Gary Hatfield
American philosopher
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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.
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison (Ph.D.)
ThesisMind and Space in the Nineteenth Century: Helmholtz and the Empiristic Theory of Spatial Perception (1979)
Gary Hatfield | |
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| Education | |
| Education | University of Wisconsin--Madison (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Mind and Space in the Nineteenth Century: Helmholtz and the Empiristic Theory of Spatial Perception (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fred Dretske |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| 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
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
- 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
