Reading Group

Romain Bourdoncle

15/10/2024

Meeting schedule: Once a month, starting October 31, 2024.
Location: Collège de France.

For questions, contact: romain.bourdoncle@college-de-france.fr

Information structure

Session 1

  1. Krifka, Manfred (2007). Basic Notions of Information Structure. In Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure, 6, 13-55. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
  2. Vallduví, Enric (1992). The Informational Component. New York: Garland Publishing.
  3. Glanzberg, Michael (forthcoming). Information Structure for Philosophers. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language, ed. E. Lepore and U. Stojnić, Oxford University Press.

Session 2

  1. Reihnart, Tanya (1981). Pragmatics and Linguistics: An Analysis of Sentence Topics. Philosophica 27.
  2. Gundel, Jeanette K. & Fretheim, Thorstein (2004). Topic and Focus. In The Handbook of Pragmatics, eds. Laurence R. Horn & Gregory Ward, 175-196. Oxford: Blackwell.

Metacognition & Mindreading

Session 3

  1. Carruthers, Peter (2009). How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, 121-138.
  2. Carruthers, Peter (2011). The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
  3. Carruthers, Peter (2015). The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

Core Knowledge

Session 4

  1. Spelke, Elizabeth (2024). Précis of What Babies Know. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e120.

Philosophy of the Human Sciences

Session 5

These readings were inspired by a blog post by Daniel Nettle: Margo Wilson, and how to do evolutionary human science.

  1. Wilson, Margo & Daly, Martin (1997). Life Expectancy, Economic Inequality, Homicide, and Reproductive Timing in Chicago Neighbourhoods. British Medical Journal, 314, 1271–1274.
  2. Daly, Martin & Wilson, Margo (1997). Crime and Conflict: Homicide in Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. Crime & Justice, 22, 51–100.
  3. Daly, Martin & Wilson, Margo (2001). Risk-taking, Intrasexual Competition, and Homicide. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 47, 1–36.