ECOM’s inaugural UConn workshop, “What’s the Point? Pointing and Gestural Communication” was a massive success! Thanks to everyone who attended and participated, and to the UConn Humanities Institute and the UConn Cognitive Science Program for funding. Read a UConn The Daily Campus article about Professor Laurie Santos’ recent visit to ECOM to kick off our […]

ECOM hosted a talk by Ulrich Stegmann (Philosophy, Aberdeen) on December 12, 4PM: “Animal Signals, Acquisition Conditions and the Explanation of Behavior”. Click herefor more information and an abstract. ECOM hosted its 3rd UConn workshop on December 2-3, titled What’s in a Word? The workshop explored the theoretical status of words in connection with issues […]

ECOM members, Dorit Bar-On and Jordan Ochs, gave a joint paper titled “The Role of Inner Speech in Self-Knowledge” at a conference on Transparency and Self-knowledge at the University of Oviedo, Spain in June. ECOM hosted its 4th UConn workshop/conference on May 11-13, titled “Human and Nonhuman Animals: Minds and Morals”. The conference brought together researchers […]