Positions held

2024-2025 to today

Co-researcher(s), Environmental and animal ethics

Biography

Harnad’s research interests are in cognitive science and open access. He is currently professor of psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), McGill University, and professor emeritus of cognitive science at the University of Southampton. Elected external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001 (resigned in protest, 8 October 2016, he was Canada Research Chair in cognitive science 2001-2015. His research is on categorization, communication, cognition, and consciousness, especially in animals. He has written extensively on categorical perception, symbol grounding, origin of language, lateralization, the Turing test, distributed cognition, scientometrics, and consciousness.