Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
John Haugeland is a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh.
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, the Artificial Intelligence research techniques of the 1970s and before and in the perceptions of mind.
Books
- Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (1998). Harvard University Press.
- Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). Cambridge, Massachusets: 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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