Jean Nicod Prize

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The Jean Nicod Prize (French Prix ​​Jean Nicod ) has been awarded annually in Paris since 1993 for exceptional achievements in the field of philosophy of mind or cognitive science . The prize was awarded with the aim of strengthening the exchange between philosophy and cognitive science in France . The Nicod Prize is now one of the most important international awards in the research area described.

The prize is awarded by the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and supported by the École normal supérieure (ENS) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). It is named after the French philosopher Jean Nicod (1893–1924). The selection committee is composed of the most famous French researchers in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, such as Jean-Pierre Changeux and Pierre Jacob .

The award is usually associated with a lecture by the recipient and is published as a monograph in the Jean Nicod Lectures series by MIT Press .

List of Jean Nicod Prize winners

year Surname university Lecture title publication
1993 Jerry Fodor Rutgers University The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics ISBN 0262560933
1994 Fred Dretske Stanford University Naturalizing the Mind ISBN 0262540894
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 0262194635
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 Brandeis 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 978-0-262-16245-6
2005 Gilbert Harman Princeton University The Problem of Induction and Statistical Learning Theory ISBN 978-0-262-08360-7
2006 Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 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
2009 Elizabeth Spelke Harvard University Sources of Human Knowledge n / A
2010 Tyler Burge University of California, Los Angeles Thresholds of Reason n / A
2011 Gergely Csibra ,
György Gergely 		Central European University , Budapest Natural Pedagogy
2013 Ned Block New York University Conscious, unconscious, preconscious
2014 Uta Frith
Chris Frith 		University College London What Makes Us Social?
2015 David Chalmers New York University Spatial Experience and Virtual Reality
2016 Patrick Haggard University College London Volition, Agency, Responsibility: Cognitive Mechanisms of Human Action
2017 John Campbell University of California, Berkeley How Language Enters Perception
2019 Martine Nida-Rümelin University of Freiburg Philosophical fundamentals for scientific studies of consciousness

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