Keith Stenning
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Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe, England, from 1959 to 1965,Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe - School List for 1965 where he won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Oxford.
Career
Stenning received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology at the University of OxfordBrendan 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
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| title = Understanding English Articles and Quantifiers
| publisher = PhD thesis, The Rockefeller University, New York
| year = 1975}} in New York, 1975, supervised by George Armitage Miller.
Between 1975 and 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.{{cite newspaper The Times|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=hamlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF501952653&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=But who will write tie plaintive headlines?|author=Pearce Wright|department=Feature Articles (aka Opinion)|date=27 November 1992|page=34|issue=64501|accessdate=2018-08-28}}{{cite newspaper The Times|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=hamlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF501222623&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=The University of Edinburgh|department=Display Advertising|date=6 June 1997|page=42|issue=65909|accessdate=2018-08-28}}
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Cognitive Science SocietySee the [http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/about_awards_fellows.html Cognitive Science Society website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716115712/http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/about_awards_fellows.html |date=2015-07-16 }} 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 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{{cite book
| last = Stenning
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| title = Seeing Reason
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| year = 2002}} and his 2008 book with Michiel van Lambalgen{{cite book
| last = Stenning
| first = Keith
|author2=van Lambalgen, Michiel
| title = Human reasoning and cognitive science
| url = https://archive.org/details/humanreasoni_sten_2008_000_10735669
| url-access = registration
| publisher = MIT Press
| year = 2008}} discusses the relevance of modern mathematical logic to the study of
human reasoning.
He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/6723 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214184551/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/6723 |title=K. Stenning |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=2016-02-14 |accessdate=2016-02-14}}
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External links
- [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Keith_Stenning.html Keith Stenning's web page]
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Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:British psychologists
Category:Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe