Associate Professor

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• Vice-Dean, Behavioral and Social Sciences for Public Policy

 

Mathieu Charbonneau is an Associate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

He is a philosopher of science (with a special interest in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences) and the philosophy of technology.

He holds a Ph.D. of philosophy (2013) at the Université de Montréal, in Canada, where he also taught in several departments (philosophy, psychology, biology). Between 2013 and 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, in Vienna, Austria. Between 2015 and 2017, he was a Technology Studies researcher at the Science Studies Program of the Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, Hungary, where he also taught in the philosophy and history departments. He then became Research Fellow in the context of an ERC Synergy Grant, at the Cognitive Science Department of the CEU, and this until 2021. During these postdoctoral years, he also taught in different universities in Budapest (ELTE, MTK) and Vienna (UWien).

His research focuses on the mechanisms and processes of technological change. He is trying to better understand what makes human technological evolution apparently open-ended.

He also thinks hard on how we learn from one another, especially complex techniques. Finally, he is also interested in how cognitive technologies can enhance our cognitive abilities and how this is reflected in the history of science and technology.