Claudine Tiercelin

Claudine Tiercelin is a French philosopher, working on metaphysics and philosophy of science. She is professor of philosophy at the Collège de France, after having been professor at the Paris XII.

Biography Claudine Tiercelin was born in Brest, France 1952. When she was 9, her father, a soldier, died in the First Indochina War. As a result, she was eligible for a scholarship which allowed her to study at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. In 1972 she joined the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles. In 1976 she received her Agrégation in philosophy.

From 2000 to 2003, she was the first female president of the jury des agrégations de philosophie. She is a researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, and has been a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. She has taught medieval and contemporary philosophy at several universities in France (Rouen, Paris 1, Tours, Paris 12) and overseas, notably at Fordham University in New York where she was the C. S. Peirce Professor of Philosophy. She is currently vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In December 2010, she took up the Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge, marking the first chair of metaphysics in the history of the Collège de France. In 2011, she was asked to carry out an investigation into academic ethics.

On 4 December 2017, she was elected member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Institut de France), to the position previously occupied by .