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
François Recanati (born 1952) is a French analytic philosopher and research fellow at the College de France, and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Many of his works focus on the philosophy of language and mind.
Biography
He ...
(2010-2017) and Pierre Jacob (2002-2010). Created in 2002, its name commemorates the French philosopher,
epistemologist and logician
Jean Nicod
Jean George Pierre Nicod (1 June 1893, in France – 16 February 1924, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a French philosopher and logician, best known for his work on propositional logic and induction.
Biography
Nicod's main contribution to formal log ...
(1893-1924). The IJN is jointly run by the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS),
École normale supérieure (ENS) and
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), three French
research and
higher education institutions. Since 2007, the ENS hosts the IJN where it is affiliated with both the Département d'Etudes Cognitives (DEC), of which it is a founding member, and the Department of Philosophy.
Research carried out by its 33 permanent members (state 2016) has an
interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
profile. In the tradition of analytic philosophy, this research center develops researches at the interface between
cognitive science (mainly,
philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognition,
linguistics of cognition,
psychology),
social sciences (e.g. social epistemology, epistemic logic,
cognitive anthropology and sociology,
behavioural economics) and the
humanities. Internally the IJN is broadly organized in three research themes: (1) Language, (2) Action, Perception and Self-Consciousness and (3) Social Cognition. Apart from being a European venue for scientifically oriented analytic philosophy, it is engaged in fostering this kind of work through national and international collaborations.
As of 2016, the IJN hosts 15 Master, 60 PhD and 24 visiting students (as well as 15 Post-Docs) taught and supervised by its members.
The IJN was the first French institution (and among the first in Europe) to embrace an
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
policy with respect to its scientific output, providing full free access to its publications.
The IJN hosts the scholarly journal ''
Review of Philosophy and Psychology'', formerly known as ''European Review of Philosophy,'' (
Springer, 1994-), as well as the
Jean Nicod Lectures series (
MIT Press, 1995-). Every year, the IJN website provides information on the
Jean Nicod Prize, awarded by the French
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
to a leading
philosopher of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...
or philosophically oriented
cognitive scientist.
Notable People
Researchers based at the IJN have included several internationally renowned philosophers and cognitive scientists:
Scott Atran, , ,
Vincent Descombes,
Jérôme Dokic Jerome (c.347–420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian from Dalmatia.
Jerome may also refer to:
People Given name
* Jerome (given name), a masculine name of Greek origin, with a list of people so named
* Saint Jerome (disambiguat ...
,
Jon Elster,
Pascal Engel,
Uriah Kriegel,
Gloria Origgi
Gloria Origgi (born 1967) is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in Paris ( Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the theory of mind, epistemology and social sciences applied to new technology. She is the founder (in 2002) and director of the innovati ...
, ,
François Recanati
François Recanati (born 1952) is a French analytic philosopher and research fellow at the College de France, and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Many of his works focus on the philosophy of language and mind.
Biography
He ...
,
Philippe Schlenker,
Dan Sperber,
Benjamin Spector.
See also
*
Jean Nicod
Jean George Pierre Nicod (1 June 1893, in France – 16 February 1924, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a French philosopher and logician, best known for his work on propositional logic and induction.
Biography
Nicod's main contribution to formal log ...
*
Jean Nicod Prize
*
Cognitive science (
Consciousness
*
Linguistics (
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...
,
Pragmatics,
Semantics)
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
(
Philosophy of mind,
Philosophy of psychology)
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Social sciences (
Sociology,
Cognitive anthropology)
References
External links
Official websiteJean Nicod Online Papers - Open Access Repository
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Cognitive science research institutes
Social science institutes
Research institutes in France
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Neuroscience research centers in France