François Recanati

Agrégé de philosophie, docteur ès lettres, François Recanati joined the CNRS in 1979 after studies in Paris and a post-doctorate in Oxford. He worked his way up through the ranks, taking on numerous responsibilities (including director of the Institut Jean-Nicod, 2009-2018), before joining the Collège de France, where he was elected in 2018. Cumulative director of studies at EHESS (2008-2018), professorial fellow at the University of St Andrews (2007-2013), he has been a visiting professor at numerous foreign universities (including Berkeley, Geneva and Harvard), and has been invited to give masterclasses and lecture series on several continents. He was president of the European Society of Analytical Philosophy (1990-1993) and the philosophy panel of theEuropean Reference Index for the Humanities (ESF, 2006-2009), and has directed, or still directs, several European research projects, including Mindreading and the Emergence of Human Communication (ESF, 2002-2006), Context, Content and Compositionality (ERC, 2009-2013), and Mental Files: New Foundations (ERC, 2024-2029). A member of the Academia Europaea and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University, he was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal (2014), and, in 2024, the Gay Lussac -  HumboldtLifetime Achievement Award.