Stevan Harnad was born in , and did his undergraduate work at
McGill
University
and his graduate work at
Princeton
University
. Currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec and Professor of Cognitive Science at
University of Southampton,
, his research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioural and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), he is a former president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Science and an author and contributor to over 300 publications.