John Haugeland
John Haugeland 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.
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.
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.
In Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI, which stands for Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, describing, loosely, symbolic approaches to Artificial Intelligence
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.