Sontag remarked that her time in Paris was, perhaps, the most important period of her life.
Tam je študirala z Iris Murdoch, Stuartom Hampshireom, A. J. Ayersom in H. L. A. Hartom, medtem pa hodila tudi na seminarje B. Phila z J. L. Austinom in predavanja Isaiaha Berlina.