Edouard Machery

Edouard Machery is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.[1]

Edouard Machery
Born
Edouard Machery
Alma materUniversité de Paris-Sorbonne (Ph.D.)
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh

Early life and education

Edouard Machery did a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in 2004.[2]

Career and works

The research works of Edouard Machery are in philosophy, experimental philosophy, and cognitive science especially about concepts. According to his theory, the notion of concept is ill-suited for a scientific psychology. Therefore, he criticizes the neo-empiricist accounts of concepts. He has also worked on the experimental psychology, with a special focus on external validity and statistics. He has also worked on the theories of human cognition.[3]

His works are on various topics, including the processes as categorization and concept learning.[4] The experimental philosophy is another topic on which he has worked. He has used experimental and quasi-experimental methods in order to determine the characteristics of intuition and folk judgments about intentional action.[5]

Books
  • Doing without concepts
  • Philosophy within its proper bounds

Reviews of works

The works of Edouard Machery have been reviewed by other cognitive scientists.[6][7]

Awards

Edouard Machery was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award by the Pittsburgh University in 2011.[8][9] He was also awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2013.[10]

Notes
  1. "Website of the University of Pittsburgh, visited in 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  2. "Edouard Machery on the University of Pittsburgh website". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  3. "Website of the University of Pittsburgh, visited in 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  4. Website of the University of Notre-Dame, visited in 2017
  5. "Website of the University of Pittsburgh, visited in 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  6. Philosophical Reviews, 2009
  7. critic on Machery's work, 2014

References


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