Gary Hatfield

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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|era = 21st-century philosophy

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| institutions = University of Pennsylvania

|main_interests = history of modern philosophy, philosophy of psychology, theories of vision, philosophy of science

| thesis_title = Mind and Space in the Nineteenth Century: Helmholtz and the Empiristic Theory of Spatial Perception

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| thesis_year = 1979

| doctoral_advisor = Fred Dretske

| doctoral_students = Lawrence Shapiro, R. Lanier Anderson (philosopher), Alison Simmons

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| education = University of Wisconsin--Madison (Ph.D.)

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|website = https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hatfield/

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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.{{cite web |title=Gary Hatfield |url=https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/people/gary-hatfield |website=philosophy.sas.upenn.edu |accessdate=19 January 2019}} He is a specialist in the history of modern philosophy up to Kant, as well as philosophy of mind.

Education and career

Hatfield earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979.{{cite web |last1=Hatfield |first1=Gary |title=CURRICULUM VITAE OF GARY HATFIELD (March, 2018) |url=https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/sites/philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/files/vita18nr.pdf |access-date=3 December 2023 |date=March 2018}} 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

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