Philip Johnson-Laird

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Philip N. Johnson-Laird (born October 12, 1936 in Leeds , Great Britain) is a British psychologist , university professor and author.

He is considered one of the leading exponents of thought psychology . He has been a professor at Princeton University in the United States since 1989 . He has received honorary doctorates and is a member of several science academies. In 1986 he became a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1991 of the Royal Society . In 2007 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . Since 2006 he has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Philip Johnson-Laird left school at the age of 15 and lived off casual work (including as a musician) for ten years before enrolling at University College London in 1961 to study psychology. In 1967 he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Peter Wason .

He is married and has two children.

Johnson-Laird worked in psychological linguistics on the pragmatics of natural languages ​​and on deductive reasoning . He developed the theory of mental models , initially with Peter Wason and later with Ruth Byrne .

Fonts (selection)

  • (with Peter Wason): The Psychology of Reasoning 1972
  • (with George A. Miller): Language and Perception 1976
  • Mental Models 1983
  • The Computer and the Mind 1988
  • (with Ruth Byrne): Deduction 1991
  • Human and Machine Thinking 1993
  • How we Reason 2006
  • Mental models and human reasoning , 2010 (PDF at http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/107/43/18243.full.pdf )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows: Philip Johnson-Laird. British Academy, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ Member History: Philip N. Johnson-Laird. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 14, 2018 (English, with a detailed biography).
personal data
SURNAME Johnson-Laird, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson-Laird, Philip N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , UK