University of Delaware
Program in Cognitive Science

International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition

Presession: February 17, 2005

Plenary sessions: February 18-19, 2005

The evolution of cognition and language are some of the remaining puzzles that face cognitive science. This workshop explores the issues of how and why cognitive abilities evolved. It includes presentations from the perspective of anthropology, cognitive ethology, engineering, philosophy, psychology, and more.

Speakers: 
Colin Allen (Indiana University) 
Michael Arbib (University of Southern California) 
Juliette Blevins (Max Planck Institute-Leipzig)
Josep Call (Max Planck Institute-Leipzig)
Dorothy Cheney (University of Pennsylvania) 
Antoni Gomila (University of Balearic Islands)
Philip Lieberman (Brown University) 
Daniel Povinelli (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
Dan Rich, Provost (University of Delaware)
Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania)
Tom Schoenemann (University of Pennsylvania)
 Charles Yang (Yale University)

Philip Lieberman (Brown University) will, unfortunately, not be able to attend but participate in the conference as conference call..

The workshop is free and open to public.  

Organizers: 
Fred Adams, Peter Cole, Anna Cuevas, William Idsardi, Irene Vogel

Graduate Assistants:
Yurie Hara, Sachie Kotani

Created by Yurie Hara.  Last updated on 02/18/2005