John Haugeland (/ˈhɔːɡlənd/; March 13, 1945 – June 23, 2010^[1]) was a professor ofphilosophy, specializing in thephilosophy of mind,cognitive science, phenomenology, and Heidegger. He spent most of his career at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, followed by theUniversity of Chicago from 1999 until his death. He is featured inTao Ruspoli's filmBeing in the World.

Haugeland studied atHarvey Mudd College,^[1] where he obtained aBScum laude in physics in 1966.^[2] He received aPhD in philosophy at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,^[1] completing his dissertation, entitledTruth and Understanding, under the supervision ofHans Sluga in 1976.^[2] At Berkeley,Hubert Dreyfus served as one of his important mentors, becoming almost ade facto doctoral advisor.^[3]

Haugeland spent most of his career teaching at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, from 1974 until 1999,^[1] and he also served as a visiting professor atHelsinki University, Finland. He served as chair of the philosophy department at theUniversity of Chicago from 2004 to 2007.

Haugeland was a research fellow of theNational Endowment for the Humanities and of theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He had also been a member of theCouncil for Philosophical Studies. Before attending graduate school Haugeland served as aPeace Corps volunteer in Tonga.^[2]

InArtificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI ("Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence")^[4]: 112 forsymbolic artificial intelligence.

InHaving Thought, he gathered together some of his most influential papers, thirteen, ordered both chronologically and also thematically, under a number of subject headings, namelymind,matter,meaning andtruth. Subject headingmind elaborates about cognitive science, with a couple of papers, and aboutHume with a third one. Subject headingmatter addresses, through three papers, the relation between the intelligibility of mind and the material or physical.Meaning musters diverse papers all about the relationship betweenus and the world and, finally,truth deals, by means of four papers, withobjectivity in terms ofconstitution as grounded in commitment.^[5]: 3–6

Philosophers who completed their doctoral dissertations under John Haugeland's supervision includeDanielle Macbeth,Tim van Gelder,Quill Kukla, and Zed Adams.

• 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 PressISBN 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

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