dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social

Philosophy, cognitive science, social sciences

[Laurent Cesari @CesariLaurent1]

Nathan Sperber, The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural?, NLR 148, July–August 2024 https://t.co/Dzb5d6r7GJ via @newleftreview

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and here is the list of contributors to https://t.co/pN2y5q2AlW

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

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. https://t.co/JH4qL7tYSg

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

Helena Miton's tought-provoking Aeon essay on how cultural knowledge is archived in human bodies
https://t.co/hqK4iYSlts

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Read:
https://t.co/gwbb4845EH

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

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

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

In the just lauched Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (https://t.co/dxB0W9GlzB), our (Nicolas Claidière and me) short article on Cultural Attractors https://t.co/w4aErb5Mgp

[Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto]

Tim Lewens "Cultural selection" - free to downloads for two weeks.
https://t.co/v82iIiHRNw

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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world https://t.co/8H7N9D832n via @AJEnglish

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) "Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective"
https://t.co/hUdXYqja1I via @OSFramework

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!

[Denis Tatone @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! 🐒♥️

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[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

@RajThamotheram @danwilliamsphil @hugoreasoning @Sacha_Altay I don't remember saying these things. I don't think I did.

[Mathieu Charbonneau @matcharbonneau1]

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

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

Marchons contre la loi immigration le 21 janvier
https://t.co/OxrDrk6Zry

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Watch “for Refaat Alareer” on #Vimeo https://t.co/RgLymhGyNs

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Need a Bluesky code? DM me

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

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."

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

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

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

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

[David Pinsof @DavidPinsof]

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. https://t.co/n1A022q7KZ