Edouard Machery
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Edouard Machery | |
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| Education | |
| Alma mater | Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Ph.D.) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Region | Philosophy, cognitive science |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh |
Edouard Machery is a French-American philosopher and distinguished professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.[1]
Edouard Machery received a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in 2004.[2]
Career and works
Machery works in philosophy, experimental philosophy, and cognitive science, especially concepts. According to him, the notion of concept is ill-suited for scientific psychology. Therefore, he criticizes neo-empiricist accounts of concepts. His work in experimental psychology focuses on external validity and statistics. He has also worked on theories of human cognition.[3]
Machery has written on various topics, including categorization and concept learning.[4] He has used experimental and quasi-experimental methods to determine the characteristics of intuition and folk judgments about intentional action.[5]
Books
- Doing without concepts
- Philosophy within its proper bounds
