. The lectures are organized by the
. The 1993 lectures marked the centenary of the birth of the French philosopher and logician
(1893-1924). Besides the CNRS, sponsors include the
(EHESS). The
is expected to deliver at least four lectures on a topic of his or her choice, and subsequently to publish the set of lectures, or a monograph based on them in the
/Bradford Books; F. Recanati editor).
| Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
Video |
Publication |
| 1993 |
Jerry FodorJerry Alan Fodor is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is the State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is also the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the modularity of...
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Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-56093-3 |
| 1994 |
Fred Dretske Frederick Irwin Dretske is a philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994...
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Stanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States...
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Naturalizing the Mind |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-54089-4 |
| 1995 |
Donald Davidson Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 2003 after having also held substantive teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the...
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University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
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n/a |
n/a |
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| 1996 |
Hans Kamp Johan Anthony Willem Kamp is a Dutch philosopher, responsible for introducing Discourse representation theory , published in 1981...
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University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....
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Thinking and Talking about Things |
n/a |
n/a |
| 1997 |
Jon Elster Jon Elster is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory...
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Columbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
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Strong Feelings. Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-05056-0 |
| 1998 |
Susan Carey Susan Carey is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. She is a renowned expert in language acquisition and is known for introducing the concept of fast mapping, whereby children learn the meanings of words after a single exposure. Carey received a B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1964 and...
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New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
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The Origins of Concepts: Evolution vs Culture |
n/a |
n/a |
| 1999 |
John Perry John R. Perry is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind...
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Stanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States...
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Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-16199-0 |
| 2000 |
John SearleJohn Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and presently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin, and subsequently became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he earned an...
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University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
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Rationality in Action |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-19463-5 |
| 2001 |
Daniel DennettDaniel Clement Dennett is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive...
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Tufts UniversityTufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy....
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Sweet Dreams. Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett based on the text of the Jean Nicod lectures he gave in 2001.-Zombies:...
|
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-04225-8 |
| 2002 |
Ruth Millikan Ruth Garrett Millikan is a well-known American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language. She was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and gave the Jean Nicod Lectures in Paris in 2002....
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University of ConnecticutThe University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 28,000 students on its six campuses, including nearly 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs....
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Varieties of Meaning |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-13444-6 |
| 2003 |
Ray Jackendoff Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist. He is professor of philosophy, Seth Merrin Chair in the Humanities and, with Daniel Dennett, Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University...
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Tufts UniversityTufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy....
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Mental Structures. Language, Society, Consciousness |
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/131/ |
ISBN 0-262-10119-X |
| 2004 |
Zenon Pylyshyn Zenon Pylyshyn is a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.He holds degrees in Engineering-Physics from McGill University and in Control Systems and Experimental Psychology , both from the University of Saskatchewan. His dissertation was on the application of information theory to studies...
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Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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Things and Places. How the mind connects with the world |
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/242/ |
ISBN 0-262-16245-8 |
| 2005 |
Gilbert Harman Gilbert Harman is a contemporary American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University, who has published widely on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of language and mind. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy...
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Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
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The Problem of Induction and Statistical Learning Theory |
n/a |
ISBN 0-262-08360-4 |
| 2006 |
Michael Tomasello Michael Tomasello is an American developmentalpsychologist. He is a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany....
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyThe Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network....
, LeipzigLeipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
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Origins of Human Communication |
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/686/ |
ISBN 0-262-20177-1 |
| 2007 |
Stephen Stich Stephen Stich is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is also currently an Honorary Professor of the department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Stich's main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, and moral psychology. He...
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Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science: How the Cognitive Science Can Transform Traditional Debates |
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/974/ |
n/a |
| 2008 |
Kim Sterelny Kim Sterelny is an Australian philosopher and professor of philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. He is the winner of several international prizes in the philosophy of science, and editor of Biology and Philosophy...
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Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, also known in Māori as Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui, was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and...
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The Fate of the Third Chimpanzee |
n/a |
n/a |
| 2009 |
Elizabeth Spelke Elizabeth S. Spelke is a cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies....
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Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
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Sources of Human Knowledge |
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