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 ISBN 0-262-10119-X
2004 Zenon Pylyshyn Rutgers University Things and Places. How the mind connects with the world ISBN 0-262-16245-8
2005 Gilbert Harman Princeton University The Problem of Induction and Statistical Learning Theory ISBN 0-262-08360-4
2006 Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Origins of Human Communication ISBN 0-262-20177-1
2007 Stephen Stich Rutgers University Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science: How the Cognitive Science Can Transform Traditional Debates n/a
2008 Kim Sterelny Victoria University of Wellington The Fate of the Third Chimpazee n/a

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