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Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics,
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Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
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. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh
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in 1987.
Research
Oberlander described three main strands in his research: intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research onpersonality type
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s with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning
Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He attended RGS High Wycombe, High Wycombe Royal Grammar School (U.K.) from 1959 to 1965, where he won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sc ...
on diagrammatic reasoning).
Honours
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.References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Oberlander, Jon 1962 births 2017 deaths Oberlander Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge British philosophers British cognitive scientists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh