Benjamin Spector - Curriculum Vitae#
CURRENT POSITIONS
- Since 2015 Directeur de recherche [Senior Scientist], CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’Etudes Cognitives of Ecole Normale Supérieure
- Since 2015 Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département d’Etudes Cognitives
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
- 2008 - 2015 Chargé de recherche [Research Fellow]], CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’Etudes Cognitives of Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 2006 - 2008 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, USA
- 2003 - 2006 Lecturer in Linguistics, Département d’études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, France
EDUCATION
- 2006 PhD in linguistics - Department of Linguistics - University of Paris 7 Advisor: Alain Rouveret
- 2000 Diplôme d’études approfondies in philosophy (equivalent to Master) - Department of Philosophy - University of Paris 1 - France
- 1997 Agrégation de philosophie (National Competitive Exam in philosophy - rank: 9)
- 1994 - 2000 Student at Ecole Normale Supérieure (rank: 6)
AWARDS
- 2010 CNRS bronze medal
- 2006 Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows
EDITORIAL BOARDS, REVIEWING
- Associate editor of the Journal of Semantics
- Member of the editorial boards of Semantics and Pragmatics, Natural Language Semantics, Italian Journal of Linguistics
- Reviewing for funding agencies: National Science Foundation, British Academy, Leverhulme Trus, Israel Science Foundation, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Reviewing for international peer-reviewed journals:
Cognition, Dialectica, Language, Glossa, Lingua (before 2015), Linguistics and Philosophy, J. of Semantics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Natural Language Semantics, Mind and Language, J. of Applied Non-Classical Logics, J. of Linguistics, J. of Logic, Language and Information, J. of Morphology , Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Historical Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, J. of Experimental Psychology.
SELECTED FUNDED PROJECTS
- 2020 - 2024: Research Grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. 'Probalistic Semantics and Pragmatics' (PI. Amount = 191000 euros).
- 2014 - 2018: Research Grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. ‘Trivalent logics and natural language meanings’ (PI. Amount = 212000 euros)