John Haugeland

John Haugeland (born March 13, 1945 - June 23, 2010 ) was an American philosopher .

John Haugeland was a professor at the University of Chicago and head of the philosophy department there. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the Palo Alto Research Center .

Haugeland is best known for the term GOFAI (Good old fashioned artificial intelligence), which he coined in his book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). The term is intended to distinguish the classic artificial intelligence according to Marvin Minsky and Herbert A. Simon , which deals with the manipulation of symbolic representations, from newer approaches that relate more to the perception of the environment of a system and are often more reactive (e.g. . Neural Networks ).

Haugeland dealt mainly with the philosophy of mind , cognitive science , phenomenology and Martin Heidegger .

Publications

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

Web links

• Website at the University of Chicago
• John Christian Haugeland II. March 13, 1945 - June 23, 2010. Obituary