Hugo Mercier's website

hugo.mercier -at- gmail.com  

Université de Neuchâtel

Centre de sciences cognitives

Espace Louis Agassiz 1
2000 Neuchâtel


www.cognitionandculture.net


After a postdoc in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania, I've moved to the University of Neuchâtel for a second postdoc.

You can follow what I've been doing here.

Here is an overview of the projects I'm working on.

Most of this work has focused on the function and workings of reasoning. According to the argumentative theory of reasoning, the function of reasoning is argumentative: to find and evaluate arguments so as to convince others and only be convinced when it is appropriate. Accordingly, reasoning works well as an argumentative device, but quite poorly otherwise.

Here's a list of publications and a CV.

You can follow my blog posts here.

Resources related to teaching can be found here.