John Haugeland
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| Born | March 13, 1945 Heidegger |
John Haugeland (/ˈhɔːɡlənd/; March 13, 1945 – June 23, 2010[1]) was a professor of philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, phenomenology, and Heidegger. He spent most of his career at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by the University of Chicago from 1999 until his death. He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World.
Education and career
Haugeland studied at
Haugeland spent most of his career teaching at the
Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He had also been a member of the Council for Philosophical Studies. Before attending graduate school Haugeland served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga.[2]
Philosophical work
In Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI ("Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence")[4]: 112 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
Philosophers who completed their doctoral dissertations under John Haugeland's supervision include Danielle Macbeth, Tim van Gelder, Quill Kukla, and Zed Adams.
Books
- Mind Design (1981) (editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press
- Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08153-9
- Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence. Second Edition (1997) (editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-08259-4
- Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (1998). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00415-3
- 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. ISBN 978-0-674-07211-4
- Giving a Damn: Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland (2017) (Zed Adams and Jacob Browning, editors). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03524-8
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "John Haugeland, scholar and former Philosophy Department chair, 1945–2010". news.uchicago.edu.
- ^ a b c "Mind, Meaning, and Understanding. A Conference in Honor of John Haugeland". lucian.uchicago.edu.
- ^ "In Memoriam, John Haugeland, 1945-2010 - International Society for Phenomenological Studies".
- ^ Haugeland, John (1985). Artificial intelligence: the very idea (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press).
- ^ Haugeland, John (1998). Having thought: Essays in the metaphysics of mind (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press).
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