Culture and Cognition Across Species

Scott Atran, Psychology, University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Why Apes Can't Have Religion: Theory of Mind and Other Aspects of Religion's Evolutionary Landscape
Friday, January 17, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Peter Carruthers, Psychology, University of Maryland
Distinctively Human Thinking in a Massively Modular Mind
Friday, January 24, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Kent Berridge, Psychology, University of Michigan
Unconscious Emotion and Irrational Desire
Friday, January 31, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Susan Carey, Psychology, Harvard University
The Origin of Concepts
Friday, February 7, 10:30 A.M. 3048 East Hall

Henry Wellman, Psychology, University of Michigan
Theory of Mind: A Core Human Cognition
Friday, February 14, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Friday, February 21, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
Problems and Prospects for Memes in Explanations of Human Culture
Friday, March 14, 10:30 A.M. 6050 I.S.R.

David Hull, Northwestern University
Blank Slates and Human Nature
Friday, March 21, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Herbert Terrace, Columbia University
A Crucial Difference Between Cognition in Human and Non-Human Primates
Friday, March 28, 10:30 A.M. 4448 East Hall

Daniel Povinelli, University of Louisiana
The SELF Evolved In Action
Friday, March 28, 10:30 A.M. 3048 East Hall

Robert Boyd, University of California in Los Angeles
Why Baboons Don't Have History
Friday, April 11, 10:30 A.M. 6050 I.S.R.

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