Benjamin Spector

Benjamin Spector is a Research Director at the CNRS and an Associate Professor at École Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL), affiliated with the Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS/ENS/EHESS). His work bridges natural language interpretation, formal logic, and experimental psychology, focusing on the interplay between compositional semantics and pragmatic reasoning.

• Research Interests: Syntax-semantics interface, scalar implicatures, presuppositions, plural predication, quantification, vagueness, and polarity sensitivity.
• Teaching: Courses on logic, semantics, and the Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework, including at ENS and ESSLLI.
• Collaborations: Extensive co-authorship with scholars like Paul Egré, Danny Fox, and Emmanuel Chemla, exploring topics from exhaustivity in RSA to trivalent logic for presuppositions.
• Labs: Associate Director of the CONCEPTS, LOGIC, REASONING research network at Institut Jean-Nicod.