Jean Nicod Prize

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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 (CNRS) 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 (ENS) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). 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 of Jean Nicod Prize laureates from 1993 to the present day.

Year	Name	University	Lectures Title	Publication
1993	Jerry Fodor	Rutgers University	The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics	ISBN 0-262-56093-3
1994	Fred Dretske	Stanford University	Naturalizing the Mind	ISBN 0-262-54089-4
1995	Donald Davidson	UC Berkeley	n/a	n/a
1996	Hans Kamp	University of Stuttgart	Thinking and Talking about Things	n/a
1997	Jon Elster	Columbia University	Strong Feelings. Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior	ISBN 0-262-05056-0
1998	Susan Carey	New York University	The Origins of Concepts: Evolution vs Culture	n/a
1999	John Perry	Stanford University	Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness	ISBN 0-262-16199-0
2000	John Searle	UC Berkeley	Rationality in Action	ISBN 0-262-19463-5
2001	Daniel Dennett	Tufts University	Sweet Dreams. Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness	ISBN 0-262-04225-8
2002	Ruth Millikan	University of Connecticut	Varieties of Meaning	ISBN 0-262-13444-6
2003	Ray Jackendoff	Tufts University	Mental Structures. Language, Society, Consciousness	n/a
2004	Zenon Pylyshyn	Rutgers University	Things and Places. How the mind connects with the world	n/a
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	n/a
2007	Stephen Stich	Rutgers University	Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science: How the Cognitive Science Can Transform Traditional Debates	n/a