| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Gary Hatfield | |
| 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 |
| Thesis Year: | 1979 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Fred Dretske |
| Doctoral Students: | Lawrence Shapiro, R. Lanier Anderson (philosopher), Alison Simmons |
| Education: | University of Wisconsin--Madison (Ph.D.) |
| 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.