Keith Stenning
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Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology at the University of Oxford[1] in 1969, and a PhD in discourse semantics as a basis for a theory of memory[2] in New York, 1975, supervised by George 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[3] 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"[4].
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 the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam, the use of non-monotonic logic and neural network implementations to model reasoning.
His most recent books have dealt with how the mind responds to different representations of the same information[5] and his forthcoming book with Michiel van Lambalgen[6] discusses the relevance of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning.
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- ^ Brendan McGonigle was once one of his tutors.
- ^ Stenning, Keith (1975). Understanding English Articles and Quantifiers. PhD thesis, The Rockefeller University, New York.
- ^ See the Cognitive Science Society website
- ^ See the report, What it Means to be Human.
- ^ Stenning, Keith (2002). Seeing Reason. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Stenning, Keith; van Lambalgen, Michiel (2008). Human reasoning and cognitive science. MIT Press.
