Jon Oberlander
Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987.[1][2]
Research
[edit | edit source]Oberlander described three main strands in his research:[3] intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning on diagrammatic reasoning).
Honours
[edit | edit source]In March 2016 Oberlander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, where he served as a member of their Young People's committee.[4][5]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jon Oberlander's homepage Archived 30 October 2005 at the Wayback Machine
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