The Principal Investigators
Eugen Fischer
Eugen Fischer is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, where he convenes the UEA Experimental Philosophy Group. He has held Fellowships at institutions including the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest, and the Centre for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh. His research in experimental philosophy examines cognitive sources of philosophical problems about consciousness and perception and has introduced methods from psycholinguistics, including cross-cultural psycholinguistics, into experimental philosophy. His research in philosophy of philosophy has examined ‘therapeutic’ philosophical traditions that involve ‘work on oneself’ and the cultivation of certain cognitive habits and epistemic virtues.
Edouard Machery
Edouard Machery is Distinguised Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on the philosophical issues raised by psychology and cognitive neuroscience and he is also involved in the development of experimental philosophy. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters on these topics in philosophical and scientific venues. He is also the author of Doing without Concepts and Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds.
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Project Advisors
Helen De Cruz
Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University
Jonardon Ganeri
Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Igor Grossmann
Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Todd Kashdan
Professor of Psychology, George Mason University
Hagop Sarkissian
Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York, Baruch College
Karina Schumann
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh