- Keith Stenning
Keith Stenning is a
cognitive scientist and professor at theUniversity of Edinburgh inScotland ,UK . He received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology at theUniversity of Oxford [Brendan McGonigle was once one of his tutors.] in 1969, and a PhD in discourse semantics as a basis for a theory of memory [cite book
last = Stenning
first = Keith
title = Understanding English Articles and Quantifiers
publisher = PhD thesis, The Rockefeller University, New York
year = 1975] in New York, 1975, supervised byGeorge Armitage Miller .Between 1975 to 1983 he taught at
Liverpool University before moving to Edinburgh to the Centre for Cognitive Science in 1983. Between 1989 and 1999 he was the director of the Human Communication Research Centre.He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society [See the [http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/about_awards_fellows.html Cognitive Science Society website] ] and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Netherlands National Academy. He was chairman of an Expert Group gathered by the
European Commission Directorate-General for Research which proposed some lines of evolutionary cognitive research under the title "What it Means to be Human" [See the report, [http://www.eurosfaire.prd.fr/7pc/doc/1129133874_nest_whatitmeanstobehuman_b5_eur21795_en.pdf What it Means to be Human] .] .His main research interest is integrating logical and psychological accounts of reasoning. Recent work includes investigations of interpretative processes in reasoning and, with
Michiel van Lambalgen at theInstitute for Logic, Language and Computation inAmsterdam , the use ofnon-monotonic logic andneural network implementations to model reasoning.His most recent books have dealt with how the mind responds to different representations of the same information [cite book
last = Stenning
first = Keith
title = Seeing Reason
publisher =Oxford University Press
year = 2002] and his 2008 book withMichiel van Lambalgen [cite book
last = Stenning
first = Keith
coauthors=van Lambalgen, Michiel
title = Human reasoning and cognitive science
publisher =MIT Press
year = 2008] discusses the relevance of modern mathematical logic to the study ofhuman reasoning.Notes
External links
* [http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~keith/ Keith Stenning's web page]
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