MIND & LANGUAGE

Team Leader : François Recanati

This team deals with several topics at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Part of the research is associated with Recanati’s chair at College de France.

TEAM MEMBERS (2025-26)

Statutory members

• François Recanati (Collège de France)
• Isidora Stojanovic (DR, CNRS ; on leave until 2029)

Associate researcher

• Michael Murez (Collège de France)

Post-doctoral fellows

• Gregory Bochner (Collège de France)
• Romain Bourdoncle (Collège de France)
• Rory Harder (Collège de France)
• Kyle Landrum (CNRS)
• Barbu Revencu (Collège de France)
• Victor Tamburini (CNRS)

PhD Students

• Elias Cohen (Recanati, EHESS)
• Alexander Johnstone (Recanati, Pittsburgh)
• Valentin Lewandowski (Recanati, EHESS)
• WEBER Valentin(Recanati, EHESS)

Master Student

• Alexander Bak (M. Sc. Cognitive Science, ENS/PSL)

Visiting faculty

• Gergely Csibra (CEU/Collège de France)
• Sajed Tayebi (IPM/Nantes University)

Visiting PhDs

• Achraf El Rhilani (U. Bergen)

PROJECTS

• Essential Indexicality and Thoughts about Experience, ANR de recherche collaborative – internationale (PRCI), Martine Nida-Rümelin & Julien Bugnon (Université de Fribourg, Suisse), François Recanati & Gregory Bochner (Collège de France), 2023 - 2025
• Mental Files : New Foundations, François Recanati (Collège de France), ERC Advanced Grant, 2024-2029.

NETWORKS

• STAL : Slurring Terms across Languages. International network launched in 2023. Coordinators : Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS) and Dan Zeman (Univ. of Warsaw).
• PLM : Philosophy of language and mind. International network of 14 research centers launched in 2010. IJN representative : François Recanati

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Roy, I. & Murez, M. (2025) Equative Sentences : Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives. Annual Review of Linguistics (link)
• Recanati, F. (2025) Sameness of Mode of Presentation. In J.L. Bermudez, M. Valente & V. Verdejo (eds) Sharing Thoughts : Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication. Oxford : Oxford University Press, p. 193-217. (link)
• Tamburini, V. (2025) Referential Understanding, Luck, and Knowledge of Reference. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (open access)
• Recanati, F. (2025) IEM Explained. Philosophical Psychology 38:3, p. 1250-1269 (open access)
• Recanati, F. (2025) Relations infogénératives. Klēsis (lien)
• Murez, M. (2025) Le contextualisme conceptuel et la polysémie mentale. Klēsis (lien)
• Bochner, G. (2025) Sens, référence et propositions austiniennes : Réflexions autour des théories de François Recanati. Klēsis (lien)