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Joëlle Proust
Senior Researcher at C.N.R.S.
Institut Nicod
Institut Nicod
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Joelle Proust studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Provence. A researcher at CNRS since 1976, she worked on the history and the philosophy of logic. Her first book, Questions of form (Fayard, 1986, Minnesota Press, 1989) deals with the status of analytic propositions from Kant to Carnap. It received the bronze medal of CNRS.
From then on, her main interest is in the philosophy of mind: on intentionality and animal cognition (Comment l'Esprit vient aux Bêtes, Paris, Gallimard, 1997, Les Animaux Pensent-ils? Paris, Fayard, 2003), on the kind of awareness involved in agency and in personal identity and in its perturbations in schizophrenia and autism.
She has codirected several scientific projects on agency in schizophrenia, and now studies autism as an executive disorder. She co-edited several collective books and journal issues on these topics and others, including a Vocabulaire de Sciences Cognitives.
She presently works at the Institut Jean-Nicod as a director of research. She prepares a book in the philosophy of action, that will draw on results from neuroscience, developmental psychology, neuropsychology and primatology.
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