Visiting professors

2025-2026

Laurel Perkins (UCLA), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

2024-2025

Mélissa Gladstone (University of Liverpool), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

Tim Lewens (University of Cambridge), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Lecture series at the ENS:
- From Hidden Hand to Many Hands: The Case of Casabe
- Two direct roles for values in the heart of the sciences

 

 

 

Kristina Nielsen (John Hopkins University), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

2024

Holly Bridge (University of Oxford), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

2023

Patrick Barclay (Professor, University of Guelph), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

 

 

 

 

Clare Mac Cumhail (Durham University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

 DEC Colloquium, April 2023 - Ethics in Mind: Lessons from the Wartime Quartet 

 

 

 

Julia Hermida (National University of Hurlingham), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

DEC Colloquium, September 2023  - Cognitive development and childhood poverty: Correlational and interventional evidence in Argentina

 

 

 

Megha Sundara (UCLA), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

Lecture series at the ENS :
- The emergence of grammatical class in infancy (June 2023)
- What do infants know about permissible sound sequences in their native language? (July 2023)
- How infants discover morphological suffixes and use them to discover phonemes: Experimental and Computational findings (July 2023)

 

 

 

Sam Wilkinson (Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington ), invited by the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles 

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Norberto Grzywacz (Loyola University, USA)

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Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (Postponed)

2021

 

Wilson Geisler (University of Texas at Austin), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

Lecture series at the ENS:
- Finding and identifying objects in natural scenes
- Visual Search in Noise and Natural Backgrounds
- Measuring and Modeling Human Performance

 

 

 

 

 

2019

David Barner (University of California), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Larry Maloney (NYU, USA)

 

 

 

Alia Martin (University of Wellington)

 
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University of New York), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

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Jonathan Pillow (Princeton)

Conferences and symposium at the ENS: 
- Inferring the dynamics of learning from sensory decision-making behavior
- Unlocking single-trial dynamics in parietal cortex during decision-making

 

 

 

Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Lecture series: 
- Metaphysics: from Aristotle to Quine, and back again
- Explanation: the tripartite structure of dependence
- Transcendence: what must the world be like, to be explicable?

 

 

 

Morgan Sonderegger (MC-Gill University), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

2018

Diogo Almeida (New York University Abu Dhabi), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

Paul Howard Portner (Georgetown University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Lecture series at the ENS: Mood in semantics and pragmatics
- Verbal mood and sentence mood: concepts and current theories
- Comparison in compositional and discourse semantics
- De se interpretation and challenges to the unified analysis
- Control, reality status, and egophoricity

 

 

 

Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Lecture series at the ENS: Learning from Imagination
- The Skill of Imagination
- What Imagination Teaches
- Bridging the Divide: Imagining Across Different Experiential Perspectives
- Unconscious Imagination

 

 

 

Helen Lau (University of Maryland, College Park), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

Andrew B.Watson (Apple Inc, Cupertino, Californie, USA), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod

Lecture series at the ENS:
- The windows of visibility: Limits to human vision and their application to visual technology
- Computational models of early vision
- Applications of vision models to display engineering
- Advanced methods of perceptual testing