Programme

Conference: Norms and moral psychology

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Friday 15 April 2011

11am to 1pm

Coffee and registration

1 to 2pm

Ori Friedman (Psychology, University of Waterloo)
Principle-based reasoning about ownership in young children

2 to 2.30pm

Open discussion

45-minute break with coffee

3.15 to 4.15pm

Robert Layton (Anthropology, Durham University)
Continuity and innovation in the transmission of traditional Chinese culture

4.15 to 4.45pm

Open discussion

30-minute break with coffee

5.15 to 6.15pm

Susan Gelman (Psychology, University of Michigan)
The non-obvious basis of ownership: Tracing the history and value of owned objects

6.15 to 6.45pm

Open discussion

Saturday 16 April 2011

9.30 to 10.30am

Gergely Csibra (Psychology, Central European University)
Cognitive resources for learning about artefacts in human infants

10.30 to 11am

Open discussion

30-minute break with coffee

11.30am to 12.30pm

Nurit Bird-David (Anthropology, University of Haifa)
Setting or mind-setting? A study of a South Indian hunter-gatherer camp

12.30 to 1pm

Open discussion

Two-hour lunch break - lunch not provided

3 to 4pm

Emma Flynn (Psychology, Durham University)
Investigating social learning and cultural transmission in young children

4 to 4.30pm

Open discussion

30-minute break with coffee

5 to 6pm

Barbara Malt (Psychology, Lehigh University)
Naming artefacts: Patterns and processes

6 to 6.30pm

Open discussion

Sunday 17 April 2011

9.30 to 10.30am

Aimee Plourde (Philosophy, University of Sheffield)
Artefacts as signals of strength in political competition; a case study of landscape monuments from the late Bronze Age Anatolian Plateau

10.30 to 11am

Open discussion

30-minute break with coffee

11.30am to 12.30pm

Jamie Tehrani (Anthropology, Durham University)
Phylogenetic approaches to the transmission of material culture: Current trends and future directions

12.30 to 1pm

Open discussion

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