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Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach
- D. Sperber
- Psychology, Sociology
- 1 June 1998
Preface. Introduction. 1. How to be a True Materialist in Anthropology. 2. Interpreting and Explaining Cultural Representations. 3. Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of… Expand
Relevance Theory *
- D. Wilson, D. Sperber
- 1999
This paper outlines the main assumptions of relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson 1985, 1995, 1998, 2002, Wilson & Sperber 2002), an inferential approach to pragmatics. Relevance theory is based on a… Expand
Relevance: Communication and Cognition
- D. Sperber, D. Wilson
- Psychology
- 6 March 1986
Preface to Second Edition. List of symbols. 1. Communication. 2. Inference. 3. Relevance. 4. Aspects of Verbal Communication. Postface. Notes to First Edition. Notes to Second Edition. Notes to… Expand
Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory
- H. Mercier, D. Sperber
- Psychology, Medicine
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- 29 March 2011
Abstract Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. However, much evidence shows that reasoning often leads to epistemic distortions and poor decisions.… Expand
The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations.
- D. Sperber
- Psychology
- 1 April 1994
Ten years ago, Jerry Fodor published The Modularity of Mind, a book that received much well-deserved attention. His target was the then-dominant view according to which there are no important… Expand
Linguistic form and relevance
- D. Wilson, D. Sperber
- Psychology
- 1993
© Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 2012. Introduction Our book Relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1986a) treats utterance interpretation as a two-phase process: a modular decoding phase is seen as providing… Expand
Attribution of Beliefs by 13-Month-Old Infants
- Luca Surian, Stefania Caldi, D. Sperber
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 July 2007
In two experiments, we investigated whether 13-month-old infants expect agents to behave in a way that is consistent with information to which they have been exposed. Infants watched animations in… Expand