John Christian Haugeland II ( ; March 13, 1945 – June 23, 2010) was an American philosopher, 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 Harvey Mudd College, He received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley,

Haugeland spent most of his career teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, from 1974 until 1999, 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 dependent on commitment.

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.
  • 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
  • List of American philosophers

References

  • Haugeland's University of Chicago web page