Dan Sperber in Aboagora 2011

Dan Sperber's lecture "Culture and Minds" in Aboagora in Turku, Finland, on 17 August 2011. For further information, see http://www.aboagora.fi

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. He holds an emeritus research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, a recurrent visiting professorship at the Department of Philosophy of the Central European University in Budapest, and is the director of the International Cognition and Culture Institute. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics. He is the author numerous articles in anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and psychology and of three books: Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge UP 1975), On Anthropological Knowledge (Cambridge UP 1985), and Explaining Culture (Blackwell 1996). Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication known as 'Relevance Theory'. Both the epidemiology of representations and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial.

Aboagora is a joint effort by the Turku Music Festival, the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku and the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, Åbo Akademi University.

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• Aboagora
• University of Turku
• Åbo Akademi University
• Turku Music Festival
• cognition
• Cognition
• culture
• cultural studies
• cultural history
• Turku
• Finland