Jean Nicod Prize Explained

The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. The lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as part of its effort to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive science in France. The 1993 lectures marked the centenary of the birth of the French philosopher and logician Jean Nicod (1893–1924). Besides the CNRS, sponsors include the École Normale Supérieure and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. The Jean Nicod lecturer is expected to deliver at least four lectures on a topic of his or her choice, and subsequently to publish the set of lectures, or a monograph based on them in the Jean Nicod Lectures series (MIT Press/Bradford Books; F. Recanati editor).

List

List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates from 1993 to the present day:

(Source: Institut Jean Nicod)

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title	Video	Publication
1993	Jerry Fodor	Rutgers University	The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics	n/a
1994	Fred Dretske	Stanford University	Naturalizing the Mind	n/a
1995	Donald Davidson	University of California, Berkeley	The Sources of Objectivity	n/a	n/a
1996	Hans Kamp	University of Stuttgart	Thinking and Talking about Things	n/a	n/a
1997	Jon Elster	Columbia University	Strong Feelings. Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior	n/a
1998	Susan Carey	Harvard University	The Origins of Concepts: Evolution vs Culture	n/a	n/a
1999	John Perry	Stanford University	Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness	n/a
2000	John Searle	University of California, Berkeley	Rationality in Action	n/a
2001	Daniel Dennett	Tufts University	Sweet Dreams. Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness	n/a
2002	Ruth Millikan	University of Connecticut	Varieties of Meaning	n/a
2003	Ray Jackendoff	Tufts University	Mental Structures. Language, Society, Consciousness	http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/131/
2004	Zenon Pylyshyn	Rutgers University	Things and Places. How the mind connects with the world	http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/242/
2005	Gilbert Harman	Princeton University	The Problem of Induction and Statistical Learning Theory	n/a
2006	Michael Tomasello	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig	Origins of Human Communication	http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/686/
2007	Stephen Stich	Rutgers University	Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science: How the Cognitive Science Can Transform Traditional Debates	http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/974/	n/a
2008	Kim Sterelny	Victoria University of Wellington	The Fate of the Third Chimpanzee	n/a	n/a
2009	Elizabeth Spelke	Harvard University	Sources of Human Knowledge	n/a	n/a
2010	Tyler Burge	University of California, Los Angeles	Thresholds of Reason	n/a	n/a
2011	Gergely Csibra György Gergely	Central European University	Natural Pedagogy	[5]||-|2013|Ned Block^[1] |New York University| Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious|[6]
2014	Uta Frith and Chris Frith	University College London	What is innate and what is acquired in social cognition? and Mechanisms of social interaction	[7]||-|2015|David Chalmers|New York University|Spatial Illusions: From Mirrors to Virtual Reality|[8]
2016	Patrick Haggard	University College London	Volition, Agency, Responsibility: Cognitive Mechanisms of Human Action	[9]||-|2017|John Campbell|UC Berkeley|How language enters perception|[10]||-|2019|Martine Nida-Rümelin|University of Fribourg|Philosophical fundamentals for scientific studies of consciousness|[11]||-|2020|Leda Cosmides John Tooby|University of California Santa Barbara|The Adaptationist Revolution and the Transformation of the Cognitive Sciences|[12]||-|2021|Frances Egan|Rutgers University|Deflating Mental Representation|http://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/prix-jean-nicod/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod-2021/article/jean-nicod-lectures-and-prize-2021?lang=en||-|2022|Peter Godfrey-Smith|The University of Sydney|The Evolution of Experience|[13]||-|2023|Nancy Kanwisher |Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Functional Organization of the Human Brain|https://cognition.ens.fr/en/news/prix-jean-nicod-2023-awarded-nancy-kanwisher-massachusetts-institute-technology-17419#:~:text=17%20October%202023-,The%20Prix%20Jean%20Nicod%202023%20is%20awarded%20to%20Nancy%20Kanwisher,%2C%2012%20and%2014%2C%202023.<nowiki>[14]||-|2024|Christopher Peacocke|Columbia University|Understanding Music|https://cognition.ens.fr/en/news/jean-nicod-lectures-and-prize-2024-christopher-peacocke-understanding-music-17550#:~:text=The%20Prix%20Jean%20Nicod%202024,in%20May%20and%20June%202024.<nowiki>[15]||} See also Institut Jean Nicod List of awards named after people List of cognitive scientists List of social sciences awards List of philosophy awards List of psychology awards Philosophy of psychology External links Jean Nicod Prize & Lectures MIT Press: Jean Nicod Lectures Series

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prix et Conférences Jean Nicod 2013-2014 - INSTITUT JEAN NICOD . www.institutnicod.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131107022750/http://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod/conference-jean-nicod/article/prix-et-conferences-jean-nicod-1014?lang=fr . 2013-11-07.