John Haugeland is a philosopher and Professor of 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, 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.