Jon Oberlander

Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE 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.

Research

Oberlander described three main strands in his research: intelligent labelling; affect in communication ; and multimodal reasoning and communication.

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.