| Edouard Machery | |
| Region: | Philosophy, cognitive science |
| Alma Mater: | Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Ph.D.) |
| 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]
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]
The works of Edouard Machery have been reviewed by other cognitive scientists.[6] [7]
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] In 2022, he was elected President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology for 2023-2024.