@dansperber

Philosophy, cognitive science, social sciences

 Paris
dan.sperber.fr
Joined August 2008
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Laurent Cesari@CesariLaurent124 Sep 2024
Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 newleftreview.org/issues/ii1… via @newleftreview

Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024

Since 2017, France’s Fifth Republic has been polarized between three novel coalitions—techno-bourgeois, far-right and radical left. After July’s snap elections, as Macron once again pockets the...

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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…

International Cognition and Culture Institute

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and here is the list of contributors to cognitionandculture.net/inde…
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Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies aeon.co/essays/how-do-we-tra…

How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays

If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records?

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Read: theguardian.com/world/articl…

Torture, abuse and humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli prison ‘hell’

Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation in alleged ‘torture camp’ jails presided over by Itamar Ben-Gvir

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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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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto5 Jun 2024
Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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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" osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zp… via @OSFramework

Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective

Ostensive communication (Sperber & Wilson, 1995) involves both an informative and a communicative intention: The communicator draws attention not only to the information she intends to convey but...

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Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!
Denis Tatone@Denis_Tatone27 Apr 2024
Replying to @Denis_Tatone
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! 🐒♥️ 15/15
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Mathieu Charbonneau@matcharbonneau119 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. mitpress.mit.edu/97802625478… 1/5

The Evolution of Techniques

Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques, edit...

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Marchons contre la loi immigration le 21 janvier 21janvier.fr/
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Watch “for Refaat Alareer” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/890258497?ref=tw-s…
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Need a Bluesky code? DM me
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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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David Pinsof@DavidPinsof14 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-…

Psychology Lost a Great Mind - Nautilus

With his wife, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby transformed our understanding of human nature.

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