John Haugeland
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John Haugeland was a professor of philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 from 1999 until his death. He was chair of the philosophy department from 2004-2007. He spent at most of his career teaching at the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
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. He had also been a visiting professor at Helsinki University, Finland.

Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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 and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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. He had also been a member of the Council for Philosophical Studies. Before attending graduate school Haugeland served as a Peace Corps
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 volunteer in Tonga.

Haugeland studied at Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College
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, where he obtained an undergraduate degree in physics. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, under the direction of Hans Sluga
Hans Sluga
Hans D. Sluga is a German academic, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and writes on, among other things, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and German philosophy in the Nazi period.He studied at the...

. At Berkeley, Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....

 served as one of his important mentors.

In Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI
GOFAI
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. Haugeland's work has focused on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science
Cognitive science
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, 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, and Tim van Gelder
Tim van Gelder
Tim van Gelder was a founder of Austhink Software, an Australian software development company, and Managing Director of Austhink Consulting. He was born in Australia, educated at the University of Melbourne , the University of Pittsburgh , and held academic positions at Indiana University and the...

.

On his University of Chicago web page Haugeland claims to have the largest collection of nuts and bolts of any philosopher, though this claim has not been independently verified.

Books

  • Mind Design (1981) (editor). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
  • Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence. Second Edition (1997) (editor). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-08259-4
  • Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (1998). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Rationality and Theory Choice (forthcoming) (Haugeland, J and Conant, J, eds.). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.

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