Conference on Human Nature and Natural Language, University of London

[Shalom Lappin]

HUMAN NATURE AND LANGUAGE

ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

WHEN: June 5th 2008, from 10:00am to 5:50pm

WHERE: Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, Room NG16,  
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

SPEAKERS: Gary Marcus, Heather Van Der Lely, Shalom Lappin, Matteo Mameli

PROGRAMME:

10:00 Registration

10:20-11:30 Shalom Lappin (KCL), "Alternatives to Strong Linguistic Nativism"

11:30-11:50 Coffee Break

11:50-1:00 Heather Van Der Lely (UCL), "Specific Language Impairment  
in Children: Living without a Language Instinct?"

1:00-2:30 Lunch Break

2:30-3:40 Gary Marcus (NYU), "Language as Kludge"

3:40-4:00 Tea Break

4:00-5:10 Matteo Mameli (KCL), "Innateness: Clutter or Cluster?"

5:15-5:45 Discussion. Panelists: David Papineau (KCL), Gabriel Segal  
(KCL), Sarah Patterson (Birkbeck), Barry Smith (Birkbeck).


Attendance is free. Bring and/or buy your own lunch. For more  
information please write to matteo.mameli at kcl.ac.uk