Dan Sperber (born 20 June 1942 in Cagnes-sur-Mer) is a French social and cognitive scientist and philosopher. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of the social sciences. He has developed: an approach to cultural evolution known as the epidemiology of representations or cultural attraction theory as part of a naturalistic reconceptualization of the social; (with British philosopher and linguist Deirdre Wilson) relevance theory; (with French psychologist Hugo Mercier) the argumentative theory of reasoning. Sperber formerly Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is Professor in the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest.
DanSperber (born 20 June 1942 in Cagnes-sur-Mer) is a French social and cognitive scientist and philosopher. His most influential work has been in the...
understanding the interpretation of utterances. It was first proposed by DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson, and is used within cognitive linguistics and pragmatics...
Sperber, Dan; Wilson, Deirdre (1995). Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631198789. Wilson, Deirdre; Sperber, Dan (1981)...
in the development of Relevance Theory with French anthropologist DanSperber. This work has been especially influential in the Philosophy of Language...
Stephen Jay Gould who calls memetics a "meaningless metaphor". Philosopher DanSperber argues against memetics as a viable approach to cultural evolution because...
evaluated and the set of possible worlds within which it is true. In 1986, DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson drew attention to the central importance of relevance...
Segal Todd K. Shackelford Roger Shepard Irwin Silverman Peter K. Smith DanSperber Anthony Stevens Frank Sulloway Michael Tomasello Joshua Tybur Mark van...
53.3.03. Morton, John (January 1976). "'DanSperber and the anacondas': an ethnographic comment on Sperber's theory of symbolism". Journal of the Anthropological...
Schaller David P. Schmitt Nancy Segal Todd K. Shackelford John Skoyles DanSperber Donald Symons John Tooby Robert Trivers Mark van Vugt George C. Williams...
analyses the idea of 'implicature', as instigated in the previous work of DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson. Implicature may be divided into two categories: 'strong'...
predict, and understand the world. French social and cognitive scientists DanSperber and Hugo Mercier argue that, aside from these benefits, there could have...
semantics—including Grice himself, Stephen Schiffer, Jonathan Bennett, DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson, and Stephen Neale—have attempted to improve on it...
Levinson's presumptive meanings Jürgen Habermas's universal pragmatics DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson's relevance theory Dallin D. Oaks's Structural Ambiguity...
CA: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press. Bloch, Maurice & DanSperber (2002). "Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother's...
Pompidou in Paris (contributors include Umberto Eco, Jason Epstein, DanSperber and Theodore Zeldin). She has published numerous articles on social epistemology...
access knowledge within a culture: Dorothy Holland, A. Kimball Romney, DanSperber, Marc Swartz); with conflicting models within a culture (Naomi Quinn...
is concerned, music is useless." Scholars such as John D. Barrow and DanSperber have agreed, and the music psychologist Sandra Trehub noted that like...
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