Romain Bourdoncle philosophy

About

My research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, language, and cognitive science. Since 2023, I have been working as a Research Assistant at the CSEN with the GT3 working group at Collège de France - PSL. Under the guidance of Emmanuel Sander, we are developping new resources to enhance mathematics education in France. Further details on our initiatives will be shared in due course!

I obtained my PhD in December 2022 from the Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure in Paris. My supervisors were François Recanati and Michael Murez. In my thesis, I have investigated how we share representations in linguistic communication. My hypothesis is that communication does not involve the replication of thought from speaker to hearer, but rather a form of coordination of thoughts. My goal has been to characterize and explain interpersonal coordination so construed.

Besides coordination in linguistic communication, I am interested in:

inner speech;
human-machine semantic interactions.

Papers

Shareability of Thought and Frege’s Constraint: A Reply to Onofri
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (2022)
Romain Bourdoncle
abstract | preprint | doi | cite

Onofri [Onofri, A. 2018. ‘The Publicity of Thought.’ Philosophical Quarterly 68 (272): 521–541.] proposes an individuation criterion for thoughts that purports to satisfy both shareability (the notion that different thinkers, or a single thinker at different times, can and generally do think type-identical thoughts) and Frege's constraint (according to which two thoughts are different if it is possible for a rational subject to endorse one while rejecting the other). I argue that his proposal fails to satisfy Frege's constraint. Then I propose a modification to Onofri's proposal to fix the problem.

Samethinking
PhD Dissertation, École Normale Supérieure (2022)
Romain Bourdoncle
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Teaching

As instructor:

Computer science and philosophy, fall 2021, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Course description here (in French).
Language and thought, fall 2019, Université PSL. Course material here.

As teaching assistant:

Introduction to the philosophy of mind & cognitive science, 2017-2019, École Normale Supérieure.

Contact

Feel free to reach out.

GT3 | CSEN | Collège de France
11 Pl. Marcelin Berthelot
75005 Paris, France

romain [dot] bourdoncle [at] psl [dot] eu

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4056-3265

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