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John Haugeland ( ; March 13, 1945 – June 23, 2010) was an American
philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
, specializing in the
philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the Body (biology), body and the Reality, external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a ...
,
cognitive science Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include percep ...
,
phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839� ...
, and
Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art, and language. In April ...
. He spent most of his career at the
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
, followed by the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
from 1999 until his death. He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film '' Being in the World''.


Education and career

Haugeland studied at
Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering. It is part of the Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. The college enrolled 902 undergra ...
, where he obtained a BS
cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sout ...
in physics in 1966. He received a
PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in philosophy at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
, completing his dissertation, entitled ''Truth and Understanding'', under the supervision of Hans Sluga in 1976. At Berkeley,
Hubert Dreyfus Hubert Lederer Dreyfus ( ; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of ...
served as one of his important mentors, becoming almost a ''de facto'' doctoral advisor. Haugeland spent most of his career teaching at the
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
, 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
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
from 2004 to 2007. Haugeland was a research fellow of the
National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
and of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research institution at Stanford University designed to advance the frontiers of knowledge about human behavior and society, and contribute to the resoluti ...
. He had also been a member of the Council for Philosophical Studies. Before attending graduate school Haugeland served as a
Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an Independent agency of the U.S. government, independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to communities in partner countries around the world. It was established in Marc ...
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 Symbolic may refer to: * Symbol, something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity Mathematics, logic, and computing * Symbolic computation, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas * Symbolic dynamic ...
. 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,
Tim van Gelder Tim van Gelder is an Australian researcher who is the co-founder of Austhink Software, an Australian software development company, and the Managing Director of Austhink Consulting. Biography He was born in Australia, and was educated at the Uni ...
, Quill Kukla, 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.


See also

*
American philosophy American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can neverthe ...
*
List of American philosophers American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can neverthe ...


References


External links


Haugeland's University of Chicago web page
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