Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences


Upcoming Events

Dana K. Nelkin
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
January 12, 2007
Location/Time: 4:00 pm, 146 Straub Hall

"Do we have a coherent set of intuitions about moral responsibility?"


Robert Quinlan
Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University
February 1 , 2007
Location/Time: 4:00 pm, TBA


"Environmental risk, life history development, and cultural models "

There will also be a brownbag discussion
Friday, February 2, 2007
Location/Time: 1:15 pm, 143 Straub Hall

Past Events

Ian Penton-Voak
Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
October 19, 2006
Location/Time: 4:00 pm, 146 Straub Hall
(Co sponsored with the AAGS)

"Evidence for 'special design' in human face preferences"

There will also be a brownbag discussion
Friday, October 20, 2006
Location/Time: 1:00, 143 Straub Hall

Agustin Fuentes
Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
May 15, 2006
Location/Time: 4:00 pm, Gerlinger Lounge
(Co sponsored with the AAGS)

"It's Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution "

There will also be a brownbag lunch with the Evolution Focus Group
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Location/Time: Noon-1:30, 256 Straub Hall

Donald Grayson
Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle
April 21, 2006
5:30 pm
Knight Library, 174
(Co sponsored with the Museum of Natural and Cultural History)

"Sloths, Pikas, and Preccaries: Ice Age Extinctions in the Great Basin "

Bruce Winterhalder
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
April 14, 2006
4:00 p.m.
MacKenzie Hall 240A

"Impediments to the Origins of Agriculture as a Source of Insights About Prehistoric Economics "
(Co sponsored with the AAGS)

Minoru Karasawa
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kobe, Japan
January 26, 2006
Noon Brownbag Talk
Straub 156

" Language in Trait Inferences: Different Roles of Verbs and Adjectives across Cultures"

Joseph Carroll
Professor of English, University of Missouri, St. Louis
January 26, 2006
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

"Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature: Toward a New Humanities"

Habib Ghassemzadeh
Professor, & Director of Clinical Psychology Center
Department of Psychiatry
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
October 26, 2005
Noon, 143 Straub Hall

"Cultural Aspects of Metaphor: The Case of Persian Classic Poetry"

Fred Attneave Memorial Lecture
Earl K. Miller
Picower Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
November 12, 2004
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
146 Straub Hall

Brett Cooke
Russian Department, Texas A & M University
October 28, 2004
Cognitive Science Colloquium Speaker
4:00 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room

Rob Kurzban
October 28, 2004
Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania
Cognitive Science Colloquium Speaker
4:00 pm, 146 Straub Hall

Ellen Dissanayake
May 6, 2004
Cressman Lecturer for the Oregon Humanities Center
7:30 pm

May 7, 2004
Cognitive Science Colloquium Speaker
4:00 pm, 146 Straub Hall

Richard Byrne
Department of Psychology
University of St. Andrews

April 23-May 2, 2004

David Wilson
Departments of Biology and Anthropology
Binghamton University

January 9, 2004
4:00 pm
146 Straub Hall

Geoffrey Miller
Department of Psychology
University of New Mexico

December 8, 2003
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
146 Straub Hall

Fred Attneave Memorial Lecture
Zenon Pylyshyn
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University

November 3, 2003
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
146 Straub Hall

Alfred Mele
October 17, 2003
Department of Philosophy
Florida State University
4:00 pm, 146 Straub Hall

Other Minds Conference
September 27-28, 2003

Michael Posner Retirement Event
May 2-3, 2003

Cognitive Science Colloquium Speaker
Bibb Latané
March 17, 2003

Essentialism Conference
February 28 and March 1, 2003

 

 

For more information, please contact:

    Vonda Evans, Institute Secretary (vevans@uoregon.edu)
    Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences
    1227 University of Oregon
    Eugene, OR 97403-1227

    PHONE (541) 346-4941
    FAX (541) 346-4914


 


 


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