dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social
@dansperber
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Philosophy, cognitive science, social sciences
Paris
Joined August 2008
Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 https://t.co/Dzb5d6r7GJ via @newleftreview
newleftreview.org
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.
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Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies https://t.co/hqK4iYSlts
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If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records?
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Bernard Lortat-Jacob, ami chaleureux, formidable ethnomusicologue ( https://t.co/nVBeIHeM72), 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 ( https://t.co/dxB0W9GlzB), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors
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Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks. https://t.co/v82iIiHRNw
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Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Cultural Selection
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world https://t.co/8H7N9D832n via @AJEnglish
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Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) "Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective" https://t.co/hUdXYqja1I via @OSFramework
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Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!
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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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. https://t.co/iyehWl6bvX 1/5
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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 https://t.co/OxrDrk6Zry
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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 : https://t.co/gWMPfU5Qwd
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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 : https://t.co/hO7gjHm2BT
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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
With his wife, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby transformed our understanding of human nature.
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Now at BlueSky @dansperber.bsky.social
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