Art & Science; Comparative Cognitive Studies
February 14, 2000
- Speaker: James Elkins (Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Art Institute of Chicago): "The Unrepresentable: The Concept of the Sublime in Painting, Astrophysics, Genetics, & Particle Physics"
Co-sponsor: Department of Art and Art History
February 24, 2000
- Speaker: Michael Tomasello (Co-Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology): "The Human Adaptation for Culture"
February 25, 2000
Colloquium: "Do Chimpanzees Know What Others Know?"
- Michael Tomasello (Co-Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
- Commentators: Daniel McShea (Biology, Duke); Christine Drea (Biological Anthropology/Anatomy, Duke)
April 21, 2000
- Speaker: Marc Hauser (Psychology and Neuroscience, Harvard): "To Understand the Human Mind, Don't Study Humans: 3 Problems"
April 22, 2000
Colloquium: "What Animals Really Think"
- Marc Hauser (Psychology and Neuroscience, Harvard)
- Commentators: John Staddon (Psychology, Duke), Güven Güzeldere (Philosophy, Duke), Matt Cartmill (Biological Anthropology/Anatomy, Duke)