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Gary Hatfield is the Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Philosophy, affiliated with the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979) and has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins before joining Penn in 1987. His research bridges philosophy, psychology, and history of science, focusing on perception, Kantian theory, and the philosophy of science.
Key roles include Director of the Visual Studies Undergraduate Program and membership in MindCORE. His work spans books like The Natural and the Normative (1990) and Perception and Cognition (2009), with translations in Chinese. Awards include NSF fellowships and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship. He has advised over 20 PhD students, many now leading academics.
Research interests include theories of vision, Descartes' philosophy, and the interplay between psychology and neuroscience. He has published widely on topics like color perception, unconscious inference, and Kant's Prolegomena. Recent talks address visual perception's phenomenology and neuroaesthetic theory.
Hatfield's academic service includes editorial roles, NSF grants, and international fellowships. His interdisciplinary approach integrates historical analysis with contemporary cognitive science, emphasizing empirical and philosophical foundations of mind.
