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John Haugeland (born in 1945), is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and UC Berkeley, and was a member at the Palo Alto Research Center. Image File history File links Haugeland. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The University of Chicago is a private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ... The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was a flagship research division of the Xerox Corporation, based in Palo Alto, California, USA. It was founded in 1970 and spun out as a separate company in 2002. ...


Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He has also been a member of the Council for Philosophical Studies. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. ...


Haugeland first studied at Harvey Mudd College, where he obtained a degree in physics before studying for a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ...


In Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI. Haugeland's work has focused on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, phenomenology, and Heidegger. GOFAI stands for Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence. ... Rendering of human brain based on MRI data Cognitive science is usually defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e. ...


Books

  • Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (1998). Harvard University Press.
  • Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bradford/MIT Press.
  • Mind Design (1981) (editor). Bradford/MIT Press
  • Mind Design II Second Edition (1997) (editor). MIT Press
  • Rationality and Theory Choice (forthcoming) (Haugeland, J and Conant, J, eds.). University of Chicago Press.

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John Haugeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (181 words)
John Haugeland (born in 1945), is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
Haugeland first studied at Harvey Mudd College, where he obtained a degree in physics before studying for a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Book Review (2231 words)
Haugeland therefore concludes that "the individuals or tokens of which our sentences are true are just as ‘relative’ to the level of description as are the kinds or types into which those sentences sort them" (pp.
Haugeland argues that the Cartesian division between mind and body as well as mind and world may well be the source of more confusion than insight with regard to the nature of intelligence.
Haugeland not only questions the Cartesian division between the mind and the body, but also argues (along the lines of neo-pragmatism) that human intelligence and competencies are only intelligible in terms of their higher unity, where the higher unity is not to be understood as merely the sum of individual knowledge and competencies.
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