Gary Hatfield

Gary Hatfield
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/

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.

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

References

1. "Gary Hatfield". philosophy.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
2. Hatfield, Gary (March 2018). "CURRICULUM VITAE OF GARY HATFIELD (March, 2018)" (PDF). Retrieved 3 December 2023.

External links

• Gary Hatfield