[CogSci] Sad News

[Wayne Gray]

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Colleagues,

I want to pass on some very sad news. Sieghard Beller died recently. Many
of you will know Sieghard as an active member of CSS and active researcher.
Sieghard, along with several colleagues, organized and edited two topics
for Topics in Cognitive Science;  ``Should Anthropology be part of
Cognitive Science’’ (2012) and ``Exploring Cognitive Diversity:
Anthropological Perspectives on Cognitive’’ and was busy working on a third
topic at the time of his death, ``The cultural evolution of cognition.’’

Sieghard was a very quiet man who was also very modest, tending to believe
that it was the work, not the person that mattered. One of his concerns
after he took sick was whether he would be able to finish the paper he was
writing and he worried about who would be able to step in and handle the
final steps of editing the papers for his most recent topic. Of course, his
wife, Andrea Bender, did her best but she was busy with Sieghard so Fiona
Jordan stepped in to handle the reviews and edits of the remaining papers.
Likewise our Managing Editor, Caroline Verdier, helped make this transition
as easy as possible, I am sure Sieghard would have been pleased by how well
his last topic has been handled and we are pleased and honored to be the
custodians of his last work.

Wayne Gray
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