INSTITUT JEAN NICOD

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

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-04-24T09:48:17Z

Le mardi 5 mai, à 11 h, le Professeur Nick Hughes (Université d'Oslo) donnera une conférence intitulée "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 (...)

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Pr Rowan Hall Maudslay "Decoding Tupaia's Map"

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-04-13T15:52:13Z

Le jeudi 23 avril, de 9 h à 11 h, le professeur Rowan HALL MAUDSLAY (chaire d'Excellence CultureLab du PSL) présentera ses travaux consacrés à la carte de Tupaia lors du séminaire « Navigations ».
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 (...)

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Workshop : Aesthetics, Cognition & Environnement

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-03-30T16:48:36Z

Tuesday, 14th April, 2026 | 9:45 am-5:00 pm | Salle de réunion de l'Institut Jean Ncod
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Schedule
9.45-10:00
Introduction
10:00-11:00
Sandra Shapshay | City University of New York
"Picturesque Environmentalism : The Curious Case of the Landfill Park"
11.00-12.00
Enrico Terrone | University of Genova
"Sites and Types : The Cognitive and Environmental Dimensions of Architectural Ontology"
12.00 | Lunch
14.00-15:00
Marta Benenti | University of Murcia, University of Bergamo (...)

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

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-03-16T17:36:03Z

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

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Journée d'Études de la mention Philosophie de l'EHESS

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-03-13T15:25:01Z

Mercredi 25 Mars, 2026 | 8:30 - 17:00 | Salle 100 , Centre des colloques
EHESS | Place du Front populaire | 93300 Aubervilliers
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Programme
9:45 - 11:00
Panel 1 | Action : (Dé)Régler la conduite humaine.
Modéré par Firuza Muryasova-Bernier
Métaphysique et réalité éthique : faire face à l'inintelligible.
MOSSINO Amandine
Pédagogie et raison instrumentale : une action émancipatrice ?
ROIG Titouan
Qu'est-ce que le consentement ? Grammaire d'un concept.
DALTON Alexander
11:20 - 12:35
Panel (...)

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Dan Sperber Master Class "Rethinking social ontology from scratch"

Frederique GODFROID — 2026-01-14T13:51:09Z

In January Dan Sperber will give a Master Class, in which he will present his most recent research on social ontology (abstract below).
His research has been at the crossroad between anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. He has been one of the first to develop a naturalistic approach to culture under the name of epidemiology of representations. With Deirdre Wilson, he has also developed a cognitive approach to communication known as Relevance Theory. More recently, with (...)

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Workshop : Philosophie de la perception

Quentin Coudray — 2025-03-27T14:15:55Z

Jeudi 10 Avril, 14h-18h, Salle des elements (ENS)
Julia Smortchkova (Grenoble) “Social perceptual illusions and mind misreading”
Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod) “A future orientation for visual experiences ?"
Jessie Munton (Cambridge) “How long is a visual experience ?”
Si vous souhaitez participer, veuillez envoyer un courriel à denis.buehler@ens.fr.

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Workshop : issues in mind

Quentin Coudray — 2025-03-11T07:42:19Z

Michael Murez (Collège de France) “Polysemous mental files”
Thor Gruenbaum (Copenhagen) “Experiment, replication, and theory"
EJ Green (Johns Hopkins) "Shape Perception : Complexity, Constancy, and Abstraction"
If you would like to participate, please send an email to denis.buehler@ens.fr

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Language, Rhetoric and Persuasion Workshop

Quentin Coudray — 2025-01-29T13:36:41Z

Date : February, 7th, 2025
Location : Ecole Normale Supérieure (Institut Jean Nicod, 29 rue d'Ulm, RDC salle de réunion – Pavillon Jardin
Program :
10:00 - 10:30 : *Welcome*
10:30 - 11:15 : Anastasia Giannakidou - "Socratic Inquisitiveness"
11:15 - 12:00 : Philippe Huneman - "Communicating Science : A Tale
of Two Norms (or More)"
12:00 - 13:00 : *Lunch break*
13:00 - 13:45 : Salvador Mascarenhas - "Alternatives as Attentional
Mechanisms in the Language and Logic of Thought"
13:45 - (...)

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ENS Workshop in Philosophical Logic

Quentin Coudray — 2024-12-18T11:30:54Z

Location :
Salle U209, Bâtiment Jaurès, École normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris (or contact quentin.blomet@ens.psl.eu for a Zoom link)
Speakers :
Sabine Frittella (INSA - Université d'Orléans)
Francesca Poggiolesi (IHPST, CNRS - Université Paris 1)
Damian Szmuc (IIF-SADAF - CONICET)
Allard Tamminga (University of Greifswald)
Organizers : Quentin Blomet (IJN, ENS-PSL - University of Greifswald) and Paul Égré (IJN, ENS-PSL - IRL Crossing, CNRS)
This event is part of PLEXUS (Grant (...)

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