Texts in English in chronological order

(With Deirdre Wilson) Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences (In J. Dancy, J.Moravcsik & C. Taylor (eds) (1988) Human agency: Language, duty and value. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA: 77-101.)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Rhetoric and relevance. (In David Wellbery and John Bender eds. (1990) The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory , Practice. Stanford University Press, 140-155)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Linguistic form and relevance (In Lingua 90 (1993): 1-25).

Understanding verbal understanding. (In Jean Khalfa (ed.) What is Intelligence?Cambridge University Press (1994), 179-198.)

How do we communicate? (In John Brockman & Katinka Matson (eds) How things are: A science toolkit for the mind. New York: Morrow, 1995. 191-199)

Sperber, Dan, Francesco Cara, & Vittorio Girotto (1995). Relevance Theory explains the Selection Task. Cognition 57, 31-95.

Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic thought? (A historical curiosity - if that - published in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 8-2, (1996) 143-169. Revised (in 1980) English version of "Pourquoi les animaux parfaits, les hybrides et les monstres sont-ils bons à penser symboliquement?", L'Homme, XV (2) (1975) 5-24).

(with Deirdre Wilson) Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla) (In Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19:3 (1996). 530-532.)

Author's presentation of Explaining Culture (Unpublished - Written for a web list at the time, 1996).

Methodological individualism and cognitivism in the social sciences (Unpublished English version of Individualisme méthodologique et cognitivisme. (Dans: R. Boudon, F. Chazel & A. Bouvier (eds.) Cognition et sciences sociales. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France. (1997) 123-136.)

Intuitive and reflective beliefs. In Mind and Language 12 (1) (1997). 67-83.

(with Deirdre Wilson) Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences. In Multilingua 16 (1997): 145-51.

(with Deirdre Wilson) The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon (In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher (eds) Thought and language. CUP, Cambridge, 1998, 184-200).

(with Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics and time. (In Robyn Carston & Seiji Uchida (eds) Relevance Theory: Applications and implications. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998, 1-22).

(with Deirdre Wilson) Irony and relevance: A reply to Drs Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi. In Robyn Carston & Seiji Uchida (eds) 1998 Relevance theory: Applications and implications. John Benjamins, Amsterdam: 283-93.

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) Evolution, Cognition and Culture. In Robert Wilson & Frank Keil (eds) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999, pp.cxi-cxxxii)

Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective (in Dan Sperber ed. Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.117-137).

An objection to the memetic approach to culture (in Robert Aunger ed. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science. Oxford University Press, 2000. 163-173).

(With Gloria Origgi) Evolution, communication, and the proper function of language (A discussion of Millikan in the light of pragmatics and of the psychology of mindreading, in Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain eds., Evolution and the Human Mind: Language, Modularity and Social Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 140-169)

Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthopology 1999 -  Proceedings of the British Academy, 2001, 111, 297-317)

In Defense of massive modularity (in Dupoux, E.  Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler. 2002, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press. 47-57)

(With Vittorio Girotto, Markus Kemmelmeir and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. (Cognition 2001, 81, B69-B76) (in PDF format)

An Evolutionary perspective on testimony and argumentation. Philosophical Topics. (2001). 29. 401-413

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Guy Politzer) When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems. (Thinking & Reasoning , 2002, 8 (1) 1-20)

The future of writing (contribution to the virtual symposium text-e, 2002) (With Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading. ( Mind and Language, 2002, 17. 3-23)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Truthfulness and relevance Mind. (2002). 111. 583-632.

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Laure Carles) Truthfulness and relevance in telling the time (Mind and Language, vol 17, No 5, November 2002, pp 457-466.)

(With Maurice Bloch) Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions: The Mother's Brother controversy reconsidered Current Anthropology. 2002. 43 (4) 723-748.

(With Vittorio Girotto) Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby. Cognition (2002) 85 (3), 277-290 

(With Vittorio Girotto) Does the Selection task detect cheater detection? (in Fitness, J. & Sterelny, K. (Eds.), (2003) From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology, Monographs in Cognitive Science, Psychology Press. (PDF file)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Relevance Theory. In Horn, L.R. & Ward, G. (eds.) (2004) The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632. 

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. (2004) 8 (1) 40-46. 

(With Ira Noveck) Introduction. in  Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave (2004)

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance . in  Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave (2004)

Why rethink interdisciplinarity? Translation of the preceding. Text discussed in the virtual seminar "Rethinking interdisciplinarity" on www.interdisciplines.org (where the whole discussion is available)

Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture. To appear  in Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis (eds) Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation, Oxford UP (PDF file)  

Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive?  To appear in The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, & Stephen Stich .

The Guru Effect.  (manuscript 2005)

(2006) Why a deep understanding of cultural evolution is incompatible with shallow psychology. (in Nick Enfield and Stephen Levinson (eds.) Roots of Human Sociality, 431-449) (2006)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics. To appear in F. Jackson and M. Smith eds., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language)

Sperber, Dan & Nicolas Claidière (2006) Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge. Biological Theory, Winter 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1: 20-

(With Lawrence Hirschfeld) Culture and modularity. (To appear in The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition, Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich eds).  

Ira Noveck & Dan Sperber (In press) The why and how of experimental pragmatics: The case of ‘scalar inferences’. To appear in Noel Burton-Roberts (ed) Advances in Pragmatics. Palgrave

Luca Surian, Stefania Caldi and Dan Sperber (in press) Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants To appear in Psychological Science

(forthcoming) Claidière, Nicolas & and Sperber, Dan (in press). The role of attraction in cultural evolution (Reply to J. Henrich and R. Boyd, “On modeling cognition and culture”, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2 (2), 2002). To appear in Journal of Cognition and Culture

(forthcoming) Sperber, Dan & Nicolas Claidière. Defining and explaining culture (comments on Richerson and Boyd, Not by genes alone). To appear in Biology and Philosophy

(forthcoming) Rudiments of cognitive rhetoric. Of historical interest maybe. First English translation of : Dan Sperber (1975) Rudiments de rhétorique cognitive, Poétique: Revue de Théorie et d'Analyse Littéraire (23) 389-415. To appear in Rhetoric Society Quarterly