Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Cooperation
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Venue: Seligman Library, Room OLD6.05, Old Building, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Wednesday May 22nd at 4:00 pm
Christian List (Departments of Government and Philosophy, LSE)
Three kinds of collective attitude
Wednesday June 5th at 4:00 pm
Rita Astuti & Charles Stafford (Department of Anthropology, LSE)
Mutualistic cooperation across cultures
Wednesday June 19th at 4:00 pm
Fabrice Clément (Cognitive Science Center, University of Neuchatel)
Cooperation and trust: a developmental perspective
Wednesday July 3rd at 4:00 pm
Francesco Guala (Department of Economics, University of Milan)
The three keys of cooperation: rules, expectations, and (cheap) punishment
For additional information please contact Charles Stafford: c.stafford@lse.ac.uk|
Previous Culture and Cognition Events
Culture and Cognition Seminar
Michaelmas term 2011
Seligman library, Old Building, LSE
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Tuesday
11 October
6pm
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Doug Medin (Northwestern University)
Cultural Epistemologies: Native-American versus European-American
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Wednesday
9 November
6pm
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Susan Gelman (University of Michigan)
The Origins of Essentialist Reasoning
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Friday
18 November
10.30am
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Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod)
Evolutionary, cognitive and anthropological issues in the study of morality
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Wednesday
23 November
6pm
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Norbert Ross (Vanderbilt University)
Space, Place and Epistemological Frameworks
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Soul dust: the magic of consciousness
Speaker: Professor Nicholas Humphrey
Chair: Professor Charles Stafford
18.30 - 20.00, 15 February 2011, Hong Kong Theatre
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Nicholas Humphrey has a radical new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage inside our own heads - paving the way for spirituality, and allowing us to reap the rewards, and anxieties, of living in the "soul niche."
Nicholas Humphrey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the LSE. His many books include A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith and, most recently, Soul Dust (published January 2011).
This is one of a series of events on 'The Study of Culture and Cognition Today' funded by the LSE Annual Fund.
Previous lecture series on culture and cognition
Lent term and Summer term 2010
18.00 - 20.00 Seligman library, Old building, LSE
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Tuesday 12 January
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Paul Harris (Harvard)
Do children think that miracles are just fairy stories?
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Monday 18 January
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Susan Carey (Harvard)
The origin of concepts
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Tuesday 02 February
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Maurice Bloch (LSE)
Reconciling social science and cognitive science views of the self, the person, the individual etc...
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Thursday 18 February
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Stanislas Dehaene (College de France)
How do humans acquire novel cultural skills? The neuronal recycling model
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Monday 01 March
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Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford)
Hearing God: how American evangelicals learn to experience God as real
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Monday 08 March
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Pascal Boyer (Washington)
Why humans have memories
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Thursday 18 March
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Natalie Sebanz (Radboud)
Acting together: How people share actions, tasks, and memories
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Tuesday 27 April
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Tim Ingold (Aberdeen)
To learn is to improvise a movement along a way of life
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Monday 17 May
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Vanessa Fong (Harvard)
Transformations of Cultural Models as they Pass from Parent to Child in a Globalized World: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Studies of Chinese Families
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Monday 24 May
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Rob Boyd (UCLA)
Culture as an evolutionary phenomenon
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Thursday 10 June
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Hannes Rakoczy (Gottingen)
The early ontogeny of collective intentionality and normativity
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Wednesday 16 June
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Rogers Brubaker (UCLA)
Doing things with categories: the cognitive turn in the study of ethnicity
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Wednesday 30 June
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Lera Boroditsky (Stanford)
How do the languages we speak shape the way we think?
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