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Session 1 Introduction

MARTIN KANOVSKÝ Culture and Mind Spring - 2010. Session 1 Introduction. Assessment. Assessment. 4 0 points : eight short (3-6 pp. ) written text s ( 8 x 5 ), 10 points : oral presentation 5 0 points : final written essay OR 5 0 points : oral exam. Assessment. A: 91 – 100

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Session 1 Introduction

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  1. MARTIN KANOVSKÝ Culture and Mind Spring - 2010 Session 1Introduction

  2. Assessment

  3. Assessment • 40 points:eight short (3-6 pp.) written texts (8 x 5), • 10 points:oral presentation • 50 points:final written essayOR • 50 points:oral exam

  4. Assessment • A: 91 – 100 • B: 81 – 90 • C: 73 – 80 • D: 66 – 72 • E: 60 – 65 • F: 0 – 59

  5. Organization of a session

  6. Organization of a session • Oral presentation (15 min.)

  7. Organization of a session • Oral presentation (15 min.) • Debate about the presentation (20 min.)

  8. Organization of a session • Oral presentation (15 min.) • Debate about the presentation (20 min.) • Teacher’s lecture (30 min.) + debate

  9. Organization of a session • Oral presentation (15 min.) • Debate about the presentation (20 min.) • Teacher’s lecture (30 min.) + debate • Break (5 min.)

  10. Organization of a session • Oral presentation (15 min.) • Debate about the presentation (20 min.) • Teacher’s lecture (30 min.) + debate • Break (5 min.) • Continuation of the debate (30 min.)

  11. Contents

  12. Contents • (2)Culture and Cognition 1: Ontology (12. 3.) • SPERBER. D. A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences. In Pierre Demeulenaere (ed.) Analytical sociology and social mechanisms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) – forthcoming

  13. Contents • (3) Culture and Cognition 2: Concepts (26.3.) • SPERBER, D., Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture, Proceedings of the British Academy 111/2001, s. 297-317.

  14. Contents • (4) Evolution and Culture (23. 4.) • a) HENRICH, J., HENRICH, N.: Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation. In: Cognitive Systems Research 7 (2006) 220–245 • b) BOYD, R., RICHERSON, P: Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Evolution of Social Institutions, In: Better than Conscious? Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications for Institutions. C. Engel and W. Singer eds, MIT Press, Cambridge. Pp 305-324, 2008

  15. Contents • (5) Dualism in Mind and Culture 1: Positive View (30. 4.) • BLOOM, P., Descartes’ baby: How child development explains what makes us human. Arrow Books, London (2004). 1st Chap.

  16. Contents • (6) Dualism in Mind and Culture 1: Negative View (7. 5.) • HODGE, M., Descartes’ Mistake: How Afterlife Beliefs Challenge the Assumption that Humans are Intuitive Cartesian Substance Dualists, Journal of Cognition and Culture 8, (2008) 387–415.

  17. Contents • (7) Moral reasoning 1: Good and Evil in Detail (14. 5.) • ZIMBARDO, P., A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil: Understanding How Good People Are Transformed into Perpetrators., Arthur Miller (Ed.). The social psychology of good and evil

  18. Contents • (8) Moral reasoning 2: Morality and Culture (21. 5.) • a) HAIDT, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science, 316, 998-1002. • b) SHWEDER, R. & HAIDT, J., The Future of Moral Psychology: Truth, Intuition, and the Pluralist Way. Psychological Science 4/6, (1993), s. 360-365

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