Keith Stenning

Background

Stenning, Keith was born on June 15, 1948 in London. Son of Luis Charles and Marjorie (Warren) Stenning.

Education

He received a Bachelor"s degree in philosophy and psychology at the University of Oxford in 1969, and a Doctor of Philosophy in discourse semantics as a basis for a theory of memory in New York, 1975, supervised by George Armitage Miller.

Career

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 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".

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 and his 2008 book with Michiel van Lambalgen discusses the relevance of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning.

Achievements

• Keith Stenning has been listed as a noteworthy psychologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Cognitive Science Society American, New York Academy Sciences.

Interests

• Avocation: sailing.

Connections

Married Lynn Michell. Children: Jo, Nye.

Father:

Luis Charles Stenning

Mother:

Marjorie (Warren) Stenning

Spouse:

Lynn Michell

child:

Nye Stenning

child:

Jo Stenning