We study diversity in people's conceptions of understanding, wisdom, and knowledge around the world, and seek to promote cross-cultural research in cognitive science
Principal Investigators
Edouard Machery
Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Stich
Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University
H. Clark Barrett
Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and a member of the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
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A NEW APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY
x-phi youtube series
Watch the educational video about how the Geography of Philosophy Project uses cross-cultural, experimental methods to explore diversity of concepts.
thinking about philosophy across cultures
x-phi youtube series
Watch four thoughts experiments demonstrating how people vary in their concepts of fair, beautiful, good, and free.
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Our Geography
The Geography of Philosophy Project includes teams in eight different regions: Eastern Europe, Ecuador, India, Japan, Morocco, Peru, South Africa, and South Korea. The three PIs include two philosophers and one anthropologist working in the United States of America. The Project also includes a network of international collaborators from Canada to Australia.
Are concepts of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding universal across demographics? Learn about the global effort to explore diversity outside of the Western tradition of philosophy.