Culture and society

 Leach et les anthropologues . (1967) Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, XLIII, 123-142.

Contre certains a priori anthropologiques. In E. Morin and M. Piatelli-Palmarini (éds.), (1974) L'unité de l'homme (Paris, Le Seuil, ) 491-512.

Remarques anthropologiques sur le relativisme moral. (In Jean-Pierre Changeux (ed.), Fondements naturels de l'éthique, Paris: Odile Jacob. (1993) 319-334. - no English version)

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).

Author's presentation of Explaining Culture (Unpublished - Written for a web list at the time, 1996).

Individualisme méthodologique et cognitivisme. (Dans: R. Boudon, F. Chazel & A. Bouvier (eds.) Cognition et sciences sociales. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France. (1997) 123-136.)

Methodological individualism and cognitivism in the social sciences (Unpublished English version of the above)

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.

Voir autrement la culture (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 3, pp. 91-105) 

Pour un utopisme raisonné (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 5, pp. 169-187)

(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, to appear in Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain eds., Evolution and the Human Mind: Language, Modularity and Social Cognition. Cambridge University Press)

Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthopology 1999 - To appear in the Proceedings of the British Academy)

Quelques outils conceptuels pour une science naturelle de la société et de la culture (Traduction de l'anglais par Louis Quéré de: Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture - Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthopology 1999. Paru dans Raisons Pratiques, 2000)

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

L'individuel sous influence du collectif (Le titre n'est pas de moi - l'article porte  sur cognition, mémoire et culture - il remplace un texte précédent intitulé "cognition, mémoire et culture") (La Recherche, 344, juillet-août 2001, pp. 32-35)

The future of writing (contribution to the virtual symposium text-e, 2002)
- L'avenir de l'écriture
(contribution au colloque virtuel text-e, 2002 - version française de The future of writing). Published in Text-e: Le texte à l'heure de l'Internet (Gloria Origgi & Noga Arikha eds.) Paris: Bibliothèque Publique d'Information. 177-190
- Il futuro della scrittura
(contributo al convegno virtuale text-e, 2002 - Traduzione di The future of writing )

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

Why rethink interdisciplinarity? (2003) Text discussed in the virtual seminar "Rethinking interdisciplinarity" on www.interdisciplines.org (where the whole discussion is available)  - Pourquoi repenser l'interdisciplinarité? Version française du précédent. Texte discuté dans le cadre du séminaire virtuel "Repenser l'interdisciplinarité" à  www.interdisciplines.org (où l'intégralité de la discussion est en ligne) 

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

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)

The Guru Effect.  (2005, manuscript)

(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)

Sperber, Dan & Nicolas Claidière (2006) Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge. Biological Theory, Winter 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1: 20-22.

(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). 

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

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