University Degrees:

• Degree of the Ecole Polytechnique (1967),
• "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" in Mathematics (1968),
• Degree of the EHESS (1973),
• "Doctorat d'Etat es Lettres et Sciences Humaines" (Habilitationsschrift) (1982).

Scientific Committees 

• French National Center for Scientific Research Section 45 (1987-1991) and Sections 27, 45 (2004-2006).
• DEA ("Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies", EHESS, University of Paris VI, Ecole Polytechnique)
  
• Master of Cognitive Sciences (EHESS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Paris V-Sorbonne).
• Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle (Executive Committee until 2005).
  
• "Les Treilles" Schlumberger Foundation (2005-2013).
  
• International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies (University of San Marino, dir. U. Eco) until 2006.
• Dottorato in Semiotica, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione of the University of Bologna (2006-...).
• Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici “Umberto Eco“.
• Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis (BISCA, Dir. L. Albertazzi, R. Poli, 1996-2005).
• Centro Studi Federigo Enriques, Livorno (2002-...).
• Comitato per la Edizione Nazionale delle Opere diFederigo Enriques 
  
• Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (2009-...).
• Centro “Giulio Preti” (Dir. F. Minazzi), University of Varese (2010-...).

Academies and Scientific Associations

• Member, International Academy of Philosophy of Science.
• Member, Société des Amis de Jean Cavaillès (2015- )
  
• Member, Executive Committee of the Association Henri Poincaré (1994-1997).
• Founder and first President of the Fernando Gil International Prize for Philosophy of Science (Lisboa).
• “Giulio Preti” International Prize of Tuscany (Pianeta Galileo, Firenze, Italy, 2011).
• Vice-president, International Association for Semiotic Studies (1986-1990).
• Former vice-president, French Association of Semiotics.
• Honorary Member, International Association for Visual Semiotics.
• Founder Member and Vice-president, Centre de Synthèse pour une épistémologie formelle (CESEF) (Pres. Miss M. Mugur-Schächter).
• Member, Società di Studi Valdesi.
  

Editorial Boards 

• Editorial Boards:
• Journal of Physiology-Paris (2006-2012).
• Archives de Philosophie.
• Sémiotiques.
• Il Protagora.
  
• Scientific Committees:
• VERSUS Quaderni di Studi Semiotici.
  
• Western Philosophy Series.
• Cognitive Semiotics.
  
• Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines (until 2012).
• (former member)
  
• Journal of the Association Henri Poincaré.
• Intellectica.
  
• Semiotic Inquiry.
• Analisè.
  
• Biologica.
  
• Scripta Semiotica.
• VISIO.
• Sciences et Techniques en perspective.
• Visible, Pulim, University of Limoges.

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Books:

• Morphogenèse du Sens (PUF, Paris, 1985). Italian trans. Morfogenesi del Senso (Bompiani, Milan, 1990),
  
• Les Catastrophes de la Parole : de Roman Jakobson à René Thom (Maloine, Paris, 1985),
• Local/Global (Enciclopedia Einaudi, vol.4, 1986),
• La Philosophie transcendantale et le problème de l'objectivité (Editions Osiris, Paris, 1991),
• Physique du Sens (Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1992).
• Morphologie et Esthétique (Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, 2003).
• Morphogenesis of Meaning (Peter Lang, Bern, 2003).
• Neurogéométrie de la vision. Modèles mathématiques et physiques des architectures fonctionnelles (Les Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, Distribution Ellipses, Paris, 2008).
• Per un nuovo illuminismo. La conoscenza scientifica come valore culturale e civile (trad. F. Minazzi, Milano, Bompiani, Il campo semiotico a cura di Umberto Eco, 2009).
• Cognitive Morphodynamics. Dynamical Morphological Models of Constituency in Perception and Syntax (with R. Doursat, Peter Lang, Bern, 2011).
• Elements of Neurogeometry. Functional Architectures of Vision, Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (Springer, 2017).
• Éléments de Neurogéometrie II. Géométrie sous-riemannienne et analyse harmonique non commutative du cortex visuel primaire. CAMS, EHESS, 2024.

 

• "René Thom" Cerisy Conference Logos et Théorie des Catastrophes (Patiño, Genève, 1989),
• (with P. Fabbri). "Umberto Eco" Cerisy Conference Au nom du Sens (Grasset, Paris, 1999),
• (with F. Varela, J-M. Roy & B. Pachoud). Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Stanford University Press, 1999).
• (with L. Scarantino). Sciences et Philosophie en France et en Italie entre les deux guerres (Biblioteca Europea, 23, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Vivarium, Napoli, 2001).
• (with P. Fabbri). Nel Nome del Senso (Sansoni, Milano, 2001).
• (with F. Varela, J-M. Roy & B. Pachoud). Naturaliser la phénoménologie (CNRS Editions, Paris, 2002).
• (with J. Lorenceau). Neurogeometry and Visual Perception, Special Issue of the Journal of Physiology-Paris, 97, 2-3, 2003.
• (with P. Nemo). Histoire du libéralisme en Europe (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2006).
• (avec M. Bitbol & P. Kerszberg). Constituting Objectivity. Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol. 74, Springer, 2009).
• (with A. Sarti & G. Citti). Neuromathematics of vision, Special Issue of the Journal of Physiology-Paris, 103, 1-2, 2009.
• (with P. Bundgaard). Aesthetic Cognition, Special Issue of Cognitive Semiotics, 5, 2010.
• (with M. Bitbol, A. Cohen, J.-P. Dupuy). Francisco Varela. Le cercle créateur. Ecrits (1976-2001) (Le Seuil, Paris, 2017).
  

 

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