Claudine Tiercelin is a French philosopher, working on

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

and

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultim ...

. She is professor of philosophy at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

, after having been professor at the

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Biography

Claudine Tiercelin was born in

Brest, France Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French ...

1952. When she was 9, her father, a soldier, died in the

First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vi ...

. As a result, she was eligible for a scholarship which allowed her to study at the

Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle The Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, usually referred to as the Lycée or the French Lycée, is a French co-educational primary and secondary independent day school, situated in South Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and ...

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. In 1972 she joined the

École normale supérieure de jeunes filles The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as tea ...

.
Biography of Claudine Tiercelin on the site college-de-france.fr In 1976 she received her

Agrégation In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''profe ...

in philosophy. During this time she attended first the courses of Althusser and

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at the

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, before developing a passion for those of

Jules Vuillemin Jules Vuillemin (; ; 15 February 1920 – 16 January 2001) was a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the prestigious Collège de France, in Paris, from 1962 to 1990, succeeding Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Professor emeritu ...

and

Jacques Bouveresse Jacques Bouveresse (; 20 August 1940 – 9 May 2021) was a French philosopher who wrote on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy ...

, who would become her thesis advisor. She received a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in sociology under the direction of

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

on the subject « Les Usages sociaux des sciences sociales dans l'entreprise » (The social functions of the social sciences in business). In 1982 she defended her third cycle doctorate on

Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ...

's philosophy of knowledge and language, followed by a state doctorate on Peirce's treatment of the

problem of universals The problem of universals is an ancient question from metaphysics that has inspired a range of philosophical topics and disputes: Should the properties an object has in common with other objects, such as color and shape, be considered to exist be ...

. From 2000 to 2003, she was the first female president of the jury des agrégations de philosophie. She is a researcher at the

Institut Jean Nicod The Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) is an interdisciplinary research center based in Paris, France. Its current director is the philosopher (2017-), preceded by famous philosopher François Recanati (2010-2017) and Pierre Jacob (2002-2010). Created ...

,Page personnelle de Claudine Tiercelin sur le site de l'Institut Jean Nicod
/ref> and has been a senior member of the

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. She has taught

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and

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philosophy at several universities in France (Rouen, Paris 1, Tours, Paris 12) and overseas, notably at

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in New York where she was the C. S. Peirce Professor of Philosophy. She is currently vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In December 2010, she took up the Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge, marking the first chair of metaphysics in the history of the

. In 2011, she was asked to carry out an investigation into academic ethics. On 4 December 2017, she was elected member of the

Académie des sciences morales et politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

(

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), to the position previously occupied by Jean Mesnard (1921-2016).

Bibliography

Books

* 1993: ''La Pensée-signe'', Éd. Jacqueline Chambon. * 1993: ''Peirce et le pragmatisme'', PUF. * 2002: ''Hilary Putnam, l'héritage pragmatiste'', PUF. * 2005: ''Le doute en question : Parades pragmatistes au défi sceptique'', Éditions de l'Éclat. * 2011: ''Le Ciment des choses'', Les Éditions d'Ithaque.

Edited volumes

* (with Philippe de Rouilhan) ''Ecrits posthumes'' de

Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic ph ...

(edition and translation of ''Nachlass''). Nîmes, Editions J. Chambon, 1999 * (with Pierre Thibaud) ''Œuvres philosophiques'',

. Paris, Editions du Cerf. :Œuvres 1 Pragmatisme et Pragmaticisme, 2002. :Œuvres 2 Pragmatisme et Sciences Normatives, 2003. :Œuvres 3 Ecrits Logiques, 2006.

Translations

* ''Questions Mortelles'',

Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, ...

, (with

Pascal Engel Pascal Engel (; born 1954) is a French philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of logic. He was a professor of philosophy of logic at the Sorbonne. He currently works at the University ...

) (Mortal Questions), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1983. * ''Représentation et Réalité'', Hilary Putnam, (Representation and Reality), Paris, Gallimard, 1990. * ''Le réalisme à visage humain'', Hilary Putnam, (Realism with a Human Face), Paris, Le Seuil, 1992. * ''Le raisonnement et la logique des choses'',

C. S. Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...

(with C. Chauviré & P.Thibaud) (Reasoning and the Logic of Things), Paris, Editions du Cerf, 1995. * ''La redécouverte de l'esprit'', John Searle, (The Rediscovery of Mind), Paris, Gallimard, 1995. * ''La construction de la réalité sociale'', John Searle, (The construction of social reality), Paris, Gallimard, 1998. * ''Le mystère de la conscience'', John Searle, (The mystery of consciousness), Paris, Editions Odile Jacob, 1999. * «La logique dans les mathématiques », G. Frege (with F. Nef), Frege, ''Ecrits posthumes'', ed. by Ph. de Rouilhan & C. Tiercelin, Nîmes, Editions J. Chambon, 1999. * ''Le sentiment même de soi'', A. Damasio (with C. Larsonneur) (The Feeling of What Happens), Paris, Editions O. Jacob, 1999. * C.S. Peirce, ''Pragmatisme et pragmaticisme'', volume 1 of Œuvres de C.S. Peirce, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2002. * ''L’esprit, ça ne marche pas comme ça (portée et limites de la psychologie computationnelle)'',

Jerry Fodor Jerry Alan Fodor (; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the modul ...

, (The mind doesn't work that way), Paris, Editions O. Jacob, 2003. * C.S. Peirce, ''Pragmatisme et sciences normatives'' (with P. Thibaud & J.-P. Cometti), volume 2 of Œuvres de C.S. Peirce, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2003. * C.S. Peirce, ''Ecrits Logiques'' (with P. Thibaud & J.-P. Cometti), volume 3 of Œuvres de C.S. Peirce, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2006. * ''L’articulation des raisons'',

Robert Brandom Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950) is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his academic output manifests both sys ...

(with J.-P. Cometti), (Articulating Reasons), Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2009.

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