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Dr Corine Besson

Fellow in Philosophy
St Hugh's College

corine.besson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

St Hugh's College
St Margaret's Road
Oxford OX2 6LE

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

Publications

  1. ‘Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms and Metasemantics’Rigidity, Natural Kind Terms and Metasemantics’, forthcoming March 2010 in The semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Helen Beebee (ed.), Routledge Studies in Metaphysics.

  2. ‘Externalism, Internalism and Logical Truth’, The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2 (vol. 1), 2009.

  3. Review of New Waves in Epistemology, V. Hendricks and D. Pritchard (eds), Mind, forthcoming.

  4. ‘Logical Knowledge and Gettier Cases’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 59 (vol. 234), 2009.

  5. ‘Propositions, Dispositions and Logical Knowledge’, forthcoming in Quid Est Veritas? Philosophia Antiqua Genevensis, Essays in Honour of Jonathan Barnes, Longo, A., Bonelli, M. (eds), Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2010.

  6. Idéographie. First complete French translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift. Postface by Prof. Jonathan Barnes, Paris: J. Vrin Publisher (1999).

Work in Progress

  1. ‘Dispositions to Infer and Reasoned Change in View’ (under review).

  2. ‘Externalism and Empty Natural Kind Terms’ (under review).

  3. ‘Logical Truths and Their Instances’ (final draft).

  4. ‘Natural Kind Terms and Plural Quantification’ (early draft).

Recent and Forthcoming Talks

  1. ‘Classical Logic and A Priori Knowledge’, Epistemé Workshop on the A Priori, University of Geneva, forthcoming 1-2/3/2010.

  2. ‘Understanding the Logical Constants and Dispositions to Infer’, Fifth International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Meaning, Understanding and Knowledge, Riga, 8/2009.

  3. ‘Logical Knowledge, Dispositions to Infer and Reasoned Change in View’, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University of East Anglia, 7/2009.

  4. 'Externalism, Empty Natural Kind Terms and Reference Failure’, BW6 – Reference and Non-Existence, Sixth Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference, 17-19 June 2009.

  5. ‘Logical Truths and Their Instances’, Sixth Meeting of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ECAP-6), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 8/2008.

  6. ‘General Propositions’, Workshop on A Priori Knowledge, University of Aberdeen, 4/2008.

  7. Reply to Andrew Bacon: ‘Knowing Wh’, University of Oxford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, 4/2008.

  8. ‘Natural Kind Terms: A Metasemantic Approach’, Nature and Its Classification: A Metaphysics of Science Conference’, University of Birmingham, 10/2007.

  9. ‘Natural Kind Terms: a Metasemantic Approach’, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Bristol, 7/2007.

  10. ‘Logical Knowledge and Gettier Cases’, Arché Basic Knowledge Pilot Workshop, University of St Andrews, 11/2006.