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François Recanati

François Recanati

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
11619
World Ranking
4613
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

François Recanati is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has a research profile spanning multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science. Their work incorporates significant contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their research covers a range of topics primarily focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, as well as Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit, 2024, L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit, 2023, L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Memory-based modes of presentation, 2024, Synthese
  • Understanding force cancellation, 2022, Inquiry
  • IEM explained, 2024, Philosophical Psychology

Recanati has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Inquiry
  • Synthese
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • Revue de Synthèse

Collaborations have included co-authorship with Dag Haug, Katrin Axel-Tober, Werner Frey, Hans-Martin Gärtner, and Martín Haspelmath.

Their book publications are distributed across publishers such as Gunter Narr Verlag eBooks and Collège de France eBooks, featuring titles like Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research (2023) and Langage, discours, pensée (2020).

Recognition for Recanati's contributions includes election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Direct Reference: From Language to Thought

    François Recanati

  • Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

    François Recanati

  • The Pragmatics of What is Said

    François Recanati

  • Perspectival Thought: A Plea for Moderate Relativism

    François Recanati

  • La transparence et l'énonciation : pour introduire à la pragmatique

    François Récanati

  • Direct Reference: From Language to Thought.

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  • Les énoncés performatifs : contribution à la pragmatique

    François Récanati

  • La logique des noms propres

    Pierre Jacob;Francois Recanati

  • The alleged priority of literal interpretation

    François Récanati

  • Embedded Implicatures

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  • Does Linguistic Communication Rest on Inference

    François Recanati

  • Oratio obliqua, oratio recta

    François Recanati;Peter Stockinger;Elisabeth de Pablo;Charles Biljetina

  • Unarticulated Constituents

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  • Oratio obliqua, oratio recta : an essay on metarepresentation

    Francois Recanati

  • On Defining Communicative Intentions

    François Recanati

  • Referential/attributive: A contextualist proposal

    Francois Recanati

  • Literalism and Contextualism: Some Varieties

    François Recanati

  • Domains of discourse

    François Recanati

  • Pragmatics and Semantics

    François Recanati

  • It is raining (somewhere)

    François Recanati

  • Meaning and force

    François Recanati

  • Can We Believe What We Do Not Understand

    François Recanati

  • Direct reference, meaning, and thought

    Francois Recanati

  • Contextualism and anti-contextualism in the philosophy of language

    François Recanati

  • Immunity to Error Through Misidentification : What It Is and Where It Comes From

    François Recanati

  • La polysémie contre le fixisme

    François Récanati

  • Mental Files in Flux

    François Recanati

  • Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances

    Cynthia Bernstein;François Recanati

  • Mental Files: Replies to my Critics

    François Recanati

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po

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