Month: September 2017

Fall 2017

  • ECOM will host a talk by Katherine McAuliffe (Psychology, Boston College) on December 8, 4-5:30PM in the UCHI Conference Room (Babbidge 4/209), titled “The Origins of our Sense of Fairness”. Click here for more information and an abstract.
  • The ECOM Reading Group is meeting this semester on Fridays 11:00AM-12:15PM in Manchester Hall 227. We will meet on 9/29, 10/20, 11/17 and 12/8. Please contact Nathan Kellen for readings and more information.
  • Events of interest: BOLD Brownbags, 9-10AM in BOUS 162. See especially talks by Ross Buck on 9/20 on emotional and cognitive empathy, and ECOM member Charles Davis on 10/25 on memory/episodic contexts and abstract/concrete concepts.
  • ECOM Director Dorit Bar-On will participate in a roundtable at the Inaugural Cultural Evolution conference in Jena, Germany on September 13-15, alongside Kim Sterelny, Dan Sperber, Celia Heyes and others.
  • ECOM member Jenelle Salisbury will present her paper “First Person Authority and Immunity to Error in the Craniopagus Case” at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Conference on “The Self” in October. Congrats Jenelle!
  • ECOM member Ryo Tanaka will present his paper “Content Externalism, Neo-Expressivism, and Inter-Personal Mental Ascription” at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Conference on “The Self” in October. Congrats Ryo!
  • ECOM Director Dorit Bar-On will be the keynote speaker at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Conference on “The Self” in October.