EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) - Paris

Graduate Student, Institut Jean Nicod

Thesis Title: The Situated Mind: an Essay in the Theory of Reference

Advisor: Jérôme Dokic

About

In the last few years, I have been working on a pragmatist account of the mind, based on the notion of practical knowledge. My project is to develop it in a number of interrelated domains:

1. Linguistic competence, the nature of rules and conventions, and the social dimension of linguistic interchanges, conceived as a species of cooperative activities.

2. Singular reference, in particular, the mastery of context-sensitive expressions such as indexicals.

3. Perceptual experience, its relation to categorization, and the epistemology of perception-judgment transitions.

4. The emergence of intentionality and meaning. The development of a naturalistic program that doesn't rely on the semantic notion of information.

Contact Information

Homepage: http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Echeverri

Address: Institut Jean Nicod
UMR 8129
Pavillon Jardin
Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, rue d'Ulm
F-75005 Paris
http://www.institutnicod.org

Telephone: (+33) 1 44 32 26 50