Michael Strevens

Michael Strevens, born and raised in New Zealand, is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where since 2004 he has taught and thought about the nature of science, complex systems, the psychology of philosophy, the role of physical intuition in scientific discovery, and the nature of explanation and understanding, among other things. In his recent general-audience book The Knowledge Machine (Liveright) he explains why science is so successful at creating knowledge and why it took so long for humans to figure out how to do it right.