Evolution

 

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

Author's presentation of Explaining Culture (Unpublished - Written for a web list at the time, 1996).

(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)

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)

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)

(2001). An Evolutionary perspective on testimony and argumentation. Philosophical Topics. (2001). 29. 401-413. Version française  Le témoignage et l’argumentation dans une perspective évolutionniste. A paraître dans Raisons Pratiques

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 )

(2002) (With Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading. ( Mind and Language, 2002, 17. 3-23)

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

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

(2003) (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)

(2004) (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)  

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 .

(2005)  Sperber, Dan & Gloria Origgi. Pourquoi parler, comment comprendre ? In Jean-Marie Hombert, Ed. L'origine de l'homme, du langage et des langues. Fayard, Paris, 2005. 236-253

(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