Thierry Ripoll is a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Aix-Marseille and member of the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (CNRS: UMR 7290. He is also Director of the Training Center for National Education Psychologists.
His field of speciality is cognitive sciences, particularly cognitive psychology, Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of mind. His areas of research initially concerned memory, problem solving, visual perception and attention. For several years, he has been working more in experimental philosophy. Ripoll is particularly interested in intuitive conceptions of the mind/brain relationship and published a book in 2018 on this theme “From Mind to Brain”. Currently, his focus shifted toward the psychological pr Thierry Ripoll is a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Aix-Marseille and member of the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (CNRS: UMR 7290. He is also Director of the Training Center for National Education Psychologists.
His field of speciality is cognitive sciences, particularly cognitive psychology, Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of mind. His areas of research initially concerned memory, problem solving, visual perception and attention. For several years, he has been working more in experimental philosophy. Ripoll is particularly interested in intuitive conceptions of the mind/brain relationship and published a book in 2018 on this theme “From Mind to Brain”. Currently, his focus shifted toward the psychological processes leading us to establish unfounded beliefs and he has just published a work taking stock of the research carried out around this problem "Why do we believe?"...more