Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
linguist, Cognitivescientist, The Language Instinct, Harvard University faculty, scientist, evolutionary psychology…Cognitive science
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...
George Lakoff

George Lakoff

male, 68 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
linguist, metaphor, cognitive linguistics, professor, university of california berkeley, progressivism…Cognitivescientist
George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has...
Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett

male, 67 years old
Analytic philosopher, Brights movement, Brights, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, Tufts University, From Boston…Cognitive science, Cognitivescientist
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of...
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
linguist, philosopher, Left Wing, Chomsky hierarchy, philosopher of mind, theoretical linguistics…scientist, Cognitivescientist, cognitive revolution, cognitive psychology
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
artificial intelligence, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Turing Award laureate, Artificial intelligence researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…computer scientist, Cognitive science, Cognitivescientist, scientist
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter

male, 64 years old (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
professor, University of Oregon alumni, Stanford University alumni, philosophy, indiana university bloomington, vegetarian…Cognitivescientist
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic. He is best known for his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" (abbreviated as "...
Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor

male, 74 years old (NYC, New York, United States)
philosopher, Philosophy of mind, Rutgers University faculty, philosophy, modules, functionalism…Cognitive science, Cognitivescientist, Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the...
Donald Norman

Donald Norman

male
Human-computer interaction notables, professor, University of California, San Diego, Nielsen Norman Group, computer scientist, Jakob Nielsen…Cognitivescientist, Cognitive science
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at...
Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber

male
Institut Jean Nicod, Cognitivescientist, philosophy, pragmatics, relevance theory, CNRS…cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, scientist
Dan Sperber is a French anthropologist, linguist and cognitive scientist, currently a Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS. He is...
Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

male, deceased (2001)
artificial intelligence, scientist, problem-solving, Nobel Prize in Economics, cognitive psychology, information processing…Cognitivescientist, Political scientist
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive...