Institut Jean Nicod

The IJN is jointly run by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure (ENS) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), three French research and higher education institutions.

Since 2007, the ENS hosts the IJN where it is affiliated with both the Département d'Etudes Cognitives (DEC), of which it is a founding member, and the Department of Philosophy.

Internally the IJN is broadly organized in three research themes: (1) Language, (2) Action, Perception and Self-Consciousness and (3) Social Cognition.

Apart from being a European venue for scientifically oriented analytic philosophy, it is engaged in fostering this kind of work through national and international collaborations.

Researchers based at the IJN have included several internationally renowned philosophers and cognitive scientists: Scott Atran, Nicolas Baumard, Alban Bouvier [fr], Roberto Casati [it], Vincent Descombes, Jérôme Dokic, Jon Elster, Pascal Engel, Uriah Kriegel, Hugo Mercier, Daniel Nettle, Gloria Origgi, Joëlle Proust, François Recanati, Philippe Schlenker, Dan Sperber, Benjamin Spector, Isidora Stojanovic, Mouhamadou El Hady Ba, Coralie Chevallier.