Dear all, The Philosophy of Psychology reading group will be meeting again this term on Thursdays at 11am in HPS, starting on Thursday 15th October. This term's theme is Generics & Psychological Essentialism; the list of readings for the term is below.
I hope to see many of you there. Best, Ali Week 2 - Sarah-Jane Leslie (2014), 'Carving up the social world with generics', in Lombrozo, Knobe & Nichols (eds) Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (OUP) Week 3 - Rachel Sterken (2015), 'Leslie on generics', Phil Stud 172, 2493-2512 Week 4 - Prasada, Khemlani, Leslie & Glucksberg (2013), 'Conceptual distinctions amongst generics', Cognition 126, 405-422 Week 5 - Andrei Cimpian & Erika Saloman (2014), 'The inherence heuristic: an intuitive means of making sense of the world, and a potential precursor to psychological essentialism' Behavioural and Brain Sciences 27, 461-527 (Target article & two commentaries of your choice) Week 6 - Susan Gelman (2003), The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought, chapter 10 'Unfinished Business' Week 7 - Susan Gelman (2003), The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought, chapter 11 'Why do we essentialise?' Week 8 - Michael Strevens (2000), 'The essentialist aspect of naive theories', Cognition 74, 149-175 -- Ali Boyle PhD Candidate in Philosophy Peterhouse, Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
