Human Nature, Human Mind

Upcoming Events in this Series:

December 11-15, 2011 – Conference on “Psycho-Ontology”
Conference Homepage: www.shalemevents.org/psycho-ontology
 
December 11: Public Lecture by Steven Pinker on “The Better Angels of Our Nature: How Violence has Declined”
8pm, Rebecca Crown Auditorium, The Jerusalem Theatre
For more information see www.shalemevents.org/pinker
 
December 13: Public Lecture by Steven Pinker on “The Language Instinct” (with simultaneous translation into Hebrew)
8pm, Merkaz Enav, Tel Aviv
For more information see www.shalemevents.org/pinker


Previous Events in this Series:

December 14-17, 2009 - Conference on “The Human Nature Tradition in Anglo-Scottish Philosophy: Its History and Future Prospects”
Click here for video of remarks of conference organizers
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October 12-13, 2009 – Visiting Scholar: Eric Schliesser, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Seminar: “Hume’s Invention of Philosophical Traditions”
Public Lecture: “Spinoza and Hume: Two Critiques of Natural Science”
 
July 13-14, 2009 – Visiting Scholar: Tamar Szabo Gendler, Philosophy, Yale University.
Seminar: “On the Regulation of Habit: from Aristotle to Hume and Beyond“
Public Lecture: “What Philosophers Got Right about Human Nature“
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May 18-19, 2009 – Visiting Scholar: Alfred I. Tauber, Philosophy and Medicine, Boston University.
Seminar: “Freud, Brentano, and the Quandary of Psychic Cause“
Public Lecture: “Freud the Reluctant Philosopher“
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