Conference celebrating the centenary of the death of Jean Nicod

Date : Monday 18 & tuesday 19 November 2024

Location : Salle Jaurès, ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm

The Jean Nicod Institute commemorates the centenary of the death of Jean Nicod (1893-1924), a French philosopher and logician best known for his contributions to logic and epistemology. With his two major works on geometry applied to the sensible world and on induction (La géométrie dans le monde sensible et Le problème logique de l’induction, both published in 1923), Jean Nicod anticipated central philosophical debates of the second half of the 20 th century. Author of two doctoral theses, including one with Bertrand Russell at the University of Cambridge, he was a bridge-builder between the French philosophical tradition and Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy.

The conference brings together philosophers, psychologists, social scientists and logicians who have been influenced in one way or another by Jean Nicod’s work.

PROGRAMME

Monday, November 18

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction

10:15 - 11:15 Sébastien Gandon (Université Clermont Auvergne), "Nicod contre Bergson. La structure de La géométrie dans le monde sensible"

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30 Fabrice Correia (Université de Genève), “Occuper une région : Nicod et le débat contemporain”

Lunch

14:15 - 15:15 Francesca Poggiolesi (Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques - CNRS) ‘’Explaining with reasons : from Aristotle to Machine Learning Classifiers.” Joint work with Brian Hill (Groupement de Recherche et d’Etudes en Gestion à HEC)

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:30 Laura Fontanella (Université Paris-Est Créteil) "What a single axiom can do. Nicod’s formalization of classical logic."

16:30 - 17:30 Kevin Mulligan (Università della Svizzera italiana), “Nicod’s Phenomenology of Perception”

17:30 - 19:30 Cocktail

Tuesday, November 19

10:00 - 11:00 Pascal Engel (Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Language-EHESS), “Nicod, la barre de Sheffer et la logique du jugement”

11:00 - 11:10 Break

11:10 - 11:40 Mariana Babo Rebelo (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer, “A grid-like code for two-dimensional perception of passive skin touch”

11:40 - 12:40 Patrick Haggard (University College de Londres), “Hopping, stroking, sensing, knowing : sensorimotricité et espace chez Nicod”