Edouard Machery

Edouard Machery
Alma mater	Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Ph.D.)
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]

Early life and education

Edouard Machery received 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] In 2022, he was elected President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology for 2023-2024.

References

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
8. "Center for Philosophy of Science ::: Contact".
9. "Chancellor Announces 2011 Distinguished Research Awards | Pitt Chronicle | University of Pittsburgh".
10. "Chancellor Announces 2011 Distinguished Research Awards | Pitt Chronicle | University of Pittsburgh".

External links

• Website of the University of Pittsburgh, visited in 2017.
• Website of the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, visited in 2017
• Website of Edouard Machery