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.
- Folk Psychology & Folk Epistemics (2006-2009)
- Norms & Moral Psychology (2007-2010)
- 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
- BRAZIL Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Emma Cohen
- CHINA Fieldsite - Primary Site Researcher Jianxin Wang
- ECUADOR Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Clark Barrett
- EAST AFRICA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Pierre Lienard
- FAROE ISLANDS Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Richard McElreath
- FIJI Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Joseph Henrich
- INDIA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Peggy Froerer
- KENYA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Tanya Broesch
- LESOTHO Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Joel Mort
- MADAGASCAR Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Maurice Bloch
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Alexander Bolyanatz
- TANZANIA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Joel Mort
- UKRAINE Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Martin Kanovsky
- WESTERN AUSTRALIA Fieidsite — Primary Site Researcher Brooke Scelza
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.