Claudine Tiercelin is Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, where she held the chair in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge from 2010 to 2025. She studied at the universities of Paris-IV, Berkeley and Paris-I, where, under the supervision of Jacques Bouveresse, she obtained a doctorate on C. S. Peirce's philosophy of knowledge and language, followed by a doctorate d'État on Peirce's problem of universals.
After teaching in secondary schools, Claudine Tiercelin worked as an assistant at the University of Rouen, as a lecturer at the University of Paris-I, and as a professor at the Universities of Tours and Paris-XII (Créteil). From 2000 to 2003, she chaired the jury for the internal and external agrégations in philosophy. She has taught abroad, notably at Fordham University (New York) in 2006 and 2007. Honorary senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, member of theInstitut Jean Nicod, member of the Academia Europaea since 2012, officier de la Légion d'honneur, officier de l'ordre national du Mérite, Claudine Tiercelin was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques on December 4 2017.
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Philosophy section)