2020- Director of Research and Academics, School of Collective Intelligence, UM6P, Morocco
2020- Professor of Philosophy and Psychology (Assistant), School of Collective Intelligence, UM6P, Morocco
2018-20: Research Fellow, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques, ENS, Paris.
2016-17: Research Scientist, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2014-16: Research Fellow, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2013-14: Braudel Fellow, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supèrieure, Paris
2011-13: Teaching and Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
2009-11: Instructor, University of Toronto
Education
2011: PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto . Dissertation Title: The Public Dimension of Meaning
2003: MA, Philosophy, University College Dublin.
2000: BA, Music and Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Visiting Positions:
2008: Visiting Graduate Student, RSSS, Australian National University, School of Philosophy, July-August
2003-04: Visiting Graduate Student, University of California Berkeley, Department of Philosophy
Publications (bold = first or final author)
2024:
Helming, K.A., O'Madagain, C. Tomasello, M., Three and Five Year Old Children Know they Might be Wrong. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (in press).
O'Madagain, C. Pointing, Demonstratives, and Indexicals. In Mark Krause, David Leavens and Kim Bard, Pointing: Culture, Development, and Evolution. Cambridge University Press (in press).
O'Madagain, C. Reasoning. In Andonovski (ed). Things that Minds Do. Palgrave Macmillan (in press).
Egre, P and O'Madagain, C. On the Utility of Empty Concepts. In Manuel Gustavo Isaac and Kevin Sharp (eds). New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering. Synthese Library (in press).
O'Madagain, C. Ways of Reasoning in Humans and Other Animals. In Why and How We Give and Ask for Reasons: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, eds P. Stovall and L. Koren., Oxford University Press (in press).
Annllo, H. et al. (2024) Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcement-and description-based economic preferences worldwide. Nature Human Behavior.
2022:
O’Madagain, C. Schmidt, M., Call, J and Tomasello, M. (2022) Great Apes and Human Children Rationally Monitor Their Decisions (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
Van Bavel et al (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications.
Pavlovic et al (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus.
2021:
Engelmann, J. M. ; Völter, C. J. ; O'Madagain, C ; Proft, M ; Haun, D. B. M. ; Rakoczy, H. ; Herrmann, E. (2021). Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities. Current Biology. Volume 31 Issue 20 Pages R1377-R1378.
O'Madagain C. and Tomasello. M. Shared Intentionality, Reason-giving, and Cumulative Culture (2021). In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 13 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0320
2020:
Walmsley, J. and O’Madagain, C. (2020) The Worst Motive Fallacy. Psychological Science
O’Madagain, C. (2020) This is a Paper about Demonstratives. Philosophia. 49, pages 745–764 (2021)
O'Madagain, C. (2020) Epistemic Injustice at the Conceptual Level: Are We Entitled to Our Own Concepts?. Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12, 64-80.
2019:
Koymen, B. O’Madagain, C. Domberg, A. and Tomasello, M (2019). Young children's ability to produce valid and relevant arguments. Child Development, May/June 2020, V. 91 (3), pp. 685-693.
O’Madagain, C. and Tomasello, M. (2019) Joint Attention to Mental Contents and the Social Origin of Reasoning. Synthese. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007
O’Madagain, C., Kachel, G. and Strickland, B (2019). Reply to Heschl and Luef. Science Advances.
O’Madagain, C., Kachel, G. and Strickland, B (2019). The Origin of Pointing: Evidence for the Touch Hypothesis. Science Advances10 Jul 2019: Vol. 5, no. 7, eaav2558 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2558
Égré, P. and O'Madagain, C. (2019). Concept Utility. The Journal of Philosophy. V 116 (10), October 2019, pp.525-554. pdf
O’Madagain, C. (2019). Is Reasoning Culturally Transmitted? Teorema. XXXVIII/1, ISNN 0210-1602; pp.107-120
2018:
O’Madagain, C. (2018). Outsourcing Concepts: Deference, the Extended Mind, and Expanding our Epistemic Capacity. In Carter, Palermos, Clark, Pritchard and Kallestrup (eds). Socially Extended Knowledge, Oxford University Press.
2015:
O’Madagain, C. (2015). Davidson and Husserl on the Social Origin of our Concept of Objectivity. In Discovering the ‘We’: The Phenomenology of Sociality, ed. Dermot Moran and Thomas Szanto, Routledge.
2014:
O’Madagain, C. (2014). When Shapes and Sounds become Utterances: Indexicals and the Metaphysics of Semantic Tokens. Thought, 3(1): 71-79.
O’Madagain, C. (2014). Can Groups have Concepts? Semantics for Collective Intentions. Philosophical Issues, 24(1): 347–363.
2012:
O’Madagain, C (2012). Group Agents: Persons, Mobs or Zombies? International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 20:2: 271-287.
Enyclopedia entries, reviews, and conference proceedings:
2018:
O’Madagain C. (2018) Experience Projection. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham.
2014:
O’Madagain, C. (2014) Mind and Machine, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 22(2): 291-295.
2013:
O’Madagain, C. (2013). Intentionality. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, University of Tennessee at Martin. link
2007:
O’Madagain, C. (2007). Is There an Intellectual Intuition in Kant’s Opus Postumum?, in Proceedings of the 10th International Kant Congress, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2007.
In progress:
Yahya Berrada, Emile Servan Schreiber, Haun, D. O’Madagain, C. The Wisdom of the Crowd Fallacy: People defer to the crowd when they shouldn't, data collection in progress, preliminary results here: poster
O'Madagain, C. Chairi, I, Luef, E. Gorilla Vocalizations bear hallmarks of human music. (analysis underway)
O'Madagain, C. Bai, D. Peperkamp, S. and Strickland, B. It's Easier to Learn Irregular Grammar for Animals than Other Categories (data analysis underway)
Selected Talks
How Language Changes Collaboration. University of Oslo, June 2024.
Ways of Reasoning in Humans and Other Animals, University College London, Dec 2023
Concept Utility, Central European University, Vienna May 25 2023
Ways of Reasoning in Humans and Other Animals, ARED workshop on reasoning, Vienna, May 24 2023
Ways of Reasoning in Humans and Other Animals, Stanford Developmental Psychology dept, Nov 2022
Apes and Children Rationally Monitor Their Decisions at the CogSci 2022, Toronto July 27 2022
Shared Intentionality, Reason-giving, and Cumulative Culture (with Michael Tomasello), Royal Society, London, UK March 2022
When Apes and Children Disagree, Swedish Cognitive Science Society, December 10, 2021
When Apes and Children Disagree, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives Lunchtime Talks, ENS Paris, May 28 2019
The Ontogeny of Objectivity, ENS Lyons, February 2019
The Ontogeny of Objectivity, University of Warwick, March 2019
Touch as the Origin of Pointing, ISLE, Zurich, March 2019
The Ontogeny of Objectivity, Budapest Developmental Psychology Department, May 2018
Concept Utility, Formal Epistemology Workshop, Toronto 2018
Concept Utility, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Baltimore 2018
Touch as the Origin of Pointing. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris 2018
Joint Attention to Mental Content and the Foundations of Collaborative Reasoning. ESPP, St. Andrews, August 2016
Ten Million People Can't be Wrong? What People Really think of Majorities (poster) ESPP, St. Andrews, August 2016
Joint Attention to Mental Content and the Foundations of Collaborative Reasoning. Conference in Honor of Raimo Tuomela, Rijeka Croatia May 24 2016
Commentary on Tomasello's 'A Natural History of Human Morality' and Pettit's 'The Birth of Ethics', Jacobs Foundation Workshop, Marbach Castle, March 2016
The Origin of Pointing and the Laterality Debate. Meeting of the Royal Society, London, April 27 2016
The Roots of Reference: Three Studies on the Origin of Pointing. Annual Ratio Conference, Reading, UK, April 24 2016
Joint Attention to Mental Content and the Foundations of Collaborative Reasoning. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmenal and Comparative Psycology, Feb 112016
Joint Attention to Mental Content and the Foundations of Collaborative Reasoning; University of Sussex, Philosophy Colloquium, October 2nd 2015
Is Pointing Ritualized Touch? European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Tartu, Estonia, July 14 2015
This: a Token Contextual Account of Demonstratives; European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Tartu, Estonia, July 14 2015
Pointing, Demonstratives, and Indexicals: a Semantic and Developmental Hypothesis; Friedrich Schiller Universitat, Jena, Linguistics Group, May 19
Is Pointing Ritualized Touch? (talk); Max Planck Institute for Developmental Psychology, May 3 2015
Pointing, Demonstratives, and Indexicals: a Semantic and Developmental Hypothesis; UC Davis Dept of Philosophy, April 5, 2015
Pointing, Demonstratives, and Indexicals: a Semantic and Developmental Hypothesis; Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, April 2, 2015
Is Pointing Ritualized Touch? (poster) Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia March 19, 2015
Language and the Concept of Objectivity, with a response by John Hyman. CRNAP Workshop, Oxford October 18th 2014
Is Linguistic Meaning fixed by Collective Action? Collective Intentionality IX, Bloomington Indiana, September 14 2014
Whose words are Best? Deference and Concept Formation (with Paul Egre), CRNAP worshop, Oxford, June 21, 2014
Whose words are Best? Deference and Concept Formation (with Paul Egre), Workshop on Collective Intentionality, University College Dublin, June 18th, 2014
Deferring to Groups, Workshop on Deference, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, March 2014
Thinking about Statues, Thinking about Stones, PaCS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Feb 10 2014
Pointing, Demonstratives, and Indexicals, Workshop on Language, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris October 2013
Beyond Intentions and Conventions: Shared Beliefs and Linguistic Meaning", Investigating Semantics, Empirical and Philosophical Approaches, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, October 12 2013
Semantics for Groups, University College Cork, August 28th, 2013
Pointing and Indexicals, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, June 2013
Does Language Extend our Conceptual Resources, First Workshop on Extended Knowledge, University of Edinburgh, June 10-11, 2013
Can Groups have Concepts, Queen's University Belfast, March 21st 2013
Can Groups have Concepts, University College Cork Philosophy Week Invited Speaker, February 21 2013
Does Linguistic Deference Make Us Smarter, Collective Intentionality VIII, Manchester University, August 28-31 2012
A Sellarsian Hypothesis about Language and the Theory-Theory, Sellars Centenary Conference, Dublin, June 2012
Group Intentions and the Zombie Problem, Workshop on Personal and Shared Intentions, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, May 2012
Conditional Content for Concepts, Irish Philosophical Society, Drogheda, April 2012
Awards
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Research Fellowship, 2018-2020
Max Planck Institute Research Fellowship, 2014-2017
Marie Curie Cofund Fellowship 2013, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Teaching and Research Fellowship, 2011-2013, University College Dublin
Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Toronto, 2010-2011
University of Toronto Fellowship 2004-2009
Hacking Travel Grant 2008
Cheesborough Travel Grant 2005, 2006, 2007
George Paxton Young Memorial Prize, 2005, 2006, 2007
Fulbright Studentship, 2003-2004 (declined due to scheduling)
Magennis Prize, University College Dublin, 2003
Teaching
Supervision:
Talib el Aissatti (Superrvisor: Phd, UM6P, 2026)
Yahya Berrada (Supervisor, PhD, UM6P, 2027)
Gavivian Kufoalor (Supervisor, PhD, UM6P, 2027)
Ghizlane Goubraim (Supervisor, MA, UM6P, 2024)
Amr Larouz (Supervisor, MA, UM6P, 2022)
Lea Bonheim (Supervisor: MSc UCD 2011)
Craig Burgess (Supervisor: MA UCD 2012)
Master Teaching:
Cognitive Science 1 (Master in Collective Intelligence, SCI, UM6P, 2020-)
Cognitive Science 3 (Master in Collective Intelligence, SCI, UM6P, 2020-)
Seminar in Philosophy of Mind (UCD, Philosophy and Cognitive Science cross listed)
Seminar in Analytic Philosophy: Language and Thought (UCD 2011 Philosophy)
Undergraduate Teaching:
Spring 2013: Knowledge and Reality (200 level - University College Dublin)
Spring 2012: Knowledge and Reality (200 level, co-taught with Jim O'Shea - University College Dublin)
Summer 2011: Issues in Philosophy of Mind: Externalism and the Extended Mind (300 level, University Toronto)
Spring 2011: Biomedical Ethics (200 level, University of Toronto)
Summer 2010: Philosophy of Sexuality (200 level, University of Toronto)
Summer 2009: Issues in Philosophy of Mind: Intentionality (300 level, University of Toronto)
Service
Reviewer for:
Science; The Journal of Child Language, Synthese; Review of Philosophy and Psychology; International Journal of Philosophical Studies; Dialectica; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Philosophical Psychology and many other journals.
References
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Duke University
Philip Pettit, Princeton University
Paul Egre, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Sonia Sedivy, University of Toronto
Bill Seager, University of Toronto
Diana Raffman, University of Toronto