Fwd: [sfl-large] Workshop : Core Knowledge, Language and Culture

[Sophie Wauquier]

http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2012/493/info.php3?wsid=493

*Core Knowledge, Language and Culture *


      from 29 May 2012 through 1 Jun 2012

This workshop will address the relation between core knowledge, 
language, music, and culture, with a view to assessing the current 
understanding of these questions for a theory of the mind/brain. We hope 
that the participants -- scholars from fields as diverse as psychology, 
linguistics, neurobiology, neurolinguistics, music cognition, and 
cognitive anthropology -- will contribute to defining a research program 
that may address both new and as yet unresolved research questions in 
this area.

To give one example, it is puzzling that a notion such as /recursion/ 
(and the cognate notions of /Merge///or/successor function/) seems to 
play a role in apparently unrelated domains such as number/arithmetics, 
language, and music. Both linguistic and nonlinguistic quantification 
seem to be built on shared primitives. Such issues are often relatedto 
the (dis)similarity or (dis)continuity between the animal and the human 
domain. The question arises whether core knowledge of number constitutes 
an intriguing exception to the discontinuity thesis, with potential 
ramifications for the representation of time and space in the spirit of 
Kant.

The organizers of the workshop will be pleased to facilitate an open and 
fruitful debate on these topics. We believe that such a dialogue is 
crucial to gain further insight into notions such as knowledge, 
language, and culture. We remain at your disposal to facilitate this 
dialogue both before and during the Workshop, and look forward to 
welcoming you at the Lorentz Center.



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Sophie Wauquier
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Professeur
Directrice de l'UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage"
Université Paris 8 / CNRS

Phone mobile : 06 84 58 22 79
Phone : (33) 01 40 25 10 40

mail :sophie.wauquier at orange.fr




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