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John Haugeland
(b.1945) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he chairs the philosophy department. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and UC Berkeley, and he was a member at the Palo Alto Research Center. Haugeland 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. Before starting graduate school, Haugeland was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga.
In his book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985), Haugeland coined the term GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence).Eurozine Articles
Intelligence and the ability to take responsibility
An interview with John Haugeland
Ethically, responsibility means deciding between what one is told to do and what one ought to; cognitively, it means being ready to abandon a false theory. [more]
05.09.2006