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The Jean-Nicod
Lectures are delivered annually in Paris by a leading
philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist.
The 1993 inaugural lectures marked the centenary of the birth of
the French philosopher and logician Jean Nicod (1893-1931). The
lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) as part of its effort to develop the interdisciplinary field
of cognitive science in France.
The Jean-Nicod
lecturer is expected to spend several weeks in Paris, 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 Jean-Nicod Lectures series
(MIT Press/Bradford Books; F. Recanati editor).
Since 1996 the
annual lecturer is awarded the Jean-Nicod
Prize during a ceremony which follows the deliverance
of the first lecture.
Besides CNRS, the sponsors include two French institutions: Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and Ecole Normale
Supérieure.
The annual lecturer
is selected by the Jean-Nicod Committee, which includes (as of 2003) the
following:
President
Jacques
Bouveresse, Professor at College de France (Paris)
Secretary
François
Recanati, Research director, CNRS (Paris)
Other
members
Mario
Borillo, Research director, CNRS (Toulouse)
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professor at College de France
(Paris)
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Professor at the University
of Paris-VI
André Holley, Director, Institut des sciences
du goût et de l'olfaction (Dijon)
Michel Imbert, Professor at the University of Toulouse
Pierre Jacob, Research director, CNRS (Paris)
Jacques Mehler, Research director, CNRS (Paris)
Elisabeth Pacherie, Research associate, CNRS (Paris)
Philippe de Rouilhan, Research director, CNRS (Paris)
Dan Sperber, Research director, CNRS (Paris)
In 2004 the
Jean-Nicod lecturer will be Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers
University) [programme].
The previous
Jean-Nicod lecturers
were, in chronological order (click to see the published
lectures references):
Jerry
Fodor (Rutgers University) - 1993
Fred
Dretske (Stanford University) - 1994
Donald Davidson (UC Berkeley)
- 1995
Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart)
- 1996
Jon
Elster (Columbia University) - 1997
Susan Carey (New York University)
- 1998
John
Perry (Stanford University) - 1999
John
Searle (UC Berkeley) - 2000
Daniel Dennett
(Tufts University) - 2001 [ more
]
Ruth Millikan
(Connecticut University) - 2002 [ more
]
Ray Jackendoff
(Brandeis University) - 2003 [ more
]
Correspondence
or inquiries regarding the Jean-Nicod lectures can be addressed
to:
Nausicaa
Pouscoulous
Institut Nicod
/ CNRS
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