Dr Corine Besson

Email: corine.besson@gmail.com

Personal Website: (under construction)

Corine Besson did her undergraduate degree in Philosophy and French Literature at the University of Geneva. She then went to the University of Oxford for her postgraduate studies, where she was she was awarded a B.Phil. (2001) and a D.Phil. (2006) in Philosophy. She taught at Oxford as a Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy before joining Birkbeck in 2011.

Research interests

• Philosophy of language (in particular relativism, tense and temporal expressions, pronouns and natural kind terms)
• Epistemology (especially the epistemologies of logic and language)
• Philosophy of logic (mainly foundational issues concerning logical truth and consequence)

Areas of research supervision

• Philosophy of language
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of logic
• Early analytic philosophy (especially Frege).

Publications

Published or Forthcoming Papers

• (1) ‘Externalism and Empty Natural Kind Terms’, Erkenntnis (forthcoming). View
• (2) ‘Logical Knowledge and Ordinary Reasoning’, Philosophical Studies (forthcoming). View
• (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. View
• (4) ‘Understanding the Logical Constants and Dispositions to Infer’, in The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, vol. 5, B. Armour-Garb et al. (eds), available at: http://thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/view/279/133 (2010): 1-24. View
• (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. View
• (6) ‘Externalism, Internalism and Logical Truth’, The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2, 1 (2009): 1-29. View
• (7) ‘Logical Knowledge and Gettier Cases’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 59, 234 (2009): 1-19. View

Book

• (1) Idéographie. First French translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift, Paris: J. Vrin Publisher (1999).Forthcoming talks in 2012

Forthcoming talks in 2012

• 2 May 2012 - Edinburgh Epistemology Group, University of Edinburgh. View
• 6 May 2012 - University of Belgrade - to be confirmed
• 24-26 May 2012, Commentator, 3rd Annual Kings'/UNC-Chapel Hill Conference, King's College, London.  View 
• 13-14 June 2012 - Epistemology Workshop, Queen's University Belfast.  View 
• 27-31 August 2012, Mind, World and Action Summer Course, Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik. View