Pr David Freedberg: "Empathy, Inhibition and Self-awarness"

On Thursday June 4th from 9am to 11am, professor David Freedberg (Colombia) will give a talk about "Empathy, Inhibition and Self-awarness".
David Freedberg (Columbia), one of the leading figures in the interdisciplinary field of art and cognition. His seminal work on The Power of Images started a series of collaborations with neuroscientists and cognitive scientists, among whom Vittorio Gallese with whom he co-authored well known articles on mirror neurons involvement in the perception of (...)

Pr Atsushi Iriki "Many Plausible Paths: Rethinking Causality and Sensemaking in Cognitive and Cultural Evolution"

On Thursday June 4th, from 3pm to 5pm, Prof. Atsushi Iriki, (Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan) will give a talk about : "Rethinking Causality and Sensemaking in Cognitive and Cultural Evolution"
Where : Meeting room of Jean Nicod institute, ground floor, Pavillon Jardin, 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Abstract :
Modern science excels at identifying optimal solutions, that is, the single best path through a problem space. Yet minds, brains, and cultures routinely navigate complexity by keeping (...)

Pr Nick Hughes "How Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’ In Epistemology ?"

On Tuesday May 5th, at 11 am, Pr Nick Hughes (Oslo University) will give a talk about "How Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’ In Epistemology ?"
Abstract
The ’ought implies can’ principle in epistemology holds that if one cannot be in doxastic state D, then one is not epistemically required to be in D. This generates a puzzle. On the one hand, something like this principle must be true, since we’re not rationally required to think like supercomputers. But on the other hand, it also seems to imply that any (...)

Pr Rowan Hall Maudslay "Decoding Tupaia’s Map"

On Thursday April 23rd, 9am-11am, Professor Rowan HALL MAUDSLAY (PSL chaire d’Excellence CultureLab) will present his work on Tupaia’s map at the Navigations Seminar. .
One of the most curious artefacts to emerge from early European contact with Polynesian islanders is “Tupaia’s map”. Dubbed “the Rosetta Stone of Polynesian navigation”, it is a map produced by a Polynesian master navigator using a non-standard representational scheme. In this talk, I will describe ongoing work in which I am (...)

Pr Armand Leroi “The evolution of culture: ancient pots to pop music.”

On Thursday March 19th, 2026, we welcome Professor Armand Leroi (Imperial College, London), who will deliver a talk on “The evolution of culture : ancient pots to pop music.”
Dtae : March 19th, 2026 | From 9 am to 11 am
Venue : Meeting room of Institut Jean Nicod, Pavillon Jardin

Johannes Kleiner "Towards Artificial Phenomenology"

Date : Friday, 31st May, 12:00 PM
Location : Amphi Jaurès, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
Local Committee : Aïda Elamrani (organiser), Quentin Coudray (facilitator)
Lunch Provided, please register in advance https://forms.gle/hxX86xWYr4i5Qcy37
About the Talk :
This talk is concerned with the possibility of artificial phenomenology—the application of phenomenology to artificial systems, most notably artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Can we, as human beings, (...)