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Dr. Nima Mussavifard (Berlin School of Mind and Brain / Institut für Philosophie, HU Berlin)
Venue: Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Sophienstraße 22, 10178 Berlin, room 0.03 (entrance via backyard)
MIND
Our communication is viewed by many philosophers as a defining feature of humans, contributing to its success as a species. While many animals have evolved sophisticated communicative systems, only humans use open-ended means of communication to convey unlimited messages. This course will draw on insights from philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science to help us understand the unique properties of human communication that characterize its flexibility. We will discuss several theories that have been proposed to account for the cognitive underpinnings of open-ended communication. Specifically, this course will review the challenges and alternatives to the dominant Gricean proposal that communication involves the expression and attribution of intentions. |
