Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh

Edouard Machery is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University). He has been the editor of the Naturalistic Philosophy section of Philosophy Compass since 2012 and was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award by the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 and the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2013. He is the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2016) and a Regular Visiting Distinguished Professorship at Eidyn (Edinburgh). He has also been recently elected on the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (2017-2020).

"The book is bold, provocative, engaging, ambitious and well written." - Herman Cappelen, Philosophical Studies

"what Machery presents is a manifesto — a tightly-and-powerfully-argued, eminently readable, innovative manifesto — for the X-Phi movement rather than a full-blown evidence-based policy. However, unlike the majority of contemporary political manifestos, it deserves to be taken seriously. By consolidating findings drawn from individual experimental studies, by incorporating various approaches to experimental philosophy and by advocating a particular picture of what the future of 'positive-X-Phi' could look like, this book serves not only as the foundations on which experimental philosophers can build, but as a provocative challenge to more common approaches to theorising in the tradition of analytic philosophy." - Jonathan Lewis, Metapsychology