PhD defense - Aurore Grandin "Interplay between cognitive and socioeconomic obstacles to behaviour change: an impact-oriented psychological approach to climate change mitigation"

Date : Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 3:00 PM
Location : ENS, salle Dussane, 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Jury
Coralie Chevallier (Directrice de thèse), INSERM Guillaume Dezecache (Rapporteur), IRD Ulf J. J. Hahnel (Rapporteur), University of Basel Lucia Bosone (Examinatrice), Université Gustave Eiffel Elise Huillery (Examinatrice), Université Paris Dauphine Kristian S. Nielsen (Examinateur), Copenhagen Business School
Abstract
Addressing the threat of climate change necessitates (...)

HDR defense - Jeremy Kuhn "Sign language semantics: iconicity and the grammar"

Date : January 18th, 2023 at 9:30am
Location : Seminar room of the Pavillon Jardin
Jury :
Emmanuel CHEMLA (Directeur de Recherche, CNRS) Jennifer CULBERTSON (Professor, University of Edinburgh) Caterina DONATI (Professor, Université Paris Cité) Cornelia EBERT (Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt) Carlo GERACI (Directeur de Recherche, CNRS) Floris ROELOFSEN (Professor, University of Amsterdam)
Abstract :
Sign languages are fully-formed natural languages, with independent (...)

PhD defense - Francesco Pierini "Putting pragmatics on the map. Context-sensitivity in cartographic representation"

Date : Monday, November 20, 2023 - 3pm
Location : ENS / Département d’études cognitives (salle Berthier), 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Jury
M. Roberto Casati (Directeur de thèse), EHESS Mme Mariela Aguilera, CONICET Mme Anouk Barberousse, Sorbonne Université M. John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College M. François Recanati, College de France
Abstract
This thesis is an investigation of the context-sensitivity of maps. In particular, I defend a contextualist model of the semantics-pragmatics (...)

PhD defense - Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani "The Social World: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Social Institutions"

Date : Friday, October 13, 2023, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location : Room 2 of the Collège de France, 11, Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris.
Jury :
François Recanati, Chair of Philosophy of Language and Mind, Collège de France (thesis supervisor) Manuel García-Carpintero, Full professor, University of Barcelona (reviewer) Margaret Gilbert, Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy, University of California, Irvine (examiner) Kathrin Koslicki, Full professor of theoretical (...)

PhD defense - Dawei Bai "Intuitive physics in visual perception"

Date : 10 October 3pm
Location : Meeting room IJN and zoom
Jury :
Brian, SCHOLL Professor, Yale University Zsuzsa, KALDY Professor, UMass Boston Liuba, PAPEO DR, CNRS & Université Lyon Pascal, MAMASSIAN DR, CNRS-ENS-PSL Brent, STRICKLAND CR, CNRS-ENS-PSL Directeur de thèse
Abstract
My research investigated intuitive physics in adult visual perception through behavioral measures. I focused on the physical constraint of solidity (i.e., solid objects cannot pass through each (...)

PhD defense - Léo Migotti "Investigating musical meaning: Empirical evidence for a music semantics"

Date : Thursday 31 August at 4.30pm
Lieu : Salle des Actes, on the first floor of the main building at 45 rue d’Ulm (staircase A). If you would like to attend in person or by videoconference, please fill in the following form for organisational purposes : https://forms.gle/JbKpiQpj5MSS36g39
Jury :
Isabelle CHARNAVEL, University of Geneva, Reviewer Jonah KATZ, University of West Virginia, Reviewer Emmanuel CHEMLA, CNRS (LSCP), President of the jury Claire PELOFI, New York University, (...)