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First Project Conference: Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemology

SEPTEMBER 11 - 13, 2009. HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

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The AHRC Culture and the Mind project is a major new five-year interdisciplinary research project based in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield. The project is funded primarily through a major research grant of £538,000 from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (to the project director, Stephen Laurence).

The project will bring together top scholars in a broad range of disciplines-including anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, economics, history, neuroscience, and philosophy-to investigate the philosophical consequences of the impact of culture on the mind and the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of culture. (See also the related AHRC Innateness and the Structure of the Mind project).

The AHRC Culture and the Mind Project will be organized around three subprojects.

  1. Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics (2006-2009)
  2. Norms & Moral Psychology (2007-2010)
  3. Artefacts & Material Culture (2008-2011)

Each subproject will involve a number of workshops and philosophically informed anthropological fieldwork, and will culminate in a major international conference that will be open to the public.


Project Fieldsites

Amazonian Ecuador Belém, Brazil Western Ukraine Lesotho Kenya East Africa Tanzania Central Madagascar Central India New Ireland, New Guinea Fiji Faroe Islands China Fieldsite Western Australia Fieldsite Bolivia Fieldsite Fieldsite map

Funding

This project is sponsored by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council with additional funding provided by the University of Sheffield Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies and the Rutgers University Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition.