Seminar announcement

[Federica Tuniz]

Seminar Announcement

*Dan Sperber
*Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris


*Articulating cognition and culture

*Monday, April 10 at hr.16.30
SISSA Main Building, Aula D

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. He is the author 
of /Rethinking Symbolism/ (1975), /On Anthropological Knowledge/ (1985), 
/Explaining Culture/ (1996). In these three books, He has developed a 
naturalistic approach to culture under the name of "epidemiology of 
representations". Dan Sperber is also the co-author, with Deirdre Wilson 
(Department of Linguistics, University College, London) of /Relevance: 
Communication and Cognition/ (1986, Revised 1995). Dan Sperber and 
Deirdre Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication 
known as "Relevance Theory". Both the epidemiology of representations 
and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial.


host: SISSA Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor Jacques Mehler 
(mehler at sissa.it)