Brent Strickland

Brent Strickland is a researcher at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris, France (ENS-EHESS-CNRS). His work is at the boundaries between cognitive psychology, philosophy, and computer human interaction. He was an undergraduate at New York University, and then received a master’s degree in cognitive science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris before obtaining a PhD in cognitive and developmental psychology from Yale University in 2013.

At the Jean Nicod Institute, Brent runs the “experimental philosophy” group, which is dedicated to asking age-old questions using modern experimental methods and cutting edge technology. The findings from these experiments help answer big questions about human nature and society like “Where does human language come from,” “What is knowledge,” and “What is scientific progress?”