Title: “A Naturalist and Mutualist Theory of Morality”
Supervisor: Dan Sperber
Committee: Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS), Jon Elster (Columbia University, Collège de France), Jean Gayon (Paris I Sorbonne), Ruwen Ogien (CNRS) and Patrick Pharo (CNRS).
Visiting Student, University of Michigan, 2004
Program “Culture and Cognition” (L. Hirschfeld), Departments of psychology (R. Nesse), philosophy (A. Gibbard) and ecology (B. Low).
MA in Cognitive Sciences, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2003
Dissertation “What is an abstract word: Insights from evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology and cognitive anthropology”, supervised by Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Levi and Dan Sperber
MA in Social Sciences, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, 2002
Dissertation: “Demystifying mentalities: An Institutional Approach to the Differences between Chinese and Western Science before the Scientific Revolution”, supervised by Jean Baechler
MA in Philosophy, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, 2002
Dissertation: “Humanities facing Biology: How evolution and cognition are redefining philosophy and social sciences”, supervised by Daniel Andler
BA in Biology, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, 2002
BA in Social Sciences, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, 2001
BA in Philosophy, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000
Research assistant
2000 Neuroscience (perception of acceleration and gravity using EEG), LENA, Paris, France.
2001 Cognitive ethology (macaques foraging strategies), IPHC, Strasbourg, Paris.
2002-2003 Neuropsychology (Huntington desease), NPI, Paris, France.
2007 Culture and Cognition, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Social justice in Philosophy, Economics and Sociology, Aix-en-Provence, France
2005 Models in law, Berder, France
2004 Complex systems in social sciences, Saint-Raphaël, France
2002 Merit Scholarship awarded by the French Education Ministry.
2003 PhD grant awarded by Direction Générale de l’Armement.
2007 Post doctoral award of the Fyssen Foundation (declined).
« Hard neuroscience: Greg Egan, sciences cognitives et philosophie de l'esprit », École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Mars 2005.
« La vie comme phénomène universel : exobiologie, science-fiction, philosophie de la biologie », École Normale Supérieure, Décembre 2004, Paris.
« Sciences cognitives et Sciences Sociales », Atelier des étudiants en sciences cognitives (with Karim N’Diaye), Septembre 2003, Paris.
2006-2007 Groupe de travail en psychologie morale (with Pierre Jacob, Emmanuel Dupoux and Philippe Schlenker) Département d'Etudes Cognitives
2003-2006 Groupe de travail “Science-Fiction-Philosophie » (with Sylvie Allouche)
Journal of Cognition and Culture,
Human Behavior and Evolution,
Philosophy and Biology
Cognitive Science Annual Conference
Cognitio: Young researchers conference in cognitive science
Alphapsy's reader on Evolution, Cognition, Culture
Alphapsy’s Blog: From Human Sciences to Humanities
Science-Fiction-Philosophy
Salon du livre de sciences humaine. « Table ronde sur la morale », organized by Nicolas Journet (Sciences Humaines), with Ruwen Ogien (CNRS) and Michela Marzanno (CNRS), Février 2008.
Banque des Savoirs (with Eloise Pain Prado) « La notion de justice est-elle innée ? »
Baumard, N. « Une approche évolutionnaire, cognitive et culturelle de la morale ». Université Européenne d’été, Nantes, France, Juillet 2006.
Baumard, N. « La vie sur Europe est-elle possible ? », L’Astronomie, Novembre 2001.