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/ |
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.
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.