Vincent Descombes
Visiting Professor of French Literature; Directeur, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesdescombes@uchicago.edu
Vincent Descombes is one of the foremost French philosophers today. His highly influential work on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of literature includes Modern French Philosophy(Cambridge University Press, 1980); Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988); Proust: Philosophy of the Novel (Stanford University Press, 1992); The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophie of Current Events (Oxford University Press, 1993); The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism (Princeton University Press, 2001); Les Institutions du sens (Éditions de Minuit, 1996); Le Complément de sujet (Gallimard, 2004).
Vincent Descombes has taught at the University of Montréal, Johns Hopkins University, and Emory University. Presently, he is director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature and the Committee on Social Thought.