Donald Hoffman

Research Interests

• Vision, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Evolution of Perception

Education

• B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1978, Quantitative Psychology
• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983, Computational Psychology

Positions

• 1978 - 1983 Member of the Technical Staff and Project Engineer, Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, California
• 1983 - 1983 Research Scientist, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1983 - 1986 Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, and of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
• 1986 - 1990 Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, and of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
• 1990 - Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine
• 1995 - 1996 Visiting Professor, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• 1996 - 2000 Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
• 2006 - Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine