Vincent Descombes (1948—) is a contemporary French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about the brain. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. ... Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness. ... The word cognitivism is used in several ways: In ethics, cognitivism is the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions, and hence are capable of being true or false. ... Comparative brain sizes In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), acts as the control center of the central nervous system. ...

See John Haugeland, Jerry Fodor, John McDowell, Andy Clark, Noam Chomsky, John Searle, Tim van Gelder, Jonathan Potter, George Lakoff. John Haugeland (born in 1948), is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. ... Jerry Allan Fodor (b. ... John McDowell (born 1942) is a contemporary philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford and now a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Andy Clark was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932) is Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and consciousness, on the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities, and on practical reason. ... Tim van Gelder is an associate professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. ... Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis at the Loughborough University. ... George P. Lakoff (, born 1941) is a professor of linguistics (in particular, cognitive linguistics) at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1972. ...

Works

• Le platonisme (1970)
• L'inconscient malgré lui, 1977
• Le même et l'autre. Quarante-cinq ans de philosophie française (1933-1978), Editions de Minuit, 1979
• Grammaire d'objets en tous genres, 1983
• Proust: philosophie du roman, Editions de Minuit, 1987
• Philosophie par gros temps, 1989
• La denrée mentale, 1995
• Les Institutions du sens, 1996
• Le Complément de sujet, 2004