Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird, FRS, FBA (born 12 October 1936)[1] is a philosopher of language and reasoning and a developer of the mental model theory of reasoning.
[3] He was educated at Culford School and University College London where he won the Rosa Morison Medal in 1964 and a James Sully Scholarship between 1964 and 1966.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates from: Göteborg, 1983; Padua, 1997; Madrid, 2000; Dublin, 2000; Ghent, 2002; Palermo, 2005.
He won the Spearman Medal in 1974, the British Psychological Society President's Award in 1985, and the International Prize from Fyssen Foundation in 2002.
Along with several other scholars, Johnson-Laird delivered the 2001 Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology at the University of Glasgow,[4] published as The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding (ed.