Pierre Jacob Author

Pierre Jacob is a French philosopher of mind and the cognitive sciences and is Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS. He has been a member of CREA (CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique) and of the Lyon Institute of Cognitive Science created by CNRS in 1998. From 2001 to 2010, he was Head of the Institut Jean Nicod at Ecole Normale Supérieure. He contributed to the creation of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (1991) and has been President-elect of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2001–2003). He is a member of Academia Europaea.