[2] He received a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] completing his dissertation, entitled Truth and Understanding, under the supervision of Hans Sluga in 1976.
[2] At Berkeley, Hubert Dreyfus served as one of his important mentors, becoming almost a de facto doctoral advisor.
Haugeland was a research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
In Having Thought, he gathered together some of his most influential papers, thirteen, ordered both chronologically and also thematically, under a number of subject headings, namely mind, matter, meaning and truth.
[5]: 3–6 Philosophers who completed their doctoral dissertations under John Haugeland's supervision include Danielle Macbeth, Tim van Gelder, Quill Kukla, and Zed Adams.