The Origins of Social
Cognition
Graduate seminar
Bence Nanay
Spring
2013
Room
C-205
Thursday,
4pm-10pm, on the following days:
February
21 (guest speaker: Josef Perner)
March
21 (guest speaker: Joelle Proust)
April
25 (guest speaker: Corrado Sinigaglia)
May
2 (guest speaker: Stephen Butterfill)
May
23 (guest speaker: Tyler Burge)
3000 word paper at the end of the semester: 50%
February
21:
Wimmer and Perner, J. 1983 Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition 13: 103-128.
Onishi, K.H., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Do 15-month-old infants understand
false beliefs? Science, 308, 255-258.
Perner, J., & Ruffman, T. 2005 Infants' insight into the mind: How deep? Science 308: 214-216.
March
21:
Proust, Joelle 1999 Can nonhuman primates read minds? Philosophical Topics, vol. 27; 203-232.
Kovacs, Agnes et al. 2010 The Social Sense: Susceptibility to Others' Beliefs in Human Infants. Science 330, 1830-1834.
April
25:
Butterfill, Stephen and Corrado Sinigaglia in press
Intention and motor representation in purposive action. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Costantini, Marcello, Giorgia Committeri and Corrado Sinigaglia 2011 Ready Both to Your and to My Hands: Mapping
the Action Space of Others. PLoS One Volume 6, Issue
4, e17923.
May
2:
Apperly, I. A., & Butterfill, S. A. (2009). Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states? Psychological Review, 116(4), 953-970.
Stephen
Butterfill and Ian Apperly:
How to construct a minimal Theory of Mind? Mind
& Language, forthcoming.
May
23:
Tyler
Burge: Origins of Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 2 and
Chapter 3.