Machery Edouard
Current Position
Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Secondary Appointment, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Resident Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience, Philosophy of mind, Experimental philosophy, General philosophy of science
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of biology
Academic Employment
2016 / Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science2014-present / Adjunct Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
2013-present / Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
2006-present / Secondary appointment, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
2015-2016 / Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
2008-2013 / Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
January-June 2009 / Visiting Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech
2004-2008 / Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
2003-2004 / Visiting Researcher, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
1997-1998 / Invited Professor of French language and literature, Boston College (MA, USA), Roman languages and literatures department
Education
2000-2004 / PhD, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Philosophy Department1999 / Agrégation de philosophie
1995-2000 / Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Philosophy Department
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2015-2018 / Regular Visiting Distinguished Professorship at Eidyn (Edinburgh)2015-2016 / Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow (Edinburgh)
2015-2016 / “The Geography of Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Universality and Cultural Diversity in Fundamental Philosophical Concepts,” awarded by the John Templeton Foundation ($196,198)
June 2015 / Kosmos fellowship, Inference, Explanation, Prediction in the Mind/Brain Sciences, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Spring 2015 / Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis
Summer 2013 / Senior Fellow of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Interdisciplinary program)
2013-2015 / “Intellectual Humility and Cultural Diversity in Philosophy: An examination of the extent and implications of cultural diversity in philosophical intuition,” awarded by the Fuller Theological Seminary / Thrive Center in concert with the John Templeton Foundation ($250,720)
2013 / Stanton Prize (awarded by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology)
Fall 2012 / Fellow of the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh
2011 / 2011 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh (junior category, $5,000)
2007 / “Moral Psychology: Building a Link between Moral Philosophy and Psychology”, A&S Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, University of Pittsburgh ($5,000)
2005 / “Understanding Racial Categorization: Toward an Integrative Framework?”, Small Grants Program, University of Pittsburgh ($6,100).
2004 / Travel grant, PSA, Austin, November 18-20, 2004
2003-2004 / DAAD fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
2003 / Travel award, SOPHA 2003, Montréal, Canada, September 26-28, 2003
2000-2003 / “Allocataire de recherche”, three-year research fellowship, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Philosophy Department
2000-2002 / “Moniteur”, teaching fellowship, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Publications
Books
1. Machery, E. 2009. Doing without Concepts. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Machery, E., and Begorre-Bret, C. 2000. Philosophie, Terminales L-ES-S-STT, Sujets et corrigés. Paris: Bréal.
Edited Books
1. O’Neill, E., and Machery, E. 2014. Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
2. Downes, S., and Machery, E. 2013. Arguing about Human Nature. New York: Routledge.
3. Werning, M., Hinzen, W., and Machery, E. 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Cova, F., Dutant, J., Machery, E., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., and Nahmias, E. 2012. La philosophie expérimentale. Paris: Vuibert.
5. Werning, M., Machery, E., and Schurz, G. 2005. The Compositionality of Concepts and Meanings: Foundational Issues. Frankfurt: Ontos.
6. Machery, E., Werning, M., and Schurz, G. 2005. The Compositionality of Concepts and Meanings: Applications to Linguistics, Psychology and Neuroscience. Frankfurt: Ontos.
Edited Journal Issues
1. Knobe, J., Machery, E., Stich, S. P. Forthcoming. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Special issue on experimental philosophy.
2. Tekin, S., and Machery, E. Eds., Forthcoming. Synthese. Special issue on philosophy and psychiatry.
3. Machery, E., and Prinz, J. Eds. 2014. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Volume 9: Perception and concepts. http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/.
4. Lisciandra, C., Hartmann, S., and Machery, E. Eds. 2013. Synthese, 190(8), 1333-1469. Special issue on Formal Epistemology Meets Experimental Philosophy.
5. Machery, E., Lombrozo, T., and Knobe, J. Eds. 2010. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 157-314. Special issue on Psychology and Experimental Philosophy, Volume I.
6. Machery, E., Lombrozo, T., and Knobe, J. Eds. 2010. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 315-476. Special issue on Psychology and Experimental Philosophy, Volume II.
7. Athané, F., Machery, E., and Silberstein, M. 2006. Matière Première. Nature et Naturalisations. Paris: Syllepse.
Articles
1. Machery, E. Forthcoming. The amodal brain and the offloading hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2. Machery, E., Stich, S. P., Rose, D., Chatterjee, A., Karasawa, K., Struchiner, N., Sirker, S., Usui, N., and Hashimoto, T. Forthcoming. Gettier across cultures. Nous.
3. Machery, E. and Zalla, T. 2015. The concept of intentional action in high functioning autism. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, 1, 152-172.
4. Danks, D., Rose, D., and Machery, E. 2014. Demoralizing causation. Philosophical Studies, 171, 251-277.
5. Machery, E. 2014. In defense of reverse inference. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 65, 251-267.
6. Colaço, D., Buckwalter, W., Stich, S. P., and Machery, E. 2014. Epistemic intuitions in fake-barn thought experiments. Episteme, 2, 199-212.
7. Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. 2013. If intuitions vary, then what? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 86, 618-635.
8. Machery, E. 2012. Reconceptualizing human nature: A response to Lewens. Philosophy & Technology, 25, 475-478.
9. Machery, E. 2012. Power and negative results. Philosophy of Science, 79, 808-820.
10. Nakao, H., and Machery, E. 2012. The evolution of punishment. Biology & Philosophy, 27, 833-850.
11. Sytsma, J., and Machery, E. 2012. The two sources of moral standing. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 303-324.
12. Machery, E. 2012. Dissociations in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. Philosophy of Science, 79, 490-518.
13. Rose, D., Livengood, J., Sytsma, J., and Machery, E. 2012. Deep troubles for the deep self. Philosophical Psychology, 25, 629-646.
14. Sytsma, J., and Machery, E. 2012. On the relevance of folk intuitions: A reply to Talbot. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 654- 660.
15. Machery E. 2012. Semantic epistemology: A brief response to Devitt. Theoria, 74, 223-227.
16. McCaffrey, J., and Machery, E. 2012. Concepts, philosophical issues about. WIREs Cognitive Science, 3, 265-279.
17. Machery, E., and Cohen, K. 2012. An evidence-based study of the evolutionary behavioral sciences. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 63, 177-226.
18. Machery, E. 2012. Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life… And why you should as well. Synthese, 185, 145-164.
19. Machery, E. 2012. Expertise and intuitions about reference. Theoria, 72, 37-54.
20. Machery, E. 2011. Modularity. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy. Ed. D. Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0150.xml?rskey=gYCpBJ&result=1&q=machery#firstMatch.
21. Machery, E. 2011. Précis de Doing without Concepts. Dialogue, 50, 141-152.
22. Machery, E. 2011. Replies to Lombrozo, Piccinini, and Poirier and Beaulac. Dialogue, 50, 195-212.
23. Machery, E. 2011. A better philosophy for a better psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 31, 90-96.
24. Machery, E. 2011. Thought experiments and philosophical knowledge. Metaphilosophy, 42, 191-214.
25. Linquist, S., Machery, E., Griffiths, P. E., and Stotz, K. 2011. Exploring the folk biological conception of human nature. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 444-453.
26. Machery, E., and Seppälä, S. 2009/2010. Against hybrid theories of concepts. Anthropology & Philosophy, 10, 97-125.
27. Machery, E. 2010. Do we talk to be relevant? Biology & Philosophy, 25, 858-867.
28. Machery, E., Deutsch, M., Sytsma, J., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. P. 2010. Semantic intuitions: Reply to Lam. Cognition, 117, 361-366.
29. Sytsma, J., and Machery, E. 2010. Two conceptions of subjective experience. Philosophical Studies, 151, 299-327.
a. Reprinted in Knobe, J., and Nichols, S. (2013). Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 (pp. 81-110). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Machery, E. 2010. The bleak implications of moral psychology. Neuroethics, 3, 223-231.
a. Translated and reprinted in Struchiner, N., Cushman, F., Machery, E., Nadelhoffer, T., Pizarro, D., and Prinz, J. 2011. Ética e Realidade Atual: implicações da abordagem experimenta (pp. 37-60). Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio.
31. Kelly, D., Faucher, L., and Machery, E. 2010. Getting rid of racism: Assessing three proposals in light of empirical evidence. Journal of Social Philosophy, 41, 293-322.
32. Machery, E. 2010. Précis of Doing without Concepts. Mind & Language, 25, 601-610
33. Machery, E. 2010. Replies to Barbara Malt and Jesse Prinz. Mind & Language, 25, 633-645.
34. Machery, E., Faucher, L., and Kelly, D. 2010. On the alleged inadequacies of psychological explanations of racism. The Monist, 93, 228-254.
35. Livengood, J., Sytsma, J., Feltz, A., Scheines, R., and Machery, E. 2010. Philosophical temperament. Philosophical Psychology, 33, 313-330.
a. Reprinted in Horvath, J., and Grundmann, T. (Eds.). 2012. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics. Routledge.
36. Machery, E. 2010. The notion of concept in psychology and philosophy and the elimination of “concept”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 231-244.
37. Machery, E. 2010. Précis of Doing without Concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 195-206.
38. Uhlmann, E. L., Brescoll, V. L., and Machery, E. 2010. The motives underlying stereotype-based discrimination against members of stigmatized groups. Social Justice Research, 23, 1-16.
39. Machery, E. 2010. Replies to my critics. Philosophical Studies, 149, 429-436.
40. Machery, E. 2010. Précis of Doing without Concepts. Philosophical Studies, 149, 401-410.
41. Machery, E., Olivola, C., and De Blanc, M. 2009. Linguistic and metalinguistic intuitions in the philosophy of language. Analysis, 69, 689-694.
42. Griffiths, P. E., Machery, E., and Linquist, S. 2009. The vernacular concept of innateness. Mind & Language, 24, 605-630.
a. Reprinted in Knobe, J., and Nichols, S. (2013). Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 (pp. 281-306). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
43. Mallon, R., Machery, E., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. P. 2009. Against arguments from reference. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 79, 332-356.
a. Reprinted in Stich, S. 2011. Collected Papers, Vol. 1: Mind and Language (pp. 332-351). Oxford: Oxford University press.
b. Reprinted in Allhoff, F., Mallon, R., and Nichols, S. 2012. Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings (pp. 220-228). Oxford: Oxford University press.
44. Faucher, L., and Machery, E. 2009. Racism: Against Garcia’s psychological and moral monism. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 39, 41-62.
a. Reprinted in Taylor, P. (Ed.). 2012. The Philosophy of Race. Routledge.
45. Sytsma, J., and Machery, E. 2009. How to study intuitions about consciousness. Philosophical Psychology, 22, 21-35.
a. Translated and reprinted in Cova, F. et al. (Eds.). 2012. La philosophie expérimentale (pp. 293-309). Paris: Vuibert.
46. Katsikopoulos, K., Pachur, T., Machery, E., and Wallin, A. 2008. From Meehl (1954) to Fast and Frugal Heuristics (and back): New insights into how to bridge the clinical-actuarial divide. Theory & Psychology, 18, 4, 443-464.
a. Reprinted in Stam, H. (Ed.) Forthcoming. Theoretical Psychology – Contemporary Readings. Sage Publications.
47. Machery, E. 2008. Modularity and the flexibility of human cognition. Mind & Language, 23, 263-272.
48. Griffiths, P. E., and Machery, E. 2008. Innateness, canalization, and ‘biologicizing the mind’. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 397-414.
49. Machery, E. 2008. A plea for human nature. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 321-330.
a. Translated and reprinted in Heams, T., Huneman, P., Lecointre, G., and Silberstein, M. (Eds.). 2009. Les mondes darwiniens (pp. 851-862). Paris: Syllepse.
b. Reprinted in Downes, S., and Machery, E. (Eds.). 2013. Arguing about Human Nature (pp. 63-69). New York: Routledge.
50. Machery, E. 2008. The folk concept of intentional action: Philosophical and psychological issues. Mind & Language, 23, 165-189.
a. Translated and reprinted in Cova, F. et al. (Eds.). 2012. La philosophie expérimentale (pp. 161-190). Paris: Vuibert.
51. Machery, E. 2007. Massive modularity and brain evolution. Philosophy of Science, 74, 825-838.
a. Translate and reprinted as Machery, E. 2012. Modularidad masiva y evolución del cerebro. In J. G. Campos, J. C. G. Gonzáles, and P. H. Chávez (Eds.), La ciencias cognitivas: Una constelación en expansion (pp. 1-20). Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
52. Livengood, J., and Machery, E. 2007. The folk probably don’t think what you think they think: Experiments on causation by absence. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31, 107-127.
53. Faucher, L., and Machery, E. 2007. La construction sociale et le concept de race. Enquête, 6, 213-241.
54. Machery, E. 2007. Concept empiricism: A methodological critique. Cognition, 104, 19-46.
55. Machery, E. 2007. 100 years of psychology of concepts: The theoretical notion of concept and its operationalization. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38, 63-84.
56. Machery, E. 2006. How to split concepts: Reply to Piccinini and Scott. Philosophy of Science, 73, 410-418.
57. Machery, E. 2006. Two Dogmas of Neo-Empiricism. Philosophy Compass, 1, 4, 398-412.
58. Machery, E., and Barrett, C. 2006. Debunking Adapting Minds. Philosophy of Science, 73, 232-246.
59. Machery, E., and Faucher, L. 2005. Social construction and the concept of race. Philosophy of Science, 72, 1208-1219.
60. Machery, E. 2005. Concepts are not a natural kind. Philosophy of Science, 72, 444-467.
61. Machery, E. 2005. You don’t know how you think: Introspection and language of thought. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56, 469-485.
62. Machery, E. 2004. Pour une approche évolutionniste de la cognition animale. Dialogue, Revue Canadienne de Philosophie, 43, 4, 731-745.
63. Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., and Stich, S. P. 2004. Semantics, Cross-cultural style. Cognition, 92, B1-B12.
a. Reprinted in Knobe, J., and Nichols, S. (Eds.) 2008. Experimental Philosophy (pp. 47-60). Oxford: Oxford University Press.