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Dr Corine Besson

College Lecturer in Philosophy
Merton College & St Hugh's College, Oxford 

corine.besson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Merton College
Oxford OX1 4JD

Research Interests

Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, epistemology

Career & Education

2006-10 Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Hugh’s College, Oxford
2004-6 Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College and Jesus College, Oxford
2005 D.Phil. in Philosophy, Lincoln College, Oxford
2001 B.Phil. in Philosophy, Lincoln College, Oxford
1998 M.A. in Philosophy, University of Geneva

Corine Besson


Published or Forthcoming Papers

  1. ‘Externalism and Empty Natural Kind Terms’, Erkenntnis (forthcoming). (penultimate draft)

  2. ‘Logical Knowledge and Ordinary Reasoning’, Philosophical Studies (forthcoming). (penultimate draft) (online first version: http://www.springerlink.com/content/d527p061167nk517/)

  3. ‘Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms and Metasemantics’, in The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, H. Beebee and N. Sabbarton-Leary (eds), New York: Routledge USA (2010): 25-44. (penultimate draft) 

  4. ‘Understanding the Logical Constants and Dispositions to Infer’, in The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication (online only), vol. 5, B. Armour-Garb et al. (eds) (2010): 1-24. (penultimate draft) (published version http://thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/view/279/133)

  5. ‘Propositions, Dispositions and Logical Knowledge’ in Quid Est Veritas? Essays in Honour of Jonathan Barnes, A. Longo and M. Bonelli (eds), Napoli: Bibliopolis (2010): 233-268. (penultimate draft)

  6. ‘Externalism, Internalism and Logical Truth’, The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2, 1 (2009): 1-29. (penultimate draft) (published version http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5597152)

  7. ‘Logical Knowledge and Gettier Cases’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 59, 234 (2009): 1-19. (penultimate draft) (published version: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/phiq/2009/00000059/00000234/art00001)

Book

  1. Idéographie. First French translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift, Paris: J. Vrin Publisher (1999).

Recent and Forthcoming Talks

  1. TBC, University of Nottingham Research Seminar, 23/11/2011.

  2. TBC, Mind, World and Action Summer Course, Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, 29/8-2/9/2011.

  3. ‘A Tense Problem for Relativism about Future Contingents’, Institut Jean Nicod Philosophy Colloquium, Paris, 28/01/2011.

  4. ‘Logical Knowledge and Ordinary Reasoning’, Stockholm Philosophy Colloquium, University of Stockholm, 11/11/2010.

  5. ‘Logic and Reasoning’, Mind, World and Action Summer Course, Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, 30/8-3/9/2010.

  6. Reply to Pablo Santorio: ‘Reference and Monstrosity’, 2010 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham (Washington), 2-4/8/2010.