- Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association.
- Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett is currently the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
- Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories of machine learning. He sees this as a crisis point in a time of an aging population that he feels will need help in performing many tasks. "We have a computer program that can beat a world chess champion, but we don’t have one that can reach for an umbrella on a rainy day, or put a pillow in a pillow case."
- Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas. Fodor argues that mental states, such as beliefs and desires, are relations between individuals and mental representations.
- Mark Johnson
Mark L. Johnson (born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is well-known for contributions to embodied philosophy, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as "Metaphors We Live By". However, he has also written extensively on philosophical topics such as John Dewey, Kant and ethics.
- Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension.
- Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad Stevan Harnad ( http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad ) did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Québec/Montréal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition.
- Mark Turner
Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He was previously Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Turner has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, …
- Ned Block
Ned Block (born 1942) is a philosopher of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was a student of Hilary Putnam. Block was for many years professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and now teaches at New York University (NYU).
- Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford.
- Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich (born May 9, 1943) is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is also currently an Honorary Professor of the department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. For the spring of 2007, he is the Clark Way-Harrison visiting professor with the department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Stich's main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, and moral psychology.
- Alvin Goldman
Alvin Ira Goldman (born 1938) is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of Arizona. He earned his PhD from Princeton University and is married to the philosopher Holly Smith who is currently an administrator at Rutgers. His principal areas of research include epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
- Paul Smolensky
Paul Smolensky (born May 5, 1955) is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. With Alan Prince he developed Optimality Theory, a controversial but influential theory about the organization of phonology. Smolensky is the recipient of the 2005 Rumelhart Prize for his pursuit of the ICS Architecture, a model of cognition that aims to unify Connectionism and symbolism, …
- Selmer Bringsjord
Selmer Bringsjord is the chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science. He conducts research in Artificial Intelligence as the director of the Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab (RAIR). He claims to have "an argument for" P = NP using digital physics.
- Kathy Sierra
Kathy Sierra (born June 19, 1957, Fresno, California) is a programming instructor and game developer. Sierra is the co-creator of the "Head First" series of books on computer programming, along with her partner, Bert Bates. The series, which began with "Head First Java" in 2003, takes an unorthodox, visually intensive approach to the process of teaching programming.
- Owen Flanagan
Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born 1949) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self. Flanagan earned his Ph.D from Boston University. Flanagan has written extensively on consciousness.
- Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 - December 13, 2003) was professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Bates was a founding member of the UCSD department of Cognitive Science, the first such department in the United States. She was also the director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders.
- Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier (pronounced) (born August 19, 1944) is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the US. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Cognitive Science. His work with Mark Turner founded the theory of conceptual blending.
- Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans is a Research Director with the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) and a professor of cognitive science with the Department of Psychology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Following an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he obtained an MS degree in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA).
- John Haugeland
John Haugeland has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago since arriving here (from the University of Pittsburgh) in the fall of 1999. He holds a bachelor's degree (in physics) from Harvey Mudd College (1966) and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley (1976). His main interests include (early) Heidegger, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind (including cognitive science), philosophy of language, and like that.
- Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted). His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment.
- Edwin Hutchins
Prof. Edwin Hutchins earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California in 1978. He joined the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD in 1988. His research focuses on the nature of cognitive activity in real-world settings. This is well illustrated in his groundbreaking book, "Cognition In the Wild" (1995, MIT Press). In 1985 Prof. Hutchins was awarded a John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- Scott Atran
Scott Atran is an American anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1952 and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. While a student he became assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1974 he organized a debate at the Abbaye de Royaumont in France on the nature of universals in human thought and society, with the participation of linguist Noam Chomsky, psychologist Jean Piaget, …
- Mark Steedman
Mark J. Steedman, FBA FRSE (born 18 September 1946) is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Dissertation:"The Formal Description of Musical Perception". Advisor: Prof. H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS). He has held posts as Lecturer in Psychology, …
- Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana (born September 14, 1928 in Santiago) is a Chilean biologist whose work crosses over into philosophy and cognitive science. Maturana and his student Francisco Varela were the first to define and employ the concept of autopoiesis. Maturana is also a founder of radical constructivism, a relativistic epistemology built on empirical findings of neurobiology. In his own words:<blockquote>Living systems are cognitive systems, …
- Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing (born 1959) is a Dutch researcher and musician. He heads the Music Cognition Group (MCG), part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and conducts research in music cognition using theoretical, empirical and computational methods.
- Gloria Origgi
Gloria Origgi is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in Paris (Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the theory of mind, epistemology and cognitive sciences applied to new technology. She is the founder (in 2002) and director of the innovative interdisciplines.org project, a portal where many international virtual conferences in the social and cognitive sciences are being organized. Gloria Origgi has published a book on the American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, …
- Wayne D. Gray
Wayne D. Gray is a Professor of cognitive science and director of the cognitive science doctoral program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Ernest Lepore
Ernest LePore (born in New Jersey) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently associate director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is well known for his work on the philosophy of language and mind (often in collaboration with Jerry Fodor, Herman Capplen and Kirk Ludwig) as well as his work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of Donald Davidson.
- Friedrich A. Hayek
At the London School of Economics, Hayek was instrumental in furthering its then-novel "continental" bent and he was highly influential on his junior colleagues (such as John Hicks ) and students (which included Abba Lerner and Nicholas Kaldor ). However, following the appearance of the General Theory by John Maynard Keynes in 1936, Abba Lerner and Nicholas Kaldor , like the rest of the economics profession, were drawn away from Hayek's orbit.
- Stephen Grossberg
Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, mathematician, and head of the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. With his wife Gail Carpenter, he developed the adaptive resonance theory of neural architecture. The ART theory was practically demonstrated through the ART family of classifiers, and was itself based on his insights in neuroscience and behaviour, …
- Tim van Gelder
Tim van Gelder is an Australian cognitive scientist. He is Principal Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne, and CEO of Austhink, an Australian software development and consulting company. He was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA, 1984) and University of Pittsburgh (PhD, 1989), …
- David Kirsh
David Kirsh is a researcher in the area of Cognitive Science. He is currently a Professor and Department Chair at UC San Diego, where he heads the Interactive Cognition Lab. He received his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Oxford University. Prior to arriving at UCSD, he spent 5 years as a research scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. His research interests include interactive design, collaborative environments, …
- Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Over the last few years he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding.
- Anders Sandberg
Anders Sandberg (born July 11 1972) is a science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University and is currently postdoctoral research assistant for the Oxford group of the EU ENHANCE Project at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University). He is co-founder of and writer for the think tank Eudoxa.
- Christiane Fellbaum
Christiane Fellbaum, born in Braunschweig, has lived since 1969 in the United States. After graduating from Princeton University with a PhD in linguistics, she became a part of the Cognitive Science department under George A. Miller and has played an active role in the development of WordNet. In 2001, through the gift of the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation, she started the 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
- Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Dr. Boroditsky grew up in Minsk in the former Soviet Union. After earning (well, receiving anyway) a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 2001, Boroditsky served on the faculty at MIT in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences. In 2004 she returned to California and took a faculty position at Stanford.
- Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley (b. October 12, 1969) is an American philosopher currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His primary interests include linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. Stanley is an occasional contributor to Brian Leiter's "Leiter Reports" blog.
- David Rumelhart
David E. Rumelhart (b. 1942, Wessington Springs, South Dakota) has made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.
- Stephen Laurence
Stephen Laurence is a scientist and philosopher, currently at the University of Sheffield, whose primary areas of research interest are the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and cognitive science. He is Director of the "Innateness and the Structure of the Mind" Project, an interdisciplinary inquiry into nativist theorizing funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He is also Co-Director of the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies.