Education
Carey received a Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1964, a Fulbright scholarship to study in University of London in 1965, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1971.
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Career
She is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. She was employed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1972–1996 and New York University from 1996–2001 before joining the faculty at Harvard University in 2001. Carey authored Conceptual Change in Childhood, which reconciles Piaget"s work on animism with later work on children"s knowledge of biological concepts.
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She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. Carey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received many academic awards and distinctions, including the Jean Nicod Prize for philosophy of mind in 1998, and she was the first woman to receive the Rumelhart Prize in 2009, which has been given annually since 2001 for significant contributions to the theoretical foundation of human cognition. She also authored The Origin of Concepts, for which she won the 2010 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award from the American Psychological Association.
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National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Jean Nicod Prize; Arts and Sciences; Book Award; Rumelhart Prize
The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically-oriented cognitive scientist.The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically-oriented cognitive scientist.