Gary Carl Hatfield is an American philosopher and Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He is a specialist in the history of modern philosophy up to Kant, as well as philosophy of mind.
Gary Hatfield | |
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| Education | University of Wisconsin--Madison (Ph.D.) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | Mind and Space in the Nineteenth Century: Helmholtz and the Empiristic Theory of Spatial Perception (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fred Dretske |
| Doctoral students | Lawrence Shapiro, R. Lanier Anderson (philosopher), Alison Simmons |
Main interests | history of modern philosophy, philosophy of psychology, theories of vision, philosophy of science |
| Website | https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hatfield/ |
Education and career edit
Hatfield earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979.[2] He taught at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University before joining the Penn faculty in 1987.
Books edit
- The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
- Perception and Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology
- Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
References edit
- ^ "Gary Hatfield". philosophy.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Hatfield, Gary (March 2018). "CURRICULUM VITAE OF GARY HATFIELD (March, 2018)" (PDF). Retrieved 3 December 2023.
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