Curriculum Vitae
Frédérique de Vignemont
CNRS Senior Researcher (DR1)
Deputy Director Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris
Senior lecturer, NYU/Paris
Secretary of the Jean Nicod Prize
Executive editor Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Open MIT Encyclopedia in cognitive science
Contact: frederique.de.vignemont@ens.fr
Education
2014 Habilitation (HDR). Ecole Normale Supérieure. Thesis: Mind the body.
2002 PhD in Philosophy. Institut Jean-Nicod (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). Supervised by Pierre Jacob . With honours. Thesis: Who’s who? Self, sense of agency, sense of ownership
1998 Master in Cognitive Science. CREA (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). Supervised by Pierre Jacob. With honours. Thesis: The challenge of blindsight for theories of consciousness
Academic experience and research
Spring 2017 Visiting research fellow at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York
Spring 2013 Visiting Professor, Graduate Center, Department of Philosophy, CUNY, New York
2009-2011 CNRS Researcher at Transitions, CNRS-NYU (New York)
2005-2007 CNRS Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Science (Lyon)
2003-2005 Post-doc fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), with Pr. Patrick Haggard.
2002-2003 Post-doc fellow at the philosophy department, New York University, with Pr. Ned Block.
2001-2002 Research Assistant for Pr. Alvin Goldman (University of Arizona)
Acting instructor (ATER) in philosophy of science and ethics (University Lyon I)
1999-2001 Visiting fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science (Lyon), supervised by Pr. Marc Jeannerod.
Fall 2000 Acting instructor in philosophy of mind (University Lyon III)
Spring 2000 Visiting scholar at the philosophy department, University of Arizona.
Fellowships and Grants
2020 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, University of Glasgow (cancelled because of Covid)
2019 French scholar lecture series award, Vancouver
2017 Neuroscience and philosophy fellowship, Italian Academy, Columbia University
2016-2020 ANR Research grant on the sense of joint agency (PI: Elisabeth Pacherie)
2016-2020 ANR Research grant on tool use (PI: Alessandro Farnè)
2015 Young Mind&Brain Prize
2013-2015 Research grant from the Templeton Foundation on “The value of suffering” (PIs:D. Bain & M. Brady)
2012-2013 Research grant from the Templeton Foundation on “The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals” (PIs: David Bain and Michael Brady)
2012-2015 ANR Research grant on Spatial representations (PI: Malika Auvray)
2009-2012 ANR Research grant on empathy and social cognition (PI: Emmanuel Dupoux)
2007-2010 ANR Research grant on the feeling of knowing and delusions (PI: Elisabeth Pacherie)
2006-2009 ANR Research grant on body representation (PI: Frédérique de Vignemont)
2005-2007 British Academy Grant on tactile perception (PIs: P. Haggard and F. de Vignemont)
2003-2005 Marie Curie Fellowship
2002-2003 Fulbright Fellowship
1998-2001 PhD Fellowship of the French Ministry of Research
Teaching
Regular teaching
Graduate seminar “Philosophy of mind”, with V. Giardino, Master in cognitive science
Graduate seminar “Self-consciousness”, with J. Dokic & E. Pacherie, Master in contemporary philosophy
Undergraduate Course “Mind and machines”, NYU Paris
Summer schools
Dec 2017 International winter school The neuroscience of Consciousness, CIFAR, Montebello, Canada
July 2014 International Summer School in Affective Sciences, Geneva.
Fall 2013 Summer school Social cognition, Humboldt University, Berlin
June 2013 Summer school Embodied intersubjectivity, Aegina, Greece.
Spring 2013 Graduate seminar “Philosophy of mind – Minding the body”, Graduate Centre, CUNY
Fall 2007 Autumn school of neuroscience, Oxford
Meeting organization
Conferences
2012 Conference in honor of Dan Sperber, IJN
2004 Graduate students conference, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon
2002 Meeting of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), ISC, Lyon
Workshops
2018 Pain and threat, IJN, Paris.
2017 Peripersonal experiences, IJN, Paris.
2016 Bodily sensations and bodily awareness, IEA, Paris
2015 The body and the self, revisited, Copenhagen
Space and functionalism, IJN, Paris
2014 Pain and suffering, IJN, Paris
Ned Block’s theory of consciousness, IJN, Paris
2012 Pain and affective touch, New Forest, UK
2010 Perception, Action, and the Self, NYU
Challenges for immunity to error through misidentification? NYU
Perception and multimodality, NYU
The extended mind, NYU
2008 The Rubber hand illusion, IJN
2007 Social Cognition, IJN
2006 Body representation and multimodal interaction, Paris V
Symposiums
2022 Satellite event "Peripersonal space: The world at our fingertips", ESCOP, Lille
2014 Invited symposium ‘Bodily awareness’ ESPP, Noto, Sicily
2004 Symposium The sense of touch, ESPP, Barcelona
Scientific committee
2019 Euro CogSci, Bochum
2017 European Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Exeter
2015 ASSC conference in Paris
2012 ASSC conference in Sussex
Jean Nicod lectures
2024 Christopher Peacocke
2023 Nancy Kanwisher
2022 Peter Godfrey-Smith
2021 Frances Egan (Jean Nicod prize 2021)
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (Jean Nicod prize 2020)
2019 Martine Nida-Rumelin
2017 John Campbell (Berkeley)
2016 Patrick Haggard
2015 David Chalmers
2014 Ned Block (Jean Nicod prize 2014)
Chris and Uta Frith (Jean Nicod prize 2013)
Summer schools
2009 European summer school (CNRS-COST) Self and Others in Cargese (Corsica, France).
2007 European summer school (CNRS-COST) Consciousness and Action in Cargese (Corsica, France)
Association and committee memberships
Executive editor Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Open MIT Encyclopedia in cognitive science
Member of the Editorial Board Mind and language
European Journal of Philosophy
Neuroscience of consciousness.
Executive member of the Jean Nicod Prize
Coordinator of the ENS-NYU exchange program
Deputy director of the SOPHA (Société de philosophie analytique de langue française)
Member of the Body representation steering committee
2010-2016 ASSC executive committee member (Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness)
2010 SSHRC grant program committee member (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2007-2011 French representative for the European COST action Consciousness
Public outreach
Public exhibition
2024 Women Pionneers in Philosophy of mind. ENS
2019 Science exhibition The body and the self, Palais de la Découverte, Paris
Public roundtable
2023 The present and future of AI. NYU Paris
AI and machine learning. NYU European Alumni Conference
Ethique et intégrité scientifique : Implications de l’IA dans le domaine de la recherche scientifique . ENS
Podcast
2023 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cqB0fP469XikcaW6Oc7uv?si=11c8e8a395044622
Popular scientific work
2022 de Vignemont, F. Désenchanter le corps. Odile Jacob.
2021 de Vignemont, F. Wie nah ist zu nah? Die Zeit – 15/04/2021
2020 de Vignemont, F. and Klein, C. Keeping the world at distance. Aeon.
2014 de Vignemont, F. Le rôle de l’empathie pour le sens moral. Les Forums Lundbeck, 70-83
2013 de Vignemont, F. Le laboratoire de l’esprit. Cerveau et psycho, 59, 70-74
2012 de Vignemont, F. Marc Jeannerod: un homme d’action. Cerveau et psycho, 54, 75-81.
de Vignemont, F. Culpabilité et sens moral. Cerveau et psycho, 53, 28-29.
de Vignemont, F. L’espace du corps propre, Cerveau et psycho, 52, 71-77
de Vignemont, F. Dans l’intimité de l’esprit. Cerveau et psycho, 51, 76-77
de Vignemont, F. L’homme sous influence. Cerveau et psycho, 50, 48-53.
2011 de Vignemont, F. L’empathie: comment ? quand ? qui ? pourquoi ? Le journal des psychologues.
2010 de Vignemont, F. and Jacob, P. Partager la douleur d’autrui. Cerveau et psycho, 38.
de Vignemont, F. Le sorprese dell’empatia: “Ecco come il dolore altrui diventa il mio”. La Stampa, 24 July 2010