Day Three Symposium on Origins! Catch some live stream or cable.
Moderator: Roger Bingham (Salk Institute)
9:30 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Session 4: Consciousness, complex cognition, and language to Culture, cooperation, morality and institutions
Panel 1: Consciousness, complex cognition, and language
Steven Pinker (language and cognition)
V. S. Ramachandran (neuroscience and cognition)
Patricia Churchland (philosophy of consciousness)
Robert Seyfarth (theory of mind in primates)
Jerrold Seigel (The idea of Self)
Sue Rosser (Gender consciousness)
10:40 – 10:50 a.m. Break
Panel 2: Human Uniqueness
Kim Hill: What makes humans unique?
Rob Boyd: What are the unique features of human cultural capacity that allow individually learned innovations to “stick” and be transmitted
Robert Kurzban: Some have said that humans uniqueness lies in our capacity for large scale cooperation and moral behavior. What are the origins of these human traits?
Panel 3: Culture and morality
Polly Wiessner: How did our ancestors maintain significant cooperative ties across much larger stretches of space and time than any other organism?
Jonathan Haidt: What is morality, and why does it vary?
A.C. Grayling: What does Philosophy have to contribute to a more “human” understanding of the implications of evolution by natural selection?
11:50 a.m. – 12 p.m. Break
Panel 4: The State, social norms, and Institutions
Michael Macy.: what are the origin and impact of social norms on individual and collective outcomes?
Margaret Levi: what is the origin of the state, and what are the causes of its failure?
Peter Bearman: what are the origin and impact of social networks on individual and collective outcomes?
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