The Principal Investigators

Eugen Fischer

Eugen Fischer is Professor of Experimental 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

Miklós Kürthy

Miklós Kürthy is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia. He has an interdisciplinary background in philosophy, cognitive science, and linguistics. His research concerns moral psychology and experimental philosophy and has been featured in journals such as PLOS ONE, Mind & Language, and Cognition.

Rentuya Sa

Rentuya Sa is a Research Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She has an interdisciplinary background in the philosophy of mathematical practice, aesthetics, and mathematics education. Her research is mainly focused on cross-cultural and expert-novice experimental philosophical studies in mathematical aesthetics. She is also interested in using the method of comparative judgement to measure fuzzy philosophical notions.

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