Institut Jean Nicod
  • PhD Defense - Sacha Altay - "Understanding Misinformation and Fighting for Information"

    Date : Wednesday 8 September 2021 at 3pm
    Venue : Salle Ribot (29 rue d’ulm), and on Zoom (contact Sacha Altay for the link)
    Jury :
    Dominique CARDON Michael Bang PETERSEN Pascal BOYER Briony SWIRE-THOMPSON Leticia BODE Hugo MERCIER (PhD supervisor)
    Abstract :
    Americans are more worried about misinformation than about sexism, racism, terrorism, and climate change. Fears over misinformation on social media are overblown. Misinformation represents a minute proportion of the news that (...)

  • Thesis defense - Juliette Vazard - "The Anxious Inquirer. Emotions and Epistemic Uncertainty"

    Date : Thursday 15 July 2021 at 14:00
    Lieu : By videoconference. Those wishing to attend the defense should contact the candidate Juliette Vazard
    Jury :
    M. Jérôme Dokic (Directeur de thèse), EHESS
    M. Fabrice Teroni (Directeur de thèse), Université de Genève
    M. Michael Brady, Université de Glasgow
    Mme Anne Meylan, Université de Zurich
    Mme Jennifer Nagel, Université de Toronto
    Mme Elisabeth Pacherie, CNRS
    Abstract :
    En épistémologie, des développements récents ont conduit à considérer que les (...)

  • Thesis defense - Marco Inchingolo - "What Empathy Can(not) Do. An inquiry into the epistemic possibilities and limits of empathic imagination"

    Date : Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 4:00 pm
    Place : By videoconference. Those wishing to attend the defense should contact the candidate Marco Inchingolo
    Jury :
    M. Jérôme Dokic (Directeur de thèse), EHESS Mme Cristina Meini (Directrice de thèse), Universita del Piemonte Orientale M. Paul Bloom, Yale University Mme Elisabeth Pacherie, CNRS Mme Laurie Paul, Yale University
    Abstract :
    Dans ma thèse, je soutiens que l’empathie est un processus cognitif par lequel nous imaginons la perspective (...)

  • Habilitation Thesis Defence - Marta Abrusan - "Presuppositions, Perspective and Grammaticality"

    Date : Friday, June 11, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    Location : By videoconference via this link
    Correspondant : François Recanati (Collège de France, EHESS, IJN)
    Jury :
    Regine Eckardt (U. Konstanz)
    Orin Percus (U. Nantes)
    Anne Reboul (CNRS)
    Benjamin Spector (IJN)
    Judith Tonhauser (U. Stuttgart)
    Daniel Altshuler (U. Oxford)
    Abstract :
    We do not live in a void. External information from the world is constantly perceived and processed by the senses. In order to facilitate this (...)

  • Thesis defence - Victor Pitron - "How bodily awareness takes shape: insights from disorders on body representations"

    Date : Friday, May 7, 2021 at 2pm
    Venue : By videoconference, in english
    Commitee :
    Pr Cédric Lemogne (Chairman, Paris) Pr Olaf Blanke (Rapporteur, Genève) Pr Marcello Costantini (Rapporteur, Chieti-Pescara) Pr Peter Henningsen (Examiner, München) Dr Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Examiner, Paris) Dr Frédérique de Vignemont (PhD Director, Paris)
    Abstract :
    Investigations about the awareness of one’s own body have bloomed in the last decades. In particular, the concept of body (...)

  • Thesis defence - Pablo Fernandez Velasco - "A Unified Theory of Spatial Disorientation"

    Date : Friday 23th April 2021 à 15h00
    Location : By videoconference. People wishing to attend the defense should contact the candidate Pablo Fernandez Velasco
    Jury :
    M. Roberto Casati (Director), EHESS M. Jérôme Dokic, EHESS M. Christopher Peacocke, Columbia University Mme Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, University of Milano-Bicocca Mme Barbara Tversky, Columbia University
    Abstract :
    Il existe un grand nombre d’études sur la désorientation spatiale, allant de la géographie aux (...)

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