Reading

Week 1: What is language? (Background)
  1. Pinker: Language Acquisition
Week 2:
  1. Cosmides & Tooby: Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer
  2. Dunbar: The Social Brain Hypothesis
Week 3:
  1. Lehman, et. al: Psychology and Culture
  2. de Waal: Chimpanzee Politics
  3. Heylighen: Memes and the Evolution of Cooperation
    This file contains two articles. The first is an review of some of the material we covered during the second class. The second article introduces the notion of "memes" and the role they might play in shaping social interactions.
Week 4:
  1. Grice: Logic and Conversation
  2. Masip, et al.: Defining Deception
  3. Frankfurt: On Bullshit
Week 5:
  1. Wilson & Sperber: Linguistic Form and Relevance
  2. Wilson & Sperber: Relevance Theory
Week 6:
  1. Lakoff: Simple Framing
  2. Rockridge Institute: The Strategic Framing Overview
  3. Pinker: Block That Metaphor!
Week 7:
  1. Kenny: Identity Politics
  2. Mandle: How Political is the Personal?
Week 8:
  1. tba
Week 9:
  1. tba
Week 10:
  1. tba


Bonus Readings:
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