Philosophy, cognitive science, social sciences
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dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 newleftreview.org/issues/ii1… via @newleftreview
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The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers. cognitionandculture.net/inde…
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Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies
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Bernard Lortat-Jacob, ami chaleureux, formidable ethnomusicologue (lortajablog.fr/), est mort. Il m'avait accompagné chez les Dorzé en 1974, avait étudié leurs polyphonies, et produit un disque exemplaire
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In the just lauched Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu/open-encycloped…), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors oecs.mit.edu/pub/mfsrxxgb
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dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks.
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world aje.io/08arr7 via @AJEnglish
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Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) "Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective"
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27 Apr 2024
Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!
27 Apr 2024
Last but not least... I am on the job market since last summer and it hasn't been exactly a lucky ride. 😟 If anyone knows of positions for academics with an aptitude for interdisciplinary and evoutionarily grounded approaches to social cognition, do let me know! 🐒♥️
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dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social retweeted
19 Jan 2024
I am very excited to share with you the news that our book ‘The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation’ is coming out in exactly 2 months.
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Here are some thirty very short films shot during the Second Intifada in the West Bank and Gaza by the documentary filmmaker Dominique Dubosc:
PALESTINIAN STORIES : vimeo.com/showcase/10804566
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Dubosc writes: "...Their main interest is their brevity and, at the same time, their reflexivity. An intellectual and moral distance that I think we need in this age of viral videos and blind judgments. Of course, I take sides with Franz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Edward Saïd."
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Voici une trentaine de petits films que Dominique Dubosc avait tournés pendant la Seconde Intifada en Cisjordanie et à Gaza.
HISTOIRES PALESTINIENNES : vimeo.com/showcase/10804498
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dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social retweeted
14 Nov 2023
This tribute to the late John Tooby, one of my intellectual heroes, written by another one of my intellectual heroes, @sapinker, brought tears to my eyes. Well worth a read. nautil.us/psychology-lost-a-…
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