September 2002: Istvan Hesslein (aka: Stevan Harnad) was born in
Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his
graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Professor of
Cognitive Science at Southampton University. His research is on
categorization, communication and cognition. Steven is founder and editor
of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs)
a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press,
Psycoloquy
www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc)
an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
Association, and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the
Cognitive Sciences
(cogprints.soton.ac.uk/)
modelled on the Los Alamos Physics Eprint Archive and
supported by JISC/eLib. He is past president of the Society for Philosopy
and Psychology, and author and contributor to over 100 publications,
including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad
Sci 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Acad Pr 1977),
Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality
Control (CUP 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of
Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant
Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (CUP
1988), and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays on the Foundations and
Fringes of Cognition (in prep).
Visit his homepage at:
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad.
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