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The Causes of Religion: Templeton Research Lectures on Religion and Science with Dan Sperber

Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Va

April 7-April 10, 2008

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Dan Sperber, Research Professor at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, is the 2007-2008 Annual Fellow for the Templeton Research Lectures presented by the Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Religion and Culture Seminar in Religion and Science. Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. He is the author of Rethinking Symbolism ( Cambridge UP 1975), On Anthropological Knowledge (Cambridge UP 1985), Explaining Culture (Blackwell 1996). In these three books, He has developed a naturalistic approach to culture under the name of "epidemiology of representations".

Dan Sperber is also the co-author, with Deirdre Wilson (Department of Linguistics, University College , London ) of Relevance: Communication and Cognition (Blackwell 1986 - Second Revised Edition, 1995). Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication known as "Relevance Theory". Both the epidemiology of representations and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial. Please join us at 4:10 in the Moore Room of the Law School building for the lecture with a reception to follow. Parking will be provided for those arriving from off campus.

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  Tickets: Free Admission

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  April 7-April 10, 2008

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  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
  All lectures begin at 4:10 pm. A reception will follow.

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  Vanderbilit University Law School Moore Room

  Nashville, TN

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