François Recanati, professor of philosophy at the Collège de France, is the winner of the 2024 Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize.

The prize is a form of cooperation between the France and Germany. It is awarded by the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research (MENESR) in association with the Academy of Sciences – Institute of France to German researchers and, as in the present case, by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to French researchers.

The award is award is conferred in recognition of the winner’s entire academic record to date. Its €60,000 prize is intended to support a research project by the winner in cooperation with colleagues from the awarding country.

Professor Recanati works in philosophy of language. His books include Perspectival Thought: A Plea for Moderate Relativism (Oxford, 2007), Literal Meaning (Cambridge, 2010), Truth-Conditional Pragmatics (Oxford, 2010), Mental Files (Oxford, 2012), and Langage, Discours, Pensée (Fayard, 2020). You can learn more about his research here and here.

You can find a list of previous winners of the award here.