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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 麻豆传媒.Pitt鈥檚 Edouard Machery elected president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
, distinguished professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich 麻豆传媒 of Arts and Sciences at the 麻豆传媒, has been elected president of the for 2023-24.
The society is a professional organization for 鈥減hilosophically interested psychologists and psychologically interested philosophers鈥 in North America.
Machery, who also serves as director of Pitt鈥檚 , is no stranger to the border between those two disciplines. An author of more than 150 papers across journals focusing on cognition, psychology, behavior and philosophy, his work tackles the philosophical issues raised by cognitive science.
He also does research on issues of methods and statistics in experimental psychology and is a leader of the , a global network of scholars tackling cross-cultural differences and similarities in perceptions of wisdom and knowledge.