Stevan Harnad
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| Born | June 2, 1945 Budapest, Hungary |
| Residence | Montréal, Canada |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Southampton |
| Alma mater | McGill University, Princeton University |
| Influences | Donald O. Hebb, Julian Jaynes, Noam Chomsky, Alan Turing, Charles Darwin |
Stevan Harnad (Hernád István Róbert, Hesslein István, born June 2, 1945, Budapest) is a cognitive scientist.
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[edit] Career
Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He is currently Canada Research Chair in cognitive science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and professor of cognitive science at the University of Southampton. He was elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001. His research is on categorization,[1] communication,[2] cognition[3] and consciousness[4] and he has written extensively on categorical perception, symbol grounding, origin of language, lateralization, the Turing test, distributed cognition, scientometrics, and consciousness. Harnad is a former student of Donald O. Hebb[5] and Julian Jaynes.[6]
[edit] Activities in academic publishing
In 1978, Harnad was the founder[7] of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, of which he remained editor-in-chief until 2002.[8] In addition, he founded Psycoloquy (an early electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association), CogPrints (an electronic eprint archive in the cognitive sciences hosted by the University of Southampton), and the American Scientist Open Access Forum[9] (since 1998). Harnad is an active promoter of open access (EPrints,[10] EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS),[11] Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS),[12] SPARC Campus Open Access Policies[13]).
[edit] See also
- Chinese room
- CogPrints
- Computational theory of mind
- Institutional repository
- John Searle
- Open peer commentary
- Open access mandate
- Peer review
- Quote/commentary
- Scholarly Skywriting
- Student Skywriting
- Subversive Proposal
[edit] References
- ^ Harnad, Stevan (2005). To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization. in Lefebvre, C. and Cohen, H., Eds. Handbook of Categorization. Elsevier.
- ^ Cangelosi, Angelo and Harnad, Stevan (2001). The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories. Evolution of Communication 4(1) 117-142
- ^ Harnad, Stevan (2006). The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence. In: Epstein, Robert & Peters, Grace (Eds.) Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. Springer
- ^ Harnad, Stevan & Scherzer, Peter (2008). First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 44(2): 83-89
- ^ D. O. Hebb: Father of Cognitive Psychobiology (1904-1985)
- ^ What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes
- ^ BBS Inaugural Editorial
- ^ BBS Valedictory Editorial
- ^ Archive of American Scientist Open Access Forum
- ^ EPrints
- ^ EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS)
- ^ Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
- ^ SPARC Campus Open Access Policies
[edit] External links
- Interview by Richard Poynder
- Open Access Archivangelism Blog, Stevan Harnad's blog on Open Access
- list of publications by Harnad as given on Archipel , Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Academics of the University of Southampton
- Animal rights advocates
- Canada Research Chairs
- Canadian people of Hungarian descent
- Cognitive scientists
- Hungarian scientists
- Living people
- McGill University alumni
- Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Princeton University alumni
- Université du Québec à Montréal faculty
- 1945 births
