Keith Stenning is a cognitive scientist and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK.
He attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe, England, from 1959 to 1965,[1] where he won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Oxford.
Stenning received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology at the University of Oxford[2] in 1969, and a PhD in discourse semantics as a basis for a theory of memory[3] in New York, 1975, supervised by George Armitage Miller.
Between 1975 and 1983 he taught at Liverpool University before moving to Edinburgh to the Centre for Cognitive Science in 1983.
Recent work includes investigations of interpretative processes in reasoning and, with Michiel van Lambalgen at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam, the use of non-monotonic logic and neural network implementations to model reasoning.