Culture and Cognition / Evolution and Human Behavior Speaker Series
"Culture and Cognition Across Species"
Winter 2003
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Date

Speaker

Title

Location

January 17 Scott Atran
University of  Michigan &
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
"Why Apes Can't Have Religion: Theory of Mind and Other Aspects of Religion's Evolutionary Landscape" 4448 East Hall 
January 24 Peter Carruthers
University of Maryland
"Distinctively Human Thinking in a Massively Modular Mind" 4448 East Hall 
January 31 Kent Berridge
University of Michigan
"Unconscious Emotion and Irrational Desire" 4448 East Hall 
February 7

Susan Carey
Harvard University

"The Origin of Concepts" 3048 East Hall
February 14 Henry Wellman
University of Michigan 
"Theory of Mind: A Core Human Cognition "
4448 East Hall 
February 21 Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
"The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" 4448 East Hall
March 14 Daniel Dennett
Tufts University
"Problems and Prospects for Memes in Explanations of Human Culture" 6050 ISR
March 21  David Hull
Northwestern University
"Blank Slates and Human Nature" 4448 East Hall 
March 28  Herbert Terrace
Columbia University
"A Crucial Difference Between Cognition in Human and Non-Human Primates"
4448 East Hall
April 4 Daniel Povinelli
University of Louisiana
"The SELF Evolved In Action" 3048 East Hall 
April 11 Robert Boyd
UCLA
"Why Baboons Don't Have History" 6050 ISR 
       

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