Biography:Philip Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird, FRS, FBA (born 12 October 1936) is a philosopher of language and reasoning and a developer of the mental model theory of reasoning. He was a professor at Princeton University's Department of Psychology, as well as the author of several notable books on human cognition and the psychology of reasoning.[1]
Biography
He was educated at Culford School and University College London where he won the Rosa Morison Medal in 1964 and a James Sully Scholarship between 1964–66. He achieved a BA there in 1964 and a PhD in 1967.[2] He was elected to a Fellowship in 1994.
His entry in Who's Who (2007 edition) records the following career history:
- Ten years of miscellaneous jobs, as surveyor, musician, hospital porter (alternative to National Service), librarian, before going to university.
- Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Psychology, UCL, 1966–73
- Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, 1971–72
- Reader, 1973, Professor, 1978, in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex
- Visiting Fellow, Stanford University, 1980
- Assistant Director, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, University of Cambridge, 1983–89
- Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge, 1984–89
- Visiting Professorships: Stanford University, 1985; Princeton Univ., 1986.
He joined the department of psychology at Princeton University in 1989, where he became the Stuart Professor of Psychology in 1994.[1] He retired in 2012.[3]
Johnson-Laird is a member of the American Philosophical Society,[4] a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, a William James Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from: Göteborg, 1983; Padua, 1997; Madrid, 2000; Dublin, 2000; Ghent, 2002; Palermo, 2005. He won the Spearman Medal in 1974, the British Psychological Society President's Award in 1985, and the International Prize from Fyssen Foundation in 2002.
Along with several other scholars, Johnson-Laird delivered the 2001 Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology at the University of Glasgow,[2] published as The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding (ed. Anthony Sanford, T & T Clark, 2003). He has been a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences since 2007.
Selected publications
- {{Cite news|url=http://www.pnas.org/content/107/43/18243%7Ctitle=Mental models and human reasoning|last=Johnson-Laird|first=P. N.|year=2010|volume=107|pages=18243–18250|doi=10.1073/pnas.1012933107
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ahmed, F. (2011). "Profile of Philip N. Johnson-Laird". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (50): 19862–4. doi:10.1073/pnas.1117174108. PMID 22065789. Bibcode: 2011PNAS..10819862A.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Philip Johnson-Laird". 18 August 2014. http://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/philip-johnson-laird. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ↑ "Eleven professors retire from faculty". 6 June 2012. https://paw.princeton.edu/article/eleven-professors-retire-faculty.
- ↑ "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Philip+N.+Johnson-Laird&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced.
