Colloquium

There has been a rise in interest in the last few years in empirically informed discussion of philosophical issues related to memory. Classical conceptual analysis and the old-fashioned naïve realist view of remembering as a direct relation to past events, which can be traced back to Thomas Reid's work, fell out of favour. In this talk, I will offer two arguments for this old school view and point out that it fares better than alternatives in dealing with issues of modal force and of externalist referential semantics.

What makes human cognition unique? In this talk, I revisit an ambition already present in Wundt’s vision of psychology: to understand the human mind through coordinated evidence from child development, cross-cultural variation, and species comparison. I argue that uniquely human cognition cannot be understood from any one of these perspectives alone. A Comparative Cultural Psychology […]