Curriculum vitae

HERMAN PARRET (Izegem, June 9, 1938), of Belgian nationality, lives in Ixelles (1050 Brussels, Belgium). The fields of specialization and publication of Herman Parret are: philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art, the methodology and epistemology of linguistics and semiotics, philosophy of language. His additional fields of interest are: the history of theories of language, the philosophy of the social sciences, the philosophy of music and the history of modern and contemporary philosophy.

Herman Parret studied at the University of Leuven where he obtained a licentiate in Romance Philology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., at the University of California at Berkeley and at Stanford University. He was a Director of Research (Directeur de Recherches) at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and at the same time Professor at the University of Antwerp (till 1997) and Full Professor at the University of Leuven where he taught philosophy of language and philosophical aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy and at the Department of Art Sciences. He became full professor emeritus in 2004. He was also affiliated at the Università degli Studi di Siena from 2003 till 2010. He has been Invited Professor at the Universities of Campinas and Sao Paulo (Brasil), Tel Aviv, the University of California at San Diego, at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, and he delivered unnumerable lectures and papers at various foreign universities. He has been as well a professor at the Institut Universitaire de France and associated director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He occupied the (Belgian) Francqui Chair 1988-89 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Peter Paul Rubens Chair at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990-91 and again the Francqui Chair at the Université de Liège in 1997-98. He obtained a Doctorate Honoris Causa at the University of Timisoara (Rumania), at the Universidad de Lima (Peru) and at the Université de Limoges (France). He published 12 books and more than 250 articles in French, in English and in Dutch in the fields of the philosophy of language, semiotics and aesthetics. He was translated in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Korean, Turkish and Japanese.

M.A. in Romance Philology, Leuven University, 1962; Agrégation de l’Enseignement secondaire supérieure, Leuven University, 1964; M.A. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University, 1966; Ph.D. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University, 1970; Special Ph.D. in Philosophy (Doctorat d’Etat, Habilitation), Leuven University, 1981

Emeritus Full Professor (Emeritus Gewoon Hoogleraar) at Leuven University, 2004 to present

Before

Assistant Professor at Leuven University, 1966-1970; Non-tenured Research Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation, 1970-1975; Tenured Research Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation, 1975-1981; Associate Professor at Antwerp University, 1976-1985; Lecturer at Leuven University, 1977-1993; Senior Research Fellow (Rank B) of the Belgian National Science Foundation, 1981-1986; Senior (tenured) Research Fellow (Rank A) of the Belgian National Science Foundation (Directeur de Recherches), 1986-2000; Professor at Antwerp University (Universitaire Instelling Antwerp), part-time, 1985-1997; Professor at Leuven University, part-time, 1993-1997; Full Professor part-time (Buitengewoon Hoogleraar), at Leuven University, 1997-2000; Full Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar), at Leuven University, 2000-2004

Fellowships

Fulbright/Hays Scholarship United States Government, 1971-1972; Various fellowships (pre- en post-doctoral) by the Belgian Government (Ministry of International Cultural Relations), the Belgian National Science Foundation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), from 1975 through 1983 (annual), and in 1967, 1968, 1970, to be used at the Universities of Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Federal Republic), the University of Paris-Nanterre, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Oxford University (Magdalen College). Fellowhsips from 1975 through 1985 by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Research Scholarships

Research Associate, Department of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., 1971-1972; Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.), 1972 and 1974; Research Associate at Stanford University, Department of Philosophy (U.S.A.), 1977 and 1978; Visiting Scholar at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (The Netherlands), 1978-1979, 1979-1980, 1980-1981; Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University (U.S.A.), 1986

Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University (U.S.A.), 1997-1998

Visiting Professorships

Visiting Professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil), Departments of Philosophy and of Linguistics: 1976 (fall trimester), 1977 (fall trimester), 1986 (fall trimester), 1989 (spring trimester), 1994 (fall semester); Visiting Professor at the University of Tel Aviv (Israel), Department of Philosophy: 1978 (fall semester, partly), 1979 (fall semester, partly); (Directeur d’Etudes associé) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Sixième Section, Paris: 1980-1981 ; Visiting Professor at the State University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), Department of Linguistics: 1984 (spring semester), 1986 (fall semester), 1994 (fall semester); Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Diego, U.S.A., Department of Philosophy,1985 (spring quarter); Invited Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France (Pars/Limoges), 1999-2000; Professor at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Università di Siena, Dottorato di Ricerca su Studi sulla rappresentazione visiva, from 2005 on;at the Università La Sapienza, dottorato di ricerca Facolta di Filosfia, March-June 2015.

Honorific Chairs

Appointed to the Francqui Chair 1988-1989 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres ; Appointed to the Peter Paul Rubens Chair 1990-1991 at the University of California at Berkeley, Departments of Philosophy and of German Studies ; Appointed to the Francqui Chair 1997-1998 at the Université d’Etat de Liège, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres ; Appointed to the International Chair Emilio Garroni, Università La Sapienza, Roma, March 11, 2007

Honorary Degrees

Honorary Doctorate at the University of Timisoara (Romenia), April 2, 1999; Honorary Doctorate at the University of Lima (Peru), September 4, 2000; Honorary Doctorate at the Université de Limoges (France), May 4, 2006

[International adviser of the Grupo Latinoamericano de Semiotica, 1985] [Member of the Scientific Council, Groupe de recherches N. 7, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1971] [Corresponding member of the Research Unit 665 (“Etude linguistique de la signification appréhendée à travers l’ambiguïté et la paraphrase”) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), 1985] [Member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association, 1986] [Member of the Board of the Centre Européen pour l’Etude de l’Argumentation, 1988] [Member of the Advisory Board of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, 1989] [Member of the Scientific Council of the Centro de Logica, Epistemologia e Historia da Ciencia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brasil), from 1980] [Representative of Belgium at the Board of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, from 1985] [Member of the Commission d’Accompagnement of the Centro de Communicaçao e Linguagens (CECL) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from 1997 on]

Member of the Editorial Boards of the following scientific journals:

[Acta Semiotica e Linguistica (Sao Paulo)] [Studies in Language (Amsterdam-Philadelphia)] [Interdisciplinair Tijdschrift voor Taal- en Tekstwetenschap (Amsterdam)] [Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing (Amsterdam)] [Logique et Analyse (Brussels)] [Kodikas (Essen)] [Argumentation (Dordrecht)] [Journal of Pragmatics (Amsterdam)] [Recherches Sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry (Montreal)] [Relaciones (Montevideo)] [Morphè. Semiotica y Lingüistica (Puebla)] [Scripta Semiotica (Berlin)] [Signo e Sena (Buenos Aires)] [Janus (Brussel)]

Cadernos de Filosofia (Lisboa) ; DeSignis (Barcelona/Buenos Aires) ; Esthetica. Tijdschrift voor kunst en filosofie (Amsterdam) ; Lenguaje in Contexto (Buenos Aires) ; Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques/Documents (Paris) ; Revista de Comunicaçao e Linguagens (Lisboa) ; Semiotica (Berlin-New York) ; Sciences pour la communication (Berne) ; Versus (Bologna) ; Visible (Limoges) ; Visio - Revue de l’association internationale de sémiotique visuelle (Blois/Paris) ; Contexto (Lima)

[Editor of Semiotic Crossroads, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, J. Benjamins, 1987-1995] [Editor of Actes Sémiotiques, Paris/Amsterdam, Hadès-Benjamins, 1984-1992] [Editor of Semiotisch Perspectief, Amsterdam, J. Benjamins, 1991-1993] [Editor (with J. Verschueren and J. Mey) of Pragmatics and Beyond, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, J. Benjamins, 1979-2007]

[President of the Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, 1985-1988] [President of the Interuniversity Group “Semiotics and the Social Sciences” of the Belgian National Science Foundation, 1988-1995]

Director

1982 F. van Eemeren and R. Grootendorst, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Letters; 1988 F. Pimenta de Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Linguïstica; 1991 M. Deckers-Dijs, University of Utrecht, Faculty of Theology; 1995 R. Pires de Oliveira, K. Universiteit Leuven, Department of Linguistics; 1998 F. Brisard, University of Antwerp, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Department of Linguistics; 2000 B. Vandenabeele, K. Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy; 2003 E. Saethre, K. Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Letters, Department of Art History; 2006 B. Vandenbussche, K. Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Letters, Department of Art History; 2007 J. Wambacq, K. Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy; 2007 M.F. Deckard, K. Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy; 2011 V. Ionescu, K. Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy

Co-director

1983 S. Leblanc, University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, Department of Philosophy

Lecturer

1975 L. Van Poucke, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters; 1976 M. Adriaens, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters; 1979 J. Van der Auwera, Antwerp University, Department of Linguistics; 1983 L. Mottron, Université de Paris I, Department of Linguistics, president of the jury; 1984 F. Heyvaert, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters; 1985 Cl. Zilberberg, Université de Paris III, Department of Linguistics; 1986 S. Geukens, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters; 1987 L.W. Young, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters; 1987 A. Verbiest, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Letters; 1989 E. van Wolde, University of Nijmegen, Faculty of Theology; 89 J. Verschueren, University of Antwerp, Department of Germanic Philolology; 1990 A. Gebhard, University of Groningen, Faculty of Letter; 1991 A.Batoma, Université de Liège, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters; 1992 C. Brassac, Université de Nancy II, Department of Social Psychology; 1992 W. De Mulder, University of Antwerp, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; 1993 L. De Meyer, Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Département de Communication; 1993 G. Wakana, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut de Philosophie; 1993 N. Roelens, University of Antwerp, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; 1993 A. Hénault, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Thèse d’Habilitation; 1994 J. Nuyts, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Germaanse Taal- en Letterkunde, Aggregatie Hoger Onderwijs; 1997 M. Brasher, Leuven University, Institute of Philosophy; 1998 S. Badir, Université de Liège, Faculté de Lettres; 1998 J. Post, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Letterenfaculteit; 1998 A. Beyaert, Université de Limoges, Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines; 2000 A. Dechambre, Université de Liège, Faculté de Lettres, Département de Philosophie; 2000 P. Goethals, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Linguistics; 2000 F. Baeyens, University of Leuven, Institute of Philosophy; 2000 D. Bertrand, Université Paris III-Nouvelle Sorbonne, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2001 E. Wouters, University of Antwerp, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Romaanse Taal- en Letterkunde; 2001 D. Ablali, Université de Paris-Nanterre, Faculté de lettres; 2001 M. Delbeke, University of Gent, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Architecture Department; 2001 S. Bouquet, Université de Paris-Nanterre, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2001 A. Zinna, Université de Limoges, Faculté de Lettres, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2002 J.F. Bordron, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2002 D. Savakovsky, Université de Paris III, Paris, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2003 W. Davidts, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Faculteit der Toegepaste Wetenschappen, Sectie Architectuur; 2003 E. Brouwer, Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Letteren, Departement Filosofie; 2003 J. Christiaens, K. Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit der Letteren, Departement Musicologie; 2004 S. van Keulen, Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Letteren, Afdeling Filosofie; 2004 D. Ducard, Université de Paris St. Denis Diderot, Thèse d’Habilitation; 2008 N. Paglianti, Université de Limoges, Département des Sciences Humaines; 2011 R. Delrue, Doctorate in the Arts, K. Universiteit Leuven, Department of Art Sciences; 2017 Marina Maluli, Université de Paris IV, Paris-Sorbonne; 2018, Nathalie Kremer, Université de Paris III, Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Thèse d’Habilitation

Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics, International Conference, Urbino (Italy), 1979; Meaning and Understanding/Signification and Comprehension, International Conference, Cerisy-la-Salle (France), 1980; On Believing/Le savoir et le croire, International Conference, Albi (France), 1981; L’énonciation et la mise en discours, Conference, Albi (France), 1982; Foundations of the Theories of Language, Conference of the Groupe Sigma, sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Villa Serbeloni (Italy), 1988; Hétérogénéités: ruptures, silences, ellipses, International Conference, Urbino (Italy), 1988; Kant’s Aesthetics, University of Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, International Conference, 1993; L’esthétique de Kant, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle (France), International Conference, 1993; Inquiries into Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, International Workshop, 1994; The Question of Art Today, University of Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, 2000; La contribution de la pensée italienne à la culture européenne, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, october 2003; Racconti e figure della memoria e dell’oblio, Siena, Università degli Studi, Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, february 2006; Expression, Communication and Sensus Communis (avec Antonio Marques), Lisbon, Center of Philosophy of Language, international conference, march 2006

Argentina Buenos Aires (1984; 1987; 1994; 1995), Rosario (1987), Cordoba (1984; 1987), La Plata (1994; 1995)

Austria Vienna (1980)

Belgium Antwerp (1979, 1987, 1989, 1990, 2016, 2017) Brussels (1974; 1975; 2006; 2007; 2009; 2013, 2017; 2018; 2019; Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, 1976; Belgian Society for Philosophy, 1980; 1981; 1984; 1988/2; 1999; Francqui Chair, 1989; 1990; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009), Gent (1974; 1992; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2007; 2013; 2019), Liège (1977; 1978; 1985; 1992), Louvain (1971; 1973; Société Philosophique de Louvain, 1974; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1989/2; 1990/2; 2007; 2009; 2017; 2018), Louvain-la-Neuve (1978; 1985); Kortrijk (1992); Mechelen (1999), Hasselt (2000, 2017), Vaalbeek (2018), Doornik (2019)

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China Bejing (1991; 2004), Jinan (1991), Hong Kong (1991)

Denmark Sostrup (1989), Copenhague (1993)

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Japan Osaka (Linguistic Society of Japan, 1986; 1994; 1995), Kobe (1986; 1994), Tokyo (1982; 1986; 1994), Komamuto (1986), Kyoto (1986), Fukuoka (1986), Sapporo (1994), Sendai (1994)

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Uruguay Montevideo (1987; 1994)

Venezuela Caracas (1981)