', ''meaning'' and ''truth''. Subject heading ''mind'' elaborates about cognitive science, with a couple of papers, and about Hume with a third one. Subject heading ''matter'' addresses, through three papers, the relation between the intelligibility of mind and the material or physical. ''Meaning'' musters diverse papers all about the relationship between us and the world and, finally, ''truth'' deals, by means of four papers, with objectivity in terms of ''constitution'' as grounded in commitment.Haugeland, John (1998). ''Having thought: Essays in the metaphysics of mind'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press). Philosophers who completed their doctoral dissertations under John Haugeland's supervision include Danielle Macbeth,

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, and Zed Adams.

Books

*''Mind Design'' (1981) (editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press *''Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea'' (1985). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
''Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence''
Second Edition (1997) (editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press *''Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind'' (1998). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. *''Thomas S. Kuhn, The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993 (2000) (Haugeland, J. and Conant, J., eds.). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.'' *''Dasein Disclosed: John Haugeland's Heidegger'' (2013) (Joseph Rouse, editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. *''Giving a Damn: Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland'' (2017) (Zed Adams and Jacob Browning, editors). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

References

External links

Haugeland's University of Chicago web page
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Education and career

Philosophical work

Books

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