Team from Archives Poincaré: Andrew Arana (PR, Département de Philosophie, Université de Lorraine) is a philosopher of mathematics who has worked extensively on normativity in mathematics, in particular on purity of methods and mathematical depth. His first book on purity in mathematics will appear in 2024 with CUP. Christophe Eckes (MCF, math., UL) is a historian of mathematics specializing in the scientific and mathematical relations between France and Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, and in the history of Nicolas Bourbaki. Baptiste Mélès (CR, CNRS) is a philosopher of logic, mathematics and informatics, with an active research program on 20th century philosophy of mathematics in France.
Team from LLF: Heather Burnett (DR, CNRS) is a linguist specializing in sociolinguistics and formal semantics. She has written two books: one (2017, OUP) on reasoning with vague predicates and one (2023, CUP) on game-theoretic modeling of sociolinguistic variation. The more recent book outlines a research program that is the topic of an ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025). Anne Abeillé (PR, Linguistique, UParis Cité) works on formal syntax and French grammar. She is the (co-)creator of many important resources for the French language, such as the French Treebank (2003) and la Grande Grammaire du Français (2021). Ira Noveck (DR, CNRS) is a psychologist working on language. His background is in the psychology of reasoning, and is one of the co-creators of the discipline of experimental pragmatics which uses experimental techniques to study linguistic meaning.
