Cognitive Science Colloquium accompanying discussion series

Spring 2009

All meetings take place on Thursdays, 3.30-5.30 pm in Bioscience Research Building 1103, and are open to all faculty and students.

January 29 — discussion of Pietroski, [1] Systematicity via Monadicity. Croatian Journal of Philosophy 2007. & [2] Minimalist meaning, internalist interpretation. Biolinguistics 2008.

February 12 — discussion of Sperber, [1] Children's early vigilance towards deception. submitted. & [2] Reasoning as a social competence. draft.

February 26 — discussion of Wynn, [1] Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature 2007. & [2] Some innate foundations of social and moral cognition. In Carruthers, Laurence & Stich, The Innate Mind 3, 2007.

March 12 — discussion of Mikhail, [1] Universal moral grammar: theory, evidence, and the future. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2007. & [2] Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation 2009.

April 2 — discussion of Spelke, [1] Foundations of cooperation in young children. Cognition 2008. & [2] Core knowledge. Developmental Science, 2007.

April 9 [NOTE THE ALTERED DATE] — discussion of Lidz, [1] The meaning of most: semantics, numerosity and psychology. Mind & Language 2008. & [2] Beyond statistical learning in syntax. submitted.

April 30 — discussion of Santos, [1] The origins of cognitive dissonance: evidence from children and monkeys. Psychological Science 2007. & [2] Rhesus monkeys know what others can and cannot hear. Animal Behavior 2006.