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Sam Clarke is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, cross-appointed in Psychology. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the University of York and the University of Pennsylvania. His work bridges philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with a focus on non-linguistic cognition, particularly the cognitive processes that operate without linguistic representations.
Clarke’s research explores topics such as perceptual adaptation, concept nativism, and rational learning. He has published extensively on numerical cognition, including debates about the existence of number adaptation and the innate number sense. His collaborative work often involves empirical studies with psychologists like Elizabeth Brannon, Sami Yousif, and Jacob Beck.
Key achievements include winning the Tenth Annual Essay Prize at the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Philosophical Psychology and the 2019 CSPE Bursary for outstanding work in epistemology and mind. He has contributed to high-impact journals like Cognition, Philosophical Studies, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and his work has been featured in Scientific American.
Clarke’s current projects include investigating the boundaries between perception and cognition, the content of approximate number representations, and adversarial collaborations testing the replicability of number adaptation effects. He actively engages in interdisciplinary dialogue, emphasizing methodological rigor and empirical integration in philosophical inquiry.
