Corine Besson

Corine Besson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, affiliated with the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. She also serves as co-Director of the Centre for Logic, Language and Information (CeLLi) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Her academic journey includes a B.Phil. (2001) and D.Phil. (2006) from the University of Oxford, following undergraduate studies in Philosophy and French Literature at the University of Geneva. Prior to Sussex, she held positions at Oxford and Birkbeck College London.

Her research focuses on epistemology, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language, with particular emphasis on foundational issues in logic, normativity, and the historical analysis of analytic philosophy. She is currently completing a book on Reasoning and Carroll's Regress, addressing Lewis Carroll’s 1895 regress argument and its implications for logical cognitivism. Her work bridges historical analysis (e.g., Frege, Carroll) with contemporary debates in epistemology and semantics.

Publications span topics like logical anti-exceptionalism, truth relativism, and the epistemology of logic, appearing in journals such as Philosophical Studies and Synthèse. She has secured grants including the Bank of Sweden Jubilee Fund’s Foundations of Epistemic Normativity (2018–2021) and contributed to projects like Expressivism Generalised (2013–2015). Her teaching includes advanced courses on David Lewis, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Besson is active in public engagement, delivering talks on rationality and ethics (e.g., Manchester Grammar School, EthicsLab, Hay-on-Wye Philosophy Festival). She also co-leads the Southern Normativity Group (SoNG), fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on normative philosophy.